Advise on how and where to find bass Part 2

[FloridaBassAssassn]

The more often you can put more then one type of cover together the better chance it might hold some fish. Next thing to the right is a pile of rocks in deeper water. Bass will seek out rocks because crawfish like rocks and bass love crayfish. Any good boulder pile will hold some big fish at some time or another. This is a good mid-day type of place to fish when the sun is high and bass are deep. Next is a shallow weedy hump out in the middle of the lake. Places like this are good bass habitat as long as the water nearby is deep enough for the fish to feel safe. One thing you don’t want to overlook is manmade structure, such as an old car body on the bottom, or just a big tire. Rock walls and jetties are also good spots. Possibly the best manmade structures that hold fish though are boat docks. Not all docks hold fish though, you want to seek out the ones that are made from floating logs and the closer to the water the better. If you can combine a dock with some weeds under it and maybe a patch of lily pads next to it. You’ve got a prime spot. Don’t waste time on metal docks as they rarely if ever hold fish. Any dock that is very low to the water can hold fish though. The next piece of structure on the drawing shows a patch of lily pads with an inside and outside edge. Look for big bass on the outside edge in the summertime and in early spring. Bass will be on the inside edge to the bank in the spring when the fish are spawning, if the bottom is not to muddy. Bass need a sand or gravel bottom to spawn in. They will scoop out a shallow bowl in the gravel about 18� to 24� around to lay their eggs in. Bass at this time of the year in my opinion should only be caught and released immediately, as other fish will move in and destroy a nest in a few minutes if left unguarded. I’m not a fan of any tournaments held at this time of the year that keep fish in a livewell . I also am a firm believer in total catch and release for bass. I wish that all states would adopt a live release policy of all bass. If you were fishing a tournament it would be legal to have fish in the livewell, but other wise it would not. Ok, enough preaching . The last thing on the map is a reed patch on the far right bank. In late spring to mid summer bass can be found in the shallowest water on the lake, as long as it some type of cover. If it has more then one type of cover it can equal a fishing “bananza�.



This last drawing of lake structure shows flooded trees on the left with a stump field in front of it. A brush pile in deep water. An old creek bed with a steep bank on one side with a weed covered point that runs deep to shallow above it. Next is has a outside edge weed bed and a shallow point inside edge. It has a shallow flat with some short grass and gravel with a deadfall over it. Where do you think you would find fish in the early spring before the spawn? How about during the spawn and then after? Late fall? Winter? Learning to read the water and figuring out where the fish would be for that time of year and time of day is the most important part of becoming a successful bass fisherman. In general you would find fish on the outside weed edge in the early spring , up on the flat during the spawn and into the late summer in the evenings. Back out into deeper water on the stumps and sunken tree top, or brush piles for the cold month's. This will not hold true everywhere in the country but will help 95% of you find an catch more fish. The my sinking bait will catch bass shallow and deep. Fish it in the thickest cover you can find rigged weed less like I covered and get ready to catch some big ol hogs."

Anything missing here? Any comments are always welcome.
Tnx FNF