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Why Fish "Deep" in Summer

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delmuts Grand Master

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"That's why it's sometimes nice to fish out of a deep-V with a walk-thru. I'll be on a weedline wailing on fish with a jigworm or drop-shot, and bass boats buzz by me and think "Hrmph...walleye fisherman..." smile"

RK As soon as I read that; my thoughts went back to an old TV commercial of KVD putting up a party boat cut out to keep Bill Dance away!!! grin

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"That's why it's sometimes nice to fish out of a deep-V with a walk-thru. I'll be on a weedline wailing on fish with a jigworm or drop-shot, and bass boats buzz by me and think "Hrmph...walleye fisherman..." smile"

RK As soon as I read that; my thoughts went back to an old TV commercial of KVD putting up a party boat cut out to keep Bill Dance away!!! grin

That's a pretty funny commercial actually...

I've been known to sit down and pretended to be vertical jigging before. Not too convincing when I'm holding a baitcaster but I just hope they don't look too close.

Tried that trick once on Lake of the Woods muskie fishing. Didn't realize the guy I was trying to smokescreen was was a friend of mine in a new boat. He pulled right up to me and said "You know, you don't see a lot of guys jigging walleyes with a Garcia 7000..." Busted...

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Superduty Experienced

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Haha nice! I remember hearing back in the day some of the pro's would go practice in old beat up boats so no one knew it was them.

Guys still prefish out of walleye boats! Hooded sweatshirts were a clever attempt at disguises back in the day. The face/neck "buffs" do the trick today...

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Here's my take on the shallow deep thing-Bass love to eat bluegills so wherever you find gills you will find bass. 2'' of water? Yep. 20' of water? Sometimes, and everthing in between. They need structure to ambush those gills-the biggest bass in a lake control the best structure ( course a musky might bump them out and that could be why you see big scars on big bass on musky lakes)

Sometimes the best structure is shallow sometimes deep. If the structure is good it can be very hard to fish. On a couple of trips I have seen young guys standing in canoes throwing frogs way back under hanging branches they would work an area quick zip out and work another-they caught

BIG bass-you could find the depth of the deep weeds set your I-pilot thing and jig worm that depth,

do you think that is harder than what those guys in the canoe did? Sometimes people fish shallow but not shallow enough or not close enough to structure-working shallow is just as challenging as working deep-just sayin.

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Griggs Proficient

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Awesome conversation guys. I started fishing deep a couple of years ago. I've only run into a really active school a couple of times. That said, I always feel better out on main lake structure because I feel like the potential for some serious bass is there. I've been waiting for the deep bite all spring. I can only imagine it's here. How's everybody been doing out deep so far?

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Haha nice! I remember hearing back in the day some of the pro's would go practice in old beat up boats so no one knew it was them.

My buddy once busted Ted Capra in a tri-hull. Said, how's it going Ted? and Ted picked up the trolling motor and buzzed out of there.

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I found 'em deep last night casting a light jig/senko to the 3' weed edge next to deeper structure and just pulling it down the "hill" over and through the weed tops. All my fish we coming at the bottom of the hill in about 14'-19', so I switched to a little heavier jig, and just fished the bottom edge. That's where they were.

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Fished a 3hr derby last night. Caught most of my fish in ~12' of water because that is were the weeds seemed to end. It was on an inside turn leading into a larger weed flat. The boat that landed the big fish was in 18' and the winner was in 20' of water off the end of a sharp point.

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Tues night tournament on Green Lake ... top 3 weights were 21 Ibs, 20 Ibs and 20 Ibs - all caught deep on a main lake point with the wind blowing 20-30 mph. Pretty hard to find that many big fish shallow on a given night.

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bassfshin24 Mentor

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We have Green coming up next for our tournament. Had a tournament on Big Marine last night. Top 3 places came on deep weedlines. 15-18ft. Big fish was 4.5lbs which actually came shallow on buzz frog. I ended up in 6th place unfortunately with 8.66lbs haha. Caught all fish in 16-22ft on drop shot. Man that lake can be tough to break double digits. Only 3 out of 20 teams had double digit weights.

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I was out last night and was cruising the shallows with senkos and some other plastics. It was dink city in close so we moved out to the tip of a rocky point in 12 feet of water and picked up a 17, 18 and 19 in the last 45 minutes, all on a beaver/Title Shot jig.

Nice to meet you Ruddy Duck!

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We have Green coming up next for our tournament. Had a tournament on Big Marine last night. Top 3 places came on deep weedlines. 15-18ft. Big fish was 4.5lbs which actually came shallow on buzz frog. I ended up in 6th place unfortunately with 8.66lbs haha. Caught all fish in 16-22ft on drop shot. Man that lake can be tough to break double digits. Only 3 out of 20 teams had double digit weights.

3rd was 9lbs so only 2 boats broke double digits which seems to be an accomplishment on Big Marine these days, Pretty sad.

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Nice meeting and talking to you out there Juan! It was a nice night to be out.

Add another 17in to that deeper spot that I caught earlier on a lipless crank! Probably in about 9-10ft up on the flat a bit more near the weed edge.

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We have Green coming up next for our tournament. Had a tournament on Big Marine last night. Top 3 places came on deep weedlines. 15-18ft. Big fish was 4.5lbs which actually came shallow on buzz frog. I ended up in 6th place unfortunately with 8.66lbs haha. Caught all fish in 16-22ft on drop shot. Man that lake can be tough to break double digits. Only 3 out of 20 teams had double digit weights.

Fellow Greenhorn here. Bummer is I know where the winning bags came from but with one of the slowest boats in the field we cant win those races. We even had boat one last night and opted to start at our other spots instead of lose the boat race. We went to that area late in the evening after the bite died down and caught our biggest fish. Oh well, hindsight is 20/20.

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I'll have to meet ya at the next event Turnup. I have the Red/Black/Silver triton. I was getting pretty frustrated last night. I had 2 spots I wanted to fish first and they were both open so I went to the deep rocks and within 15 minutes got a 2.5lber and then nothing and all the sudden another boat pulls up on the other spot I wanted to fish and proceeded to see them catch fish. They finally left and we went over there and culled twice with 1 being a 3.25. Sure wish we would have started in the other spot haha. Oh well.

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I'll have to meet ya at the next event Turnup. I have the Red/Black/Silver triton. I was getting pretty frustrated last night. I had 2 spots I wanted to fish first and they were both open so I went to the deep rocks and within 15 minutes got a 2.5lber and then nothing and all the sudden another boat pulls up on the other spot I wanted to fish and proceeded to see them catch fish. They finally left and we went over there and culled twice with 1 being a 3.25. Sure wish we would have started in the other spot haha. Oh well.

We are always in an Alumacraft Navigator either mine, grey with 50hp Yamaha tiller, or my partners, tan counsel with a 60 hp merc.

That's a bummer, but sounds like you guys had some quality fish for Big Marine. All our spots were filled with avg. Big Marine fish. It is tough with about 20 other boats on these lakes we are really only getting our first spot to ourselves (sometimes not even) after that its just getting in the parade of boats. Its pretty obvious were a lot of boats will be or will want to be on Green.

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Definitey going to be funny to see all the boats on Green. I think I'll get to the community hole and throw a marker buoy and start fan casting a big crank haha.

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