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What are some tactics you use on early/mid summer largemouths?
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to[ water lures like frogs and buzz baits. slow and in thick weeds.
Fish off shore line in the AM and deep water by noon.
Night fish with topwater or spinners. (works the best)
Daytime, hit them with a rubber worm.
Be out on the water fishing good cover when it's barely light enough to see, morning and evening, then, like Treestand said, fish deeper water structure later in the day. Any time you can find shade, that's a good bet whether under a dock or along a shady bank. Experiment with different depths and speed of retrieve. You have to keep trying different things---if there were one thing that worked all the time, we'd all catch fish all the time.
in the middle of the day, fish under branches and deep as others have said.
I agree with what the others have said. Top waters can be great this time of year, but you may have to experiment. I was out throughout the afternoon and evening last night and we were consistently getting hit on Pop-R's and skitter pop's, but only when fishing them real fast, and they wouldn't touch any other top waters. Worms were also producing well. They weren't slamming the top waters, just sort of softly sucking them in, so we started throwing finesse worms in right behind the top water and were getting fish every few casts all day.
Finesse fishing on the bottom when they are too hot and sluggish to bite actively. Dragging wacky worms, senkos, and plastic frogs through the weeds and along the edge of weeds. They hang out in the weeds for shade and cover, but usually can't resist something swimming right by the edge or over and among the pads. This will usually work right in the middle of a hot afternoon, especially if the weeded part of the lake is near an inlet. At night use a big Jitterbug retrieved steadily past docks and other shallow cover, pausing the retrieve for a couple seconds here and there.
find you a ledge, and fish a shakey head.
i agree fishing deep in the middle of the afternoon is a great way to catch fish...don't overlook thick weeds and lilly pads that provide a lot of cover, shade, food, and oygen. it helps if a creek flowing in is nearby, not necessary thoug...i like to flip heavily lilly padded areas mid-day...
I've had some good success dragging a rubber worm slowly on the bottom in deep water. I often let my boat drift in the wind trolling a worm during the heat of the day.
frog frog frog..Only thing I have used in the past month is a spro bonzeye frog. Largemouth are all over it open water and in the shade. Wading use a roostertail.
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to[ water lures like frogs and buzz baits. slow and in thick weeds.
i agree fishing deep in the middle of the afternoon is a great way to catch fish...don't overlook thick weeds and lilly pads that provide a lot of cover, shade, food, and oygen. it helps if a creek flowing in is nearby, not necessary thoug...i like to flip heavily lilly padded areas mid-day...
Fish off shore line in the AM and deep water by noon.
Night fish with topwater or spinners. (works the best)
Daytime, hit them with a rubber worm.
Be out on the water fishing good cover when it's barely light enough to see, morning and evening, then, like Treestand said, fish deeper water structure later in the day. Any time you can find shade, that's a good bet whether under a dock or along a shady bank. Experiment with different depths and speed of retrieve. You have to keep trying different things---if there were one thing that worked all the time, we'd all catch fish all the time.
in the middle of the day, fish under branches and deep as others have said.
find you a ledge, and fish a shakey head.
I've had some good success dragging a rubber worm slowly on the bottom in deep water. I often let my boat drift in the wind trolling a worm during the heat of the day.
I agree with what the others have said. Top waters can be great this time of year, but you may have to experiment. I was out throughout the afternoon and evening last night and we were consistently getting hit on Pop-R's and skitter pop's, but only when fishing them real fast, and they wouldn't touch any other top waters. Worms were also producing well. They weren't slamming the top waters, just sort of softly sucking them in, so we started throwing finesse worms in right behind the top water and were getting fish every few casts all day.
Finesse fishing on the bottom when they are too hot and sluggish to bite actively. Dragging wacky worms, senkos, and plastic frogs through the weeds and along the edge of weeds. They hang out in the weeds for shade and cover, but usually can't resist something swimming right by the edge or over and among the pads. This will usually work right in the middle of a hot afternoon, especially if the weeded part of the lake is near an inlet. At night use a big Jitterbug retrieved steadily past docks and other shallow cover, pausing the retrieve for a couple seconds here and there.
frog frog frog..Only thing I have used in the past month is a spro bonzeye frog. Largemouth are all over it open water and in the shade. Wading use a roostertail.
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