JULY bass fishing report (whats working now)

[Corey Bechtold]

Does Lowrance have a mg/l sensor on their locators?

Great info,

Corey Bechtold

[ocf1]

I wish.............

[Deitz Dittrich]

Fun day on the water.. only spent about 3.5 hours on the lake with a bud before the storm hit. We knew it was going to be gangbusters.. with the stable weather we have had and a front moving in.. boy was it. 86 fish, biggest a hair over 5 lbs. Got a sore thumb!

[Slyster]

Nice job Deitz!

Could you share your depths, cover, and successful lures? (not lake or locale of course)

[bassNspear]

Dude, thats awesome. I bet it was a great time.

[Juan Grande]

I haven't caught 86 bass in my entire life, combined!

I was happy with 8 in three hours the other night, can't imagine 10 times that. What was your presentation?

[RickyBobby]

aquatic vegetation produces oxygen through photosynthesis during daylight hours but consumes oxygen through respiration at night. Weedy lakes will have a daily dissolved oxygen concentration pattern in which DO peaks in late afternoon shortly after the period of highest light penetration, and then slowly drops through the night while plant respiration is occurring. DO levels bottom out at sunrise and begin increasing as plants switch back to photosynthesis. In some lakes this daily fluctuation in DO levels will cause larger fish to suspend away from vegetation at night. In extreme situations, it can actually trigger a fish kill. Usually its in combination with other factors, such as a cloudy day with high air and water temps, no wind, and maybe some rain storm runoff that clouds the water and produces a sudden surge in nutrients from surrounding land area that feeds decomposers. I believe this type of fish kill is pretty rare in these parts and smaller lakes are definitely more suseptible. What's more common is fish kills associated with intense algae blooms that quickly turn into intense algae die-offs. The die-offs could again be caused by a combination of a calm cloudy day, high temps, and rain storm run-off. Surrounding landuse is usually a big contributor to any DO problems. Lakes in heavy agricultural areas or lakes that are surrounded by fertilized lawns are more at risk of having unstable DO.

[TurnUpTheFishing]

Wow, was this your best day ever? A fish every 2.5 minute average is amazing!

[Deitz Dittrich]

This probably was not my best day ever, but it sure was a ton of fun. A few years back I was fishing 3 to a boat and the 3 of us in 4 hours caught 124 bass.. that was a ton of fun.. with a lot in the 4 lb range.

Anyway yesturday... we have had consistant weather, we fished slop edges, weightless senko(comida) caught the most fish in/above/and around the slop. Right before the storm hit we through topwaters when the lake went like glass. I was throwing a spook(walk the dog) type bait made by yo-zori and my bud was throwing a pop-r. Litteraly for like 30 mins we were catching a fish every other cast. Right before that storm hit, it was crazy. We plyed smart and was back to the boat landing and loaded up with plenty of time before the storm actually hit. Had we pushed it a little more, we would have hit the 100 fish mark easy.

[Craigums]

Now that the storm has passed do you think the pressure is going to change enough to effect the fishing? I'd like to get out this weekend, and weather report just looks like clear and sunny

[Deitz Dittrich]

Craig-I really think it depnds on where you are and how hard the storm hit... No matter what.. its a good time to go fishing.

[ocf1]

I like to fish slower the next couple days after a pretty big front. According to the dissolved oxygen there will be more DO.

[st.crioxfishin]

As Deitz stated, there is never a "bad" time to go fishing. As for the storm changing fishing conditions...sure it could, but you never really know. It may slow the bite, but you still may be able to catch them on reaction bite type lures fishing fast(Ever watch Van Dam? The guy is a master at this). There are so many varialbes when it comes to fishing that you never really know what to expect untill your out there. Sure, there are some rules of thumb for finding fish, but these are mainly seasonal trends. Day by day things can change, espeacially in the spring and fall months when stable patterns aren't as predictable as in the summer months. I guess what I'm trying to say is that no matter what the day presents to you and you have the option to go fishing, go fish! Try and establish a pattern for that day and have some fun doing it . It's definately easier said than done at times, but (for me at least) there isn't anything better I could think of than being out on a lake fishing.

[Slyster]

Deitz.. when you say 'slop' do you mean thick milfoil islands/shallow shorelines?

Or shorelines with lots of grass/pads etc?

I guess I don't really know what 'slop' means.

[Deitz Dittrich]

This was ultra thick coontail weeds, probably 5 feet deep but the weeds were all the way to the surface, then had some scummy stuff floating on the coontail at times.

[vikingmeatwad]

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This was ultra thick coontail weeds, probably 5 feet deep but the weeds were all the way to the surface, then had some scummy stuff floating on the coontail at times.

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Thanks for the info Deitz but how do you fish "in" the slop. Maybe I need to upgrade my setup but I find it hard to drop a senko under the slop as it just gets hung up on the top. I use those northland weighted hooks wacky style but they still can't get below the thick stuff. By thick stuff I mean those huge areas covered with pads and that slimy weeds, etc.

Thanks!

[Deitz Dittrich]

Vik- this was a situation where we were looking for pockets in the coontail and throwing the lure in the pockets. There was no way to get the lure through the coontail... Coontail is pretty thick stuff, and not very good to get into it.. your only options are outisde edge and above.. we chose above.

[Slyster]

How do you know if it's coontail or milfoil? Are those yellow/brownish weeds milfoil and coontail is bright green? (That's what I think)... but I've never seen coontail grow very thick before.. just milfoil.

DEITZ... so basically you used a long pole and drop the Comida's straight down into holes?

[ocf1]

You can flip or pitch them in.

[Slyster]

But then if you pitch them into the holes.. when you don't catch a fish.. how can you get your hook through the extreme weeds? Just rip it through?

[st.crioxfishin]

Try the bait texas rigged and wieghtless, you shouldn't have a problem with the hook getting caught up in the grass when its rigged like that

[ocf1]

The line will rest on the weed edge of that hole so when you reel in the lure will come up to the edge, sometimes it will need a short little popto get it free. Yum dingers have a hook slot for when they are T-Rigged, life like yet weedless.

[Deitz Dittrich]

Sly- if its texas rigged it will not get caught up too bad. I was making fairly long casts.. much of the time the comida was on top of the weeds much like a scum frog.. then just stopped and let it sink into the holes...

and sly---This is Coontail

Milfoil-

[Juan Grande]

I was out on a small metro lake last week and got this fish in the shallow weeds on a green senko. Didn't get a length, but she was 4 lbs on the scale. We ended up getting 8 fish in all, most of them between 2 and 3 pounds. Those of you that know the lake can probably guess where it was by the background

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[bassNspear]

looks like a nice fish