Pro shares secrets to getting bites after fish leave the beds
Bass fishermen hate the thought of having to catch fish that have just finishing spawning and are often acting sickly, but sometimes they just have to figure out how to catch these finicky fish.
Bass pro Tracy Adams of North Wilkesboro, who has won tournaments on both the FLW and B.A.S.S. circuits, turns to three lures — a white jig, a Pop-R or a buzz bait — when he’s
got to catch postspawn bass.
“I like to swim a white jig around docks from 2 to 8 feet deep,”
he said. When he uses his topwater of choice, he chooses small Pop-Rs instead of the larger models. Adams said postspawn bass often suspend under floating docks or under the platform of anchored docks, so getting a lure back inot these areas and keeping it close to the surface is
a tough task.
That’s where a jig comes in.
“I like to fish a ½-ounce, white Shooter jig with something
like a white Zoom Super Chunk trailer,” he said. “I think what
you’ve got sometimes is the shad spawning in the mornings at
the same time that bass are in the postspawn; I think that’s why
it works.
"I want to cast within a couple of feet of the riprap and work
that Pop-R,” he said. “It doesn’t have to be riprap — it can be a
rocky bank, that’s most important — but you want it to be on
some corner or bank that’s coming out of a spawning pocket.”
Last but not least, Adams tries to draw reaction strikes from
postspawn bass that are oriented to laydowns or other wooden
cover with a Shooter buzz bait.
“This works better right when they have come off the bed, but
the water has got to be warm,” he said. “I like to fish it around
any kind of wood: willows, bushes or laydow
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