I had a few hours to kill. so I went to a nearby pond in a small development... no stream coming in or out... I beleive it was manmade as a retention pond... BUT - I saw at least a dozen nice size bass getting ready to make beds.... you could see small cleared out beds that looked like they just started to clear out... some of the bass were in the three pound range... they were in about one foot of water and they just stayed there chasing sunnies away from the area they cleared.... I tried everything to get them to hit but they didnt want anything to do with picking up or hitting a lure.... even with the sunnies.... there were plenty of one to two inch sunnies they could have easily swallowed, but all they did was flare their gills and chase them away... I tried, spinnerbait in a variety of retrieves.... worms, crawfish plastics, lizards, rapalas, crankbaits... but they just looked at my presentations and ignored them... sooooo frustrating... i guess if they didnt eat the sunnies, there would be nothing I could use that would be more lifelike as a live sunny.... I'll be back to nail some of these hogs....
Bedding / Spawning Bass are toughest Bass fishing I know . Come ready with an abundance of Paitiance .. Lol This is the time to Get the Big Mommas .
I agree.... I'll be going back soon....
I think that after they finish making and defending their beds, they will start biting.