Bass

Bass can act like humans. Well they have done it again. Sportsman's Warehouse has found an employee that is so knowledgeable in his field that I feel like I went to bass fishing college. I talked to sales associate Chris Plant in the Puyallup, Washington store. "Mainly I like to use a bait caster, Abu Garcia is usually my go to, rod wise, either Convergence or a Claris, right now the water temperature is about 75° to 77° depending on what lake you are on, I have been throwing top water mainly at night and early morning, so your jitterbugs, your poppers, buzz baits and things like that have been working pretty well. During the day when the sun is high and it has been beating down on the lake all day I have focused more on lily pads, structure, heavy cover like underneath the docks where there is going to be a lot of shade. Don't focus on places where the shade shifts a lot but instead where the shade will be all day long. A lot of the guys if you are going to be running a crank bait or something, I would run that between six and 12 feet. 6 feet is where you usually find a good thermocline where the water temperature changes. It is not so much a fact that they don't like warm water because they like warmer water then cooler water but they are kind of like us, when the sun is out there little bit lazy and at night when the sun goes down we are usually a little bit more active. At night they will be more active and feed more.