One of my favorite ways to fish deep weeds or open pockets is to flip a jig or Texas-rigged creature bait

Ill rely heavily on the side and down imagingthatmyelectronics provide me with, to locate these intricacies hiding away from the bank

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Summer 2018

I won’t deny it; or hide the fact that I am a self-proclaimed bank beater. What this means is that if I can target bass by fishing shoreline cover, I will!

Jack Gavin

VEGETATION

Some lakes are loaded with vegetation. These weedlines can extend out from shore into deeper water, offer plentiful habitat, food and cooler water during the summer months for bass to live in.

The downside to having such an abundance of vegetation means there is a lot of water to cover and covering all of that water isn’t always possible, nor always the best way to spend your time.

When fishing offshore weeds, the first thing I like to do is to try and determine what type of vegetation is holding bass, is it cabbage, coontail or milfoil.

Once I know what type of weed is holding the biggest bass, I can look for that specific type of vegetation in other areas of the lake.

Finding the spot-on-the-spot in these weeds is important to being able to load the boat with big bass in a short amount of time. Sometimes this sweet spot could be an open water pocket in the weeds.

Down at the bottom of these open pockets could be rock or a bare spot in the weeds where the bass will be camped out on.

I’ll rely heavily on the side and down imaging that my electronics provide me with, to locate these intricacies hiding away from the bank.

To get an idea of where to look I’ll run a LakeMaster mapping chip in my units and utilize the depth shading feature to aid in keeping my boat in the correct depth.

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