The weird thing however is night bassing has been pretty damn good in the very same area from about 12:00 AM to 12:30 when it dies down again... any thoughts?
It's the summertime funk find a place that works for you. Don't except to kill them at some big BOW with extreme depth changes ranging 40ft+. Best bets for good LMB in the summer no matter what time of day/conditions etc... SHALLOW WATER! Find something less than 125 acres and only maybe reaches a depth of 15ft. Good luck
Also if your pond has decent amount of vegetation, but in the summer has a spot with lots of emergent/submerged vegetation fish there! Like i said every BOW is different, but at my local place all the big bass and pickerel congregate under the sweet weeds FILLED with buttloads of baitfish. Find the bait and you'll be near some lunkers for sure!!
Every BOW is different. I might go wet a line at your local pond, catch nothing move down the street to another pond and start rippin lips.
It's the summertime funk find a place that works for you. Don't except to kill them at some big BOW with extreme depth changes ranging 40ft+. Best bets for good LMB in the summer no matter what time of day/conditions etc... SHALLOW WATER! Find something less than 125 acres and only maybe reaches a depth of 15ft. Good luck
Also if your pond has decent amount of vegetation, but in the summer has a spot with lots of emergent/submerged vegetation fish there! Like i said every BOW is different, but at my local place all the big bass and pickerel congregate under the sweet weeds FILLED with buttloads of baitfish. Find the bait and you'll be near some lunkers for sure!!
That's the thing about the pond I'm fishing, it's like the perfect combo of all that stuff, after 2 years of searching I found an unreal spot and was killing bass, but as of late has slowed to a crawl... it's just weird that they only come out at night... mostly (movie reference
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It's slowed way down for me, I mostly fish east of 95. Ever since that heat wave they just stopped hitting everything. Only thing I've had luck on lately is shallow crankbaits and senkos, but even on those it's been extremely hit or miss. All of my spots where I was pulling in fish with regularity all summer have really died down. I've also noticed that the ponds and lakes I go to are extremely shallow right now. We haven't had any rain in a while and the shorelines are all exposed a surprising amount. Not sure what effect that might have, but I was out for 6 hours today, caught a ton of salad and not much else.
This was my exact experience, but it's picked up a bit as of late, still nothing like a month ago, maybe a little earlier. Seems the bite dies down really early now, around 6 oclock and they shut down until about 12.