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When will bass use dead aquatic vegetation?
Great question! Based on the video context provided, bass typically do not utilize dead aquatic vegetation. Here’s why:
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Oxygen Levels: As aquatic vegetation dies, it consumes oxygen rather than producing it. Bass, like all fish, need oxygen-rich water to thrive. Dead vegetation depletes the oxygen levels, making it an undesirable habitat for bass.
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Baitfish Movement: Baitfish, which are a primary food source for bass, also avoid areas with low oxygen levels. As the vegetation dies and oxygen levels drop, baitfish move to areas with healthier, green vegetation. Consequently, bass follow the baitfish to these oxygen-rich areas.
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Cover and Habitat: While live vegetation provides excellent cover and habitat for bass, dead vegetation does not offer the same benefits. As the grass dies, it loses its structure and density, making it less effective as a hiding spot for bass.
Key Points from the Videos:
- Healthy Grass: Look for bright, green, and lively grass. This is where bass are likely to congregate because it provides both cover and oxygen.
- Transition to Hard Cover: As the grass dies, bass will move to hard cover such as rock piles, docks, and laydowns. These structures provide alternative hiding spots and are often located near the areas where the grass was previously healthy.
- Fall Transition: During the fall, as water temperatures drop and days shorten, bass will transition from dying grass to either deeper water with healthy vegetation or hard cover.
Practical Tips:
- Identify Healthy Vegetation: When fishing, pay attention to the color and health of the vegetation. If you’re pulling up bright green grass, slow down and fish that area thoroughly.
- Follow the Baitfish: Keep an eye on where the baitfish are moving. They will lead you to the areas with the best conditions for bass.
- Transition Points: Focus on transition points such as secondary points and the edges of weed lines. These are prime spots where bass will move as they leave dying vegetation.
If you have any more specific questions or need further clarification, feel free to ask! Happy fishing!
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Fall Transition - Where Do The Bass Go? ( And How To Catch Them ) by TacticalBassin → fishing a big grass mat you can kind of see it right you can see it with your eyes you can see it when you come back with your with your treble hooks and you have you have grass on it look for that brighter greener grass as you're fishing through an area and it's dead dead dead dead dead and all of a sudden you start coming back with some real nice lively green grass slow down and pick that area apart because those fish are going to congregate right to that again water temps they're going to start falling but more importantly it's the air temps at night and the length of days right it is i don't know 7 30ish almost bedtime right and it is still light out but it's not nearly as bright as it was a month or so a month or so ago you know mid-summer it doesn't get dark till well here it doesn't get dark till 9 30 ish quarter to 10 something like that and uh now we're really getting those shorter days and that is the that the length of days and the lows the overnight lows are the two main factors that cause those fish to just like a light switch just trigger into that fall transition now kind of talked about the shallow fish they're looking to to uh to school up bait so if you can find uh little coves like this little coves back here
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Fall Fishing: How To Catch Bass (This Works!) | How To | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → Now, let's take a little bit more consideration. Let's think about cover. Cover is the form of anything that's not part
of the bottom structure. So weeds, for example. There's really three different types. There's three… There's weeds, there's rocky cover, and then
there's wood. So let's start with weeds. Weeds, what the bass like to do…or the baitfish
will like to do is get up in those weeds and it helps them hide from their predators. And it helps them feed because it attracts
insects and zooplankton. And that's what the baitfish feed on. And the weeds in the summer to the beginning
of fall are very abundant and really thick in a lot of lakes and that's where the…that's
why…one of the reasons why the baitfish will be up shallow. Now as fall progresses and the water temperature
begins to drop, the weeds start to die off in the shallow areas first, and progressively
deeper and deeper. Well as they die, the weeds consume oxygen. Well, that's not what the baitfish want. Like I said earlier, they want oxygen-rich
water, so they'll move away from that. If you find dead and dying weeds in the fall,
don't fish it because chances are there's not gonna be a lot of fish in there. Move out deeper till you find the greener
weeds and that's where you're gonna find the baitfish. Until progressively towards the middle to
end of fall you're fishing the outside weed lines and 10 to 20 feet of water. And that actually concentrates a lot of fish
too.
