Spawn Question

[basstech]

Hi all, quick question about where to find females. Here is the situation. For the last week have been catching tons of small males and a couple of bigger ones as well along spawning banks, haven't caught a female in nearly two weeks now and the males just really started making the beds over this last weekend. Where, and how would you go about finding the females and catching them? I have been seeing some suspended fish off the points but if they are bass haven't been able to get them to bite. Any suggestions? Thanks, Basstech.

[cassidyta]

Since the males have just started making beds, you are in a pre-spawn situation. I prefer to go with something big and slow moving when that happens. I will throw a large jerk bait towards the suspending females. I have had a lot of success with large fly rigged flukes. Letting them flutter down and twitching them. I usually try to trigger a reaction bite by bringing it right across their faces. If that does not work, I will drop shot in the general area of them. I always cast past them and ease the bait into their area.
Once they start moving closer to the beds, I will switch to something t-rigged and focus on first drop off from the beds.

[BassinID]

In this situation I find that I usually can catch females that are staged in a little deeper water, usually in the same perpendicular line as the males (as related to the bank). I have good luck whit a DT-10 cranked super slow in 8 to 12 feet, or with a football jig and craw trailer. In my area there are tuns of crayfish. If that doesn't work, just stay on the males and the females will be there in a week or two.

[basstech]

Thanks guys, I'll give your suggestions a try.

[bamabassman]

just wondering why ya want to get the females in particular? size?

[basstech]

yep, size, fishing local tournaments with a freind, we've done ok, haven't won any cash and I've gotten us on fish pretty consistantly so we've been finishing in the top 25% until the evening tourneys started. Been catching nothing but shorts untill last sunday, I had four keepers (15"), biggest being about 3.5 lbs. but every single one of them was a male (including all the shorts) and I get tired of going through a bag-o-plastics for dinks. The guys we fish against have been fishing this lake and these tourneys for 20 years(most of them), so if you haven't gotten caught a limit chances are you're not winning. Plus I've never done good with catching staging females and I am really tired of that.

[zooker]

pull off the bank the fat girls are there but it takes presistance to catch them.. look in the backs of the creeks. say water in the 2-3 foot depth.. the dinks your catchin are in 18-24 inches of water the fat chicks are UNDER your boat..location is easy.. look for a ditch or the creek channle.. way in the back of the creek aint got to be much 6-8" differance is all it takes..


zooker

[bamabassman]

zooker beat me to it. do what he says, the gals are there. waiting for the MAN to finish building the house. then she'll go in and re-arrange the funiture,lol.

[MrPhotographer06]

they are there.. and it takes some agrivation to get them to bite.. but stay with it, eventually they'll bite.. i spent like an hour after mine.

[zooker]

now i gots me a trick to catch bed lock jawed bass. but absolutly refuse to share it..

zooker

[MallenManson]

Who remembers the link to that spawning article?
Lots of good info in there. According to the article, the female is roughly 20' away in deeper water, and apparently, the male is generaly lookin right at her

[MallenManson]

Originally Posted by zooker

now i gots me a trick to catch bed lock jawed bass. but absolutly refuse to share it..

zooker

Dynamite? Or a bug zapper?

[cassidyta]

This link?



Highlight and copy the entire line shown below:
http://www.thebass holes.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.31

Paste it into your browser, but BEFORE YOU HIT ENTER, delete the space between the "bass" and "holes" in the link. Then hit enter. That should get you there.

[CCbass]

I never really sight fish in the spring even if I see them on the beds. I fish the banks but around 6 to 8 feet down and catch good quality fish. Maybe the females are watching the males to see how good they are at house keeping.

[basstech]

Thanks Zook and the rest of you guys. I'm going out tonight after work so hopefully I can get them figured out. Worried that everything changed after this front that just rolled through though.

[MallenManson]

Originally Posted by cassidyta

This link?



Highlight and copy the entire line shown below:
http://www.thebass holes.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.31

Paste it into your browser, but BEFORE YOU HIT ENTER, delete the space between the "bass" and "holes" in the link. Then hit enter. That should get you there.

Bingo!!!!!!!!!!!