Crazy weather!

[BASSINMIKE]

Seeing that it is July and feels like Sept what do you guys think it will do to the bite. I fish a bypass canal big enough for a boat. It has alot of vegetation and structure to fish. What should I throw in this weather am I limited to flippin the heavy cover or should I be doing something different like throwing frog and horny toads, which is usually what I do this time of year there. Just trying to get an idea of where to start. I fish the late afternoon and evening so I don't have alot of time to fish. Let me know what you guys think.

Thanks
Mike

[BASSINMIKE]

Man 43 views and nobody has even a little hint on if I am on the right track or what else I should try.

[birdi23nls]

get use to that posting for fishing suggestions on this site. This site is good for a few different things, advice on fishing spots and techniques is not one of them. I haven't looked at the first few pages of the board but I would venture to say there will be vary little information of the nature you are asking.

One thing I have noticed about this site though, if you ask vary specific questions you are likely to get more responses and help. Still yet this site is or at least the boards are more for tournament fisherman than for the weekend warrior.

About your question, I don't know what the weather will do to the fish as I have not bass fished for 2 weeks now, which is a shame...I'm going to get after them starting monday though again. If I was fishing the delta right now, I would approach it the same way I normally would in that particular area. From what I have heard and read the fish have been acting a little goofy with some days being good for numbers and other days being good for size. See if there on a reaction bite and if not start pitching plastics. You'll figure it out.

[BASSINMIKE]

Thanks for the reply. I got the feeling I was not going to get much help but it was worth a try. I appreciate you taking the time to respond though.

Thanks
Mike

[dtacker]

Stick to your confidence baits for this time of year. Also can't help but think of throwing a black on black buzzbait with black lizard where you described! have fun!

[yjjustforme]

I haven't had much luck with buzzbaits myself. But for me the frog has been great especially since its a topwater that you can start and stop a presentation. It seems like the ones im hooking up with don't want to travel too far from the cover or structure they are hiding in. And just have a secondary bait tied up like a senko to throw if they miss your lure and don't commit to a second cast.

[BASSINMIKE]

That's what I have been doing it is good know I'm on the right track. Hopefully going tomorrow or monday we will see what happens.

[kane-o]

what lake are you fishing ?

[BASSINMIKE]

It is a big canal in northern California that rice fields drain into. When I say big I mean I have seen 20 foot rangers in there!

[Cooch]

Hey BassinMike, I have ta disagree with our birdi23nls friend, first off, this site is not just for tournament fishermen, that is the furthest thing from the intent of this site. There's a ton of content on this site, put out by a wide array of anglers that is here to specifically help the weekend warriors of bass fishing. It just so happens, this info is mostly supplied and put forward by mostly tournament anglers, they are the ones with the most experience typically, on any bass fishing website. It also is a fact that most of them, are out fishing on the weekends and not sitting in here at 9:00am on a Saturday morning surfing the internet, but in fact out fishing. I say give it a chance and don't be so quick to judge the lack of early response to yer post.

I think if yer canal is anything like the Delta, it's probably fairly shallow and loaded with vegitation, and those bass right now are burried deep in there, especially on these high sky days. With that in mind my first attempts would be to send a dark jig or t-rigged plastic bait right in there to em or as you mentioned, try an coax em out from above with a topwater bait that remians in the strike zone for longer periods. Ya get a day like yesterday, where we have some heavy cloud cover, a switch to reaction baits is a good bet as they will tend to chase more.

[Vernonn]

If I were to think about what a bypass looks like, my mind sees the Sutter bypass near Meridian. (I've never fished it and I don't know what it looks like in summer) Evening bite should be pretty agressive as it probably isn't too heavily fished. Frogs should be a good choice. I would think that your bypass might be near rice fields so it may attract some baby waterfowl. Poppers, spooks, buzzbaits should all work. If not, then try throwing a weightless wacky rigged Senko. What you throw depends on how much surface vegetation exists. Be versatile.
-vernon

[BASSINMIKE]

Thanks guys. Now I just have to find time to go. Weather is going to be back to normal by then

[Tin Can]

What is so crazy about the weather? Is it crazy for it to be sunny and warm in the summer? Seem normal to me.

[BASSINMIKE]

Well all last week it was in the 80's Saturday it look like rain to me in July that is a little crazy but maybe I'm wrong.

[jimmy87]

it seems to me that we say the weather is crazy every