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How deep should I fish Canyon Lake Arizona in March?
In March, the bass at Canyon Lake, Arizona, are likely in their pre-spawn to spawning phases, depending on the water temperature. As Randy Blaukat discusses in his videos, during the pre-spawn, bass often move to shallower waters. They might be found in depths ranging from 3 to 15 feet, especially near structures like rocky banks, points, and cover such as submerged trees or brush piles.
As the water temperature approaches the mid-50s to 60 degrees, which is common in March, bass will start to move into shallower areas in preparation for spawning. They may be found on flatter banks and near spawning flats. It's a good idea to target areas with some cover, as bass will use these for staging before they move up to the shallows to spawn.
Keep in mind that water clarity can also affect depth. In slightly stained to off-colored water, bass may be more comfortable in shallower water even during cooler temperatures. If you're fishing in clearer water, they might be a bit deeper.
To sum it up, start by targeting areas with depths of 3 to 15 feet, focusing on structure and cover that bass can use as staging areas before moving shallow to spawn. Adjust your depth based on water clarity and temperature, and keep an eye out for signs of bass moving up to spawn as the water warms. Remember, the bigger fish often move shallow first, so March can be an excellent time to catch a trophy bass at Canyon Lake.
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Why This Section Of Your Lake Is The No. 1 Area To Be Fishing In Mid-March by Intuitive Angling With Randy Blaukat → you know if it's just if it puts a pretty heavy stain into the water and it's shallow and that water is warming up you can go like into the backs of the coves and the backs of the creeks you can catch those fish really shallow just temporarily all over the lake it could be on the lower end it could be the upper end the mid and whatever like that but that goes away as the creeks clear up and that type of stuff but what i want to talk about specifically is normal conditions where do you want to fish out the third week of april from my standpoint and from what i've seen in bass fishing in march this time of year the lake fish is pretty wide open there's there's always some type of a bite on the lower end and the mid lake and the upper end under normal conditions and a lot of this depends on the species of bass that you have in it if you've got a lake that's a predominant largemouth lake uh like say for example lake you fall on alabama you know that's going to create a different scenario you're going to have your options limited a little bit more but if you're fishing a lake like i'm going to today here at table rock lake where you got a mix of largemouth spotted bass and smallmouth that creates a lot more options for you
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Fishing Situation...Spring/Water Visibility 2-4 Feet/ 60 Degree Water/ Best Approach?? by Intuitive Angling With Randy Blaukat → identify two or three major creek arms in that particular lake and so that eliminates the main lake for me it eliminates a lot of coves so now my let my lake has been narrowed down to basically three creek arms on the lower mid end of the lake and specifically what i'm looking for now even narrows it down even more is i want to fish those coves off the creek arms itself little cuts little coves that type of stuff this is the type of scenario that these fish are going to be looking to move into when you have water temperatures in the 60s you're still going to have bass in three different stages of the spawn you're going to have some pre-spawners you're going to have some bedding fish and you're going to have some posts on spawn fish in the same area so under these situations let's say it's just an average day air temperature 70 degrees just the average air temperature day you have a partly cloudy day with 10 mile an hour winds just a typical spring day the first thing that i'm looking for what i want to be the first thing i'm going to try the first technique i'm going to look for is i'm going to get back into those coves off the creeks and i'm going to have a wacky rig on and i'm going to cover the bank with a wacky rig
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Why This Section Of Your Lake Is The No. 1 Area To Be Fishing In Mid-March by Intuitive Angling With Randy Blaukat → a little deeper and in the mid part of the lake it gradually sometimes starts to starts to flatten out not all the time but you've got more flat options like in the backs of the bays and the creeks and uh you know and then in the upper rivers you know tends to flatten out you've got a combination of maybe some channel banks bluff banks and then the opposite flat side with the dirtier water but when you're talking about 50 degree water bass are real temperature sensitive to 50 50 degree water as far as the things that makes them really aggressive and for me what i like to look for the third week of march is i know those fish want to be shallow i i all those bass out there and there's still a lot of bass suspended this time of year when the water's 50 degrees but internally those bats want to move shallow and the things that generate them and allow them to move shallow is normally a combination of a little bit off colored water days that are a little windier cloudy or rainy or that type of stuff you'll see more fish move up shallow and i found out in the mid part of the lake on any man-made lake when you've got that magic you know combination of 50 degree water water being a little bit more off-colored um those are the first fish
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Why This Section Of Your Lake Is The No. 1 Area To Be Fishing In Mid-March by Intuitive Angling With Randy Blaukat → as far as you know fish being in different stages and fish using different water depths right off the bat just to simplify it from the years of experience i've had with this when you're talking about the mid to late part of march the best part of the lake for me is that mid lake section it seems like to me the mid lake section you have a combination of you've got clean water for the most part overall for the lake but at the same time you begin to get a little bit of off-colored water for example i'll use table rock again right now you may have 10 foot of visibility down on the lower end of the lake and you may have five or six feet of visibility on the mid part of the lake um and you know gets dirtier as you get up the creeks like that the reason i like the mid part of the lake and not the lower end and the upper end is you got that mix you've got the mix of the right water clarity you got the mix of the temperatures coming up and you usually have some type of a sort of the bank transition in the mid part of the lake the geography the lake begins to change a little bit a lot of the lakes across the country the lower end of the lake tends to be a little steeper sometimes
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Best March Bass Fishing Tutorial Of All-Time… by Intuitive Angling With Randy Blaukat → time may be on the bottom and 30 foot of water or 40 foot of water and now they're on the bottom and three to six foot of water so they just start moving a little bit shallower in the pre-spawn and normally what you have is you have the bigger fish begin to move up shallower quicker that's why we've talked about this before March is such a really good time to catch a big fish because the bigger there's more big fish up Shallow in March and early April than any other time of the year now the second phase that happens in March is the what I call the sort of like the uh um the the mid to late pre-spawn now this is a period where the fish are starting to move into different type of Bank angles and they don't suspend as much so one of the things you'll find out about bass and cold water or cold weather is they tend to like vertical structures more whether it be suspending or they like bluffy Banks or steep Banks Channel banks that type of stuff as you get more into the mid to the late part of the pre-spawn this is usually signaled by water temperature sort of in the mid 50s in that range mid to maybe maybe at the maximum of like 57 58 degrees the bass starts to filter out to a little bit flatter areas for the most
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Fishing Situation...Spring/Water Visibility 2-4 Feet/ 60 Degree Water/ Best Approach?? by Intuitive Angling With Randy Blaukat → let's say two to four foot pretty much throughout the course of the lake and you got a lake with a lot of different mix cover you got some type of variations of boat docks lay downs points coves rocky banks that type of stuff water temperatures let's say they're around 60 degrees what they are right now and so this would be my advice on how to approach that particular scenario and like i said a lot of this depends you know on the specific lake you're at but this is just a general ballpark man-made impalement so under these conditions when you find yourself under these conditions about a mid-april situation two to four foot a diversity of cover in the lake the first thing that i want to do this time of year when that water temperature is close to 60 degrees is i want to focus sort of on that mid to lower end of the lake that's my primary focus and the biggest thing about bass fishing is you want to be able to narrow something down so a lake regardless of its size doesn't become intimidating so from that standpoint if you narrow it down to the lower to the mid-end of the lake that cuts off half of the lake you have to to you know figure out so let's cut it down even more specifically what i'm looking for on the lower or mid-end of the lake i'm looking to
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