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Where the Bass Go During the Fall - Bass Fishing by Flukemaster → you on the map and show you sun angles and stuff like that but know that when you when you're pitching a jig or something like that and you pull up that nice beautiful green grass that shouldn't be there there's going to be some bass in that area i promise you i've won several tournaments looking for green grass when everything else is dying off and it can take days and weeks and mon well months it'd be already dead but anyway it can take days to be able to find now as that grass starts to to die off what do the bass do the bass tend to move towards hard cover like rock piles and points and and docks and lay downs and stuff like that when that grass is gone they're gonna go find a better place to hide and i'm gonna tell you that in a minute all right so why do they why do they get away from the dying or the dead grass well the dead grass no longer is producing oxygen there's no more photoplankton there's no more uh you know no more reason for them to hang out there and the bait fish move away from it as well so they leave um so as the grass starts to die off it gets it becomes more or less and less of a of a reason to fish it right now i'm fishing grass because we still have green stuff and then
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Fall Transition: Where Do Bass Go (And How To Catch Them) by TacticalBassin → i'm not talking about giant fields of grass dying overnight although sometimes you'll have like cheese where cheese will be blooming they'll have all this cheese on the surface and then almost overnight it vanishes that is shocking but i'm just talking about your grass beds don't look quite as healthy as they did you're not seeing a lot of new growth starting to look a little more dead a little more brown the second that happens bass abandon that grass they are headed one of two places either one they're headed to grass that is still healthy and growing because bass use the grass this time of year for several reasons and a really shallow fishery it's not just about cover it's also about oxygen there is a lot more oxygen in that grass the grass is producing oxygen so the fish are in there the second it starts to die that oxygen production just stops and the value of that grass goes to nothing and the bass are out of there like a rocket they're headed either to healthy grass where there's still auction oxygen production or they're headed to hard cover and structure so where you need to be looking where you need to be spending your time is hard structure near the grass you were catching fish in so if you had a giant expansive grass flat the fish are headed one or two places some go shallow some go deep they're
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Where Do Bass Go During The Fall Transition? ( And How To Catch Them ) by TacticalBassin → could go a quarter of a mile to that either livelier grass it's going to be real green real thick uh that is really really important what I want you guys to understand is it's hot right we're finally getting through summer the water temps are the highest they've probably been all year and that really reduces the oxygen in the water so that green livelier grass helps produce oxygen puts in the water you know so it helps those fish uh be comfortable breathe easier so they move to that grass along with all the bait fish the bluegill all the panish and your little silver sides your thread Fin shads and and your gizard Shad okay so everything's moving to the grass Highland reservoirs lowland reservoirs less grass they're moving to rock or wood so back out of where you've been catching them maybe it was like I said in that back of that bay now you're going to bump out to that first secondary Point check there and then move those secondary points down back out towards the main Lake Point so kind of like reverse of that spring transition as those fish were coming in from wintertime their winter haunt they're taking those secondary points to the next second secondary point they're getting back in that spawning Bay and maybe that's where you've been catching them all all year all summer now another area that I really like to
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Where Do Bass Go During Summer? (And How To Catch Them) by TacticalBassin → that key structure you're going to have a lot more vegetation and stuff in the backs of the cuts because your cuts aren't as sheer and deep like the canyons like the highland reservoirs you're going to have a lot more vegetation back in the back you know the grass like i said grass is key look for the thickest darkest nastiest grass you know fresh when i say nasty fresh looking grass thick grass because that's where those fish are going to hunker in and that's where you're going to take advantage with the flip baits and the frogs that sort of stuff natural lakes same thing those fish are going to disperse about half your fish are going to stay shallow about half your fish are going to stay head out deep you know i always think of clear lake because that was my home lake you know those fish are looking for grass lines so i like to go out as far as i can can and find that grass line edge typically it's going to be where where you we talk about color line hopefully you guys understand what color line is it's where the light penetration can't reach bottom anymore or doesn't reach uh as as easily as it does in the shallow and you'll notice that kind of color line is kind of the edge or the barrier of where that grass meets where that where that grass can get that sunlight and really
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