Largemouth Bass Fishing For Numbers Instead of Hogs – Sometimes It’s Fun
Sometimes just catching fish is the primary objective of the day, and landing a hog is not so important. One of the best ways to tie into a huge number of largemouth bass during the summer is to fish at dawn with some ultra light crankbaits and grubs. Smaller fish don’t hunt at night (because they’ll get eaten), and they don’t hunt during the day in the hot summer sun. Average-sized fish hunt about twenty minutes before day break and 30 minutes after. They like to catch any bait fish with poor vision off guard as the light changes. And these fish go on a feeding frenzy for a full hour, and then they shut completely off. The hotter the days are, the more wildly the fish feed, and the shorter the time frame during which the hunt is.
If you’ve never hit this feeding frenzy time period just right, and you happen to one of these summer days, you will think you went to bass heaven. It is really quite a fireworks of nature. The areas that you should target when fishing these early morning periods depends on whether you are fishing in moving water or ponds and lakes.
If you are fishing a moving body of water, then you want to find long shallow moderate current tail ends of pools. The fish will move out of the deep water and scavenge madly around the shallows using the current to disorient the bait fish and crayfish. You want to cast up and across the current, using jointed minnows and grubs. The fish will rip the rod out of your hands if you hit the morning right.
If you happen to fish a pond or lake, you want to fish parallel to the shorelines and hopefully run your lure right into the noses of some aggressive largemouth. Learn the many other bass fishing secrets that you can add to your fishing arsenal.
