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What areas of a lake are best to target with swimbaits in summer?
During the summer months, bass tend to move to deeper, cooler water as the temperatures rise. Based on the video context provided, here are some strategic places to use swimbaits in a lake for summer bass fishing:
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Deep Water: Look for areas where the water depth increases, such as drop-offs, ledges, or deep holes. Bass often retreat to these cooler depths when the sun is high and the water temperature increases.
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Schooling Bass: Use your electronics to locate schools of bass that are chasing baitfish in deeper water. Once you find a school, a compact and heavy swimbait can be effective, as mentioned with the use of a 3/8 jighead paired with a Keitech single impact 3.3 swimbait.
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Structure and Cover: Target offshore structures like points, humps, rock piles, channels, submerged road beds, and old sunken foundations. These are areas where bass tend to congregate during the summer. A paddle tail swimbait can be particularly effective when retrieved across these structures.
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Suspended Bass: If bass are suspending over deep water, a swimbait can be an excellent choice. You can cast it out and let it flutter down through the school, potentially triggering strikes as it falls.
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Weed Edges and Vegetation: In the early morning or late evening, bass may move up to shallower water to feed. Swimbaits can be retrieved just under the surface to create a wake over weed beds, drawing bass out from their cover.
Remember to adjust your tackle based on the conditions. If you're fishing around timber or heavy cover, you might want to use a heavier line, like 14-16 pound fluorocarbon. In more open water, lighter lines around 10-12 pounds could suffice. Also, consider the clarity of the water and the size of the baitfish when selecting your swimbait size and color.
Keep in mind that these are just guidelines, and bass behavior can vary based on numerous factors, including water temperature, time of day, and weather conditions. Experiment with different retrieves, such as slow rolling or varying speeds, to see what the bass are responding to on any given day.
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Swimbaits For Summer Bass Fishing | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → At the summertime, I'm using that kind of
paddle tail bait. Do you know why? It's they go in deep water, and chasing shad
a lot. Also, they are make a schooling especially
summertime. So, before fishing deep water, we gotta using
the electronics, to found the school. That's most important. Then you gotta choose a little bit compact,
small heavyweight swimbait I'm using. I'm using the 3/8 jighead right here with
Keitech single impact 3.3. It's a little bit smaller, but they are looking
for the little bitty shad. They sometime eating big shad, but I recommend
to the 3.3 because it's easy to eat for them. So, that's why I'm using the little bitty
swimbait with the tiny, tiny 3/8th jig head. But basically, in the summertime the fish
going, it's pretty close to the 20-foot range, so it's okay the quarter ounce, but it take
a time... Also, I want to make a kind of reaction bite. So, the heavy-weight jig head make a reaction
bite, and make a slow retrieve, and sometimes faster retrieve, and it depends on where the
fish are. Then also I'm using the Shimano Zodias 7'2"
medium heavy and 14-pound Fluorocarbon Line. But the line, it depends on where you fishing. If you fishing close to the timber, I recommend
the 16, yeah, 14, 16. Then if we don't have anything around your
fish, I chose the 10, 12-pound fishing line for the baitcasting reel. Then I'm using the Shimano Metanium HG, which
is a little high gear ratio.
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Bass Fishing in Extreme Summer Heat! (Best Baits & Locations) by LakeForkGuy → throw that at all depths and kind of hit that same thing with the swim bait really I've got a deep diving jig head in here I've got a three quarter ounce right now but you know a swim bait like this you can you can slow roll it deep you can cast it out if they're kind of busting near the surface and just reel it this is typically for a little better water Clarity but these are some moving bait options that I like to have tied on the spinner bait can be good but I like that more like early morning or if there's a Shad spawn happening or if I'm gotta fish that around some cover some brush and things like that then then I'll pick up this better bait but typically this time of year fish are more out in those deeper spots more open water and these selections right here are pretty good for your moving baits but there's a million moving baits and there's a thousand different ways you can catch fish so this is just my personal preferences on things for most of the Lakes I fish the other thing you must have must have in your selections is some sort of soft plastic dragger baby you gotta have something to crawl around down there with your Plastics whether that be a Shaky Head on a spinning setup or a big worm setup like I have here
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Summer Bass Fishing Tips | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → Now where do I target, I target deep water.
