11 Pound Guntersville Bass

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Jeff Nail’s Lake Lanier Bass Fishing Report

Lake Hartwell Fishing Report from Captain Mack

 

Lake Lanier Fishing Report from Captain Mack

Lake Guntersville Weekly Fishing Report from Captain Mike Gerry

Lake Country Fishing – fishing reports on Lakes Sinclair and Oconee, and more. (subscription required)

Texas Parks and Wildlife Weekly Freshwater Fishing Reports

Texas Parks and Wildlife Weekly Saltwater Reports

Fishing Report 1/26/24

The bite for me was mainly about top water as there was times when you could have fished
on top all day long and caught top water fish. We had perfect conditions most of the week for
a variety of top water baits; results are everything and it proved out fishing over grass.

Baits were mainly about SPRO pop-r’s, buzz baits and spooks working over grass. We did have
some good results on Missile Bait D-Bombs and Tight-Line swim jigs. The best was certainly
the top water bite, and it really didn’t matter what to bait you fished.

Retrieve Speed and Results

As we approach winter fishing or late fall feed up this becomes a time of year that one of the
most critical things that people do wrong shows its head. When you have trouble catching
fish this time of year, it has a lot to do with how quickly you retrieve your bait while fishing!

There are many ways to work a bait and certainly many of them require you to work them
very quickly to produce the action the bait was designed for; however working that bait
certain times of years require you to slow down and we are approaching that critical time
now!

Let me give you an example, many of us are successful at fishing a frog when we burn it
across a grass mat. Excellent example of when and how to catch fish; burning it does require
you to change speeds and tempo many times to be successful. If you’re burning the frog
without stopping, slowing, or speeding back up, then you could very well have the wrong
tempo required to get a bass to bite. When your best buddy tells you to burn it and they will
bite does not necessarily mean he never slows down, or stops the bait to change the tempo,
this can be a critical piece of retrieve speed.

All baits we fish with require thought on the presentation; and many times the presentation
you use at first light may need to be changed drastically to get the same bite at 11am. Fish
are more active many times at 6am than they are at 9am and retrieve speed and tempo
needs to be changed many times as the day progresses.

Lastly tournament anglers are a perfect example of critical retrieve speed. Many times a
tournament angler hits the water for a practice day and really slays the fish. He goes back to
the same spot at the same time of day during the tournament and can’t get his fish to bite;
why? He is fishing with a different tempo than he did during his practice time. Not realizing
how critical this can be, his body is hyped up and the speed and tempo at which he catches
fish in practice has changed! His adrenaline changed his tempo and hence his bite.

Thought is
everything in retrieve speed!

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