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What areas of a lake are best to target with swimbaits in summer?
Great question! During the summer season, bass tend to move to deeper, cooler waters as the surface temperatures rise. Here are some ideal areas of a lake where you can effectively use swimbaits:
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Deep Water Structures: Bass often hang around deep water structures such as points, humps, rock piles, channels, and submerged roadbeds. These areas provide cover and are prime spots for bass to ambush prey. Using a swimbait on a jig head in these areas can be very effective.
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Schooling Areas: In the summer, bass often school up and chase shad or other baitfish. Using electronics to locate these schools is crucial. Once you find them, a compact, small heavyweight swimbait can mimic the baitfish they are feeding on. A 3/8 oz jig head with a smaller swimbait like a Keitech 3.3 is a great choice.
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Marinas and Floating Structures: If you’re fishing in a reservoir with semi-clear water and not a lot of offshore structure, marinas, houseboats, and floating campsites can be excellent spots. These structures provide shade and attract baitfish, making them attractive to bass.
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Main Lake Points and Docks: Early in the morning, bass might be found in shallower areas like main lake points, docks, and pockets near deep water. As the day progresses and temperatures rise, they tend to move deeper. Starting with a swimbait in these shallower areas and then transitioning to deeper water as the day heats up can be a good strategy.
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Grass and Cover: Bass love cover, and during the summer, they often relate to grass beds and other types of cover. A swimbait can be an excellent choice to fish around these areas, especially if you can find deeper grass beds.
Tips for Using Swimbaits:
- Slow Roll: In deeper water, slow rolling a swimbait can keep it in the strike zone longer and entice bites from lethargic bass.
- Reaction Bites: Using a heavier jig head can create a reaction bite by making the swimbait fall faster and triggering a predatory response.
- Adjust Line Weight: Depending on the cover and structure, adjust your line weight. Use heavier line (14-16 lb) around timber and lighter line (10-12 lb) in open water.
Gear Recommendations:
- Rod: A medium-heavy rod like the Shimano Zodias 7'2" is versatile for swimbait fishing.
- Reel: A high gear ratio reel like the Shimano Metanium HG helps in managing retrieves and fighting fish.
- Line: Fluorocarbon line is preferred for its low visibility and sensitivity.
By targeting these areas and using the right techniques, you can maximize your chances of catching bass with swimbaits during the summer. Happy fishing! If you have any more questions or need further clarification, feel free to ask!
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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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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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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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Hair Jigs, Flutter Spoons, Swimbaits, OH My! Summer Bass Fishing! by BassGeek → hey basking here we're doing some deep water summer bass fishing again and we're going to talk about moving schools and the smorgasbord abates you need to have on your deck during the summer so we hit the lake first thing in the morning the weather for that day it started out at somewhere in the mid 70s it was going to end up with a high of about 95 degree we're going to be doing some deep fishing again the water temperature started out at about 78 got up to about 81 now the water clarity as always on this lake is about 14 to 15 feet clear we started out on a spot that we've been catching them on pretty well over the course of the past two to three weeks on swim baits we were mixing it up a little bit seen if they were there we were throwing the five and a half shadow licious the six inch bass tricks even threw in some bullsh and couldn't seem to get any bites early on as it got a little later in the day you'll see later in the video mic picked off a small one on the bass tricks and then I picked a spoon up and picked out picked off a small one on the strike king 5.5 inch sexy spoon now after we didn't get the bites we expected to get in that area we decided to graph the area and the school
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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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