In the springtime I talked about fishing shallow 12 foot or less. In the summertime I'll do
shallow stuff in the mornings and then move straight out to the deep stuff. Because in
the morning time those fish will again will be up this main lake points, up on docks and
pockets but towards on the main lake. Those fish wanna be relating close to that deep
water or those river channels that are in the lake. Some of the baits I like to throw in the morning
again a buzz bait, I use it in the spring I also use in the summer. Your first hour
or so in the morning in the summer time a bass bait can be deadly. A walking bait again
is very awesome. Those are the type baits that you wanna fish in the summertime. Then once the sun gets up water temperature
starts to rise I like to go a little bit deeper. And what I like to do with that is go with
the shaky head like we have here and get out a little bit deeper with the shaky head or
even a big football jig like you have here. A big football jig works great. And another
thing deep diving crankbaits, deep diving crankbaits in the summer is way to catch a
lot of fish. Because those fish will get out there in that open water and they will school
up.
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9 Best Bass Lures That Work For Summer | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → heavier jig head or a heavier...like, I could
put it on a keel weighted hook to keep it, runs true. I'll just put a heavier keel weighted hook
and get it down there deeper and run it across those humps and those ridges and those rock
piles and then those sunken stumps and scattered chunk rock. Anything that's down there where the bass
are hanging, you can reach it with a paddle tail swimbait and shallow, too. If they're up on, you know, hanging in those
weeds, you can bring it back relatively fast across almost on the surface. Just under the surface, you can create a little
wake with the tail right over those weeds and draw those bass up out of those weeds. So it's very, very versatile that way. But one of the key reasons why I like it in
the summertime is because it's a great bait to use when the bass are suspending. And they do this in the summertime. They'll hang out. They'll suspend, say, over 30, 40 feet of
water. A swimbait, you can get to them with it. And what I like to do is just put a lightweight,
maybe a 1/4-ounce keel weighted hook on it, throw it out over the top of that school of
fish, and let it flutter down right through that school. And a lot of times, it won't make it down
through the bottom before it gets whacked. It's a great way.
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5 Best Lures For Summer Bass Fishing | How To | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → Maybe after a cold front comes through, they're
a little bit hesitant to bite. This is a great bait to use during that time. But don't limit yourself to shallow water. This is why this is really good during the
summer because you can put it behind a split-shot rig or in a Carolina rig, for example, or
even on a jighead. And then you can fish deeper than 10 feet
out there on the offshore structure where a lot of bass hang out during the summertime. Those are points, humps, rock piles, channels,
even submerged road beds and old sunken houses, foundations, things like that that are out
in some of the reservoirs out and around. So great bait to use during the summertime. That's number one. Number two on my list. Number two on my list is a crankbait. Now there are basically four different types
of crankbaits. You've got your lipless crankbaits. Those work really well in the summertime. I know they're great in the spring. But in the summer, what I like to do with
those is actually throw them out in deeper water and jig them off of the bottom. Throw them out, let them...they vibrate when
they fall so a lot of times, the bite is in the fall. But then when they hit the bottom, I pop it
off of the bottom, let it sink back down. Pop it up off the bottom. Great way to fish those deeper structure that
I just mentioned.
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Where Do Bass Go During Summer? (And How To Catch Them) by TacticalBassin → on what you want or what you're fishing but some kind of of four and a half to five inch swim bait rigged on a swim bait head is money you know these fish are actively feeding they're they're schooled up they're chasing bait they're trying to trying to eat right and they are machines so some kind another blow up getting distracted some kind of swim bait now all of these techniques that i'm talking about here in the near near future matt and i will do completely in-depth uh videos on the swim baits the crank baits the square bills the deep cranks the swing the pivot point football heads all of it we'll do in-depth videos but just wanted to get you guys kind of a a video kind of thinking about summertime out here we're kind of in that transition but get get yourself thinking about summertime get the baits ahead of time the gear you're gonna need because it is coming so deep bait kind of kind of going off track here um if i'm gonna slow down and finesse fish i i keep it fairly simple like i said before these fish are all about grass but more importantly they're all about cover so if you're fishing a highland reservoir or a lowland reservoir that has semi-clear water there's not a lot of offshore structure look at your marinas your houseboats your floating campsites that sort of stuff
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