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Where can I catch orange roughy?
I believe there might be a bit of confusion here. Orange roughy is actually a deep-sea fish that is not targeted by recreational anglers due to its habitat in very deep ocean waters, often at depths of 180 to 1,800 meters (590 to 5,900 feet). It's typically caught by commercial fishing operations.
For bass fishing, which is my area of expertise, the best locations to fish can vary depending on the time of year and the behavior of the bass. As Todd Faircloth mentioned in the Wired2Fish video, after the spawn, a significant portion of bass move towards the main lake where conditions are more stable, water temperatures are cooler, and there is a plentiful forage base. He suggests looking for "intersections" in the lake, similar to busy highway intersections, where multiple travel routes for fish converge.
In the context of the videos you've mentioned, anglers are looking for offshore structures like creek channels, drop-offs, and points where bass are likely to congregate. These can be identified using electronic maps and sonar to find contour lines and changes in depth that indicate potential hotspots.
If you're interested in bass fishing and looking for productive areas to target, consider these tips from the videos:
- Focus on areas close to the main lake after the spawn.
- Look for structure such as creek channels, drop-offs, and points.
- Use electronic mapping and sonar to identify key underwater features.
- Pay attention to intersections or areas where multiple travel routes for fish meet.
- Consider the season and the bass's patterns when choosing your fishing location.
If you're specifically interested in fishing for orange roughy, I would recommend researching commercial fishing operations and regulations, as this is not a species typically targeted by sport fishing.
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How to Find and Catch Offshore Bass with Todd Faircloth by Wired2Fish → I'm a firm believer and the biggest populations of fish live close to the main lake and after the spawns over I'd say 70 percent of your fish are towards the big body of water and that's where the more stable conditions are that's where the cooler water temperatures are that's where the forage base is and that's where you're going to find your most productivity I like to tell people to kind of when they're driving down the highway put it in in your head that you know if this was filled with water what it would look like you know and some of the busiest places on the highways are intersections and that's the same thing that I look for out here on these lakes I look for intersections I look for a travel route where fish can come from this way and they can come from this way and they point up and they meet right here in that spot you know if you find a sweet spot out here three or four sweet spots out here they just tend to have more potential to replenish each and every day as opposed to just going down a bank and fishing a doc or a lay down when you're out here fishing offshore you're going to spend a lot of time behind the steering wheel looking at your electronic you know I'm going to follow my contour lines I'm going to follow my Navionics and I'm looking for
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I Found the $60,000 Spot but…who will Try and STEAL it?? by Milliken Fishing → that might be a type of place in the winter that would be really good deeper water of course I'm sure they get out in the Basin some I'm sure they get in the drains and The Creeks some too obviously but these fish are all spawning in the backs of these major Creeks that come off uh or they're going to I haven't seen any bed fish but I also can't say much because I haven't looked for them but we got these major Creeks that come off of Lake Eufaula even some little sneaky ones like this guy right here and the biggest thing that I've been looking for is these Creeks that really are a defined Creek Channel Edge and they have all this red or orange or yellow shading which is shallower water and then the creek channel right up against it that creates a harder drop off and a place for these fish to really stop and set up and so what I've found is so these fish will migrate obviously from their wintering spots and they're either going to chase bait or they're going to do whatever there's going to be Bait fish somewhere that at some point that they like in these spots so they'll follow this like a highway all the way to the back this isn't rocket science but this is one of my best schools right here and they're set up on the top side of
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Planning To Fish Offshore This Summer? Watch This First! by Fish the Moment → spots they're heading to these fish may only be on the spot for another one to two weeks at Max but we hit it right on time on This fishing trip and found a group of fish stacked up there one thing I did want to share with you guys I thought was really interesting is when we initially got to the lake we chose the section of lake that we were going to focus on using a new feature in the Deep dive app called the best areas feature basically what this feature does is give you the best section of the Lake based on historical tournament data depending on how you filter down the map I filtered it to Offshore areas without grass on This fishing day and I started by selecting the summer season because the water temperatures were 80 degrees but after determining the fish weren't fully in that summer pattern I switched it over to the post spawn period and it gave me the midsection of the lake on the main Lake and actually here is the exact spot where we found those fish on that Rocky spot and it was really cool that we're able to dial in at least a general section of the lake using the data in the Deep dive app and then narrow down exactly where we were going to fish with the electronics with our baits and things like that if you guys
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Best Shallow and Offshore Winter Fishing Areas on Clear Water Lakes | FTM Live Stream #66 by Bass Fishing Declassified → would be positioning on the edge of these points right on the very tip of these points right before they drop off in the center of that gut and those herring every once in a while would move up out of the middle of that gut up into that shallower water to feed on standing timber and rock piles and things like that and he would be able to position his boat and just make repeated casts on these different points over and over again to get bit another area that casey was catching him was up in this area and he was fishing these actually it was right in here this drain right here again those fish would push further back into these drains in the mornings chasing the herring in 20 to 25 feet of water and then as they progressed they moved further out here towards the middle of the lake and they would be in this gut in 60 to 70 feet of water and he was catching them off points like here and over here and over here but again the fish were positioning in 25 to 40 feet of water and he was actually fishing his uh under spin and his football jigs on the bottom really slow just crawling him up there and whenever he would get around the bass usually he would get bit if the blue back herring were in this section of the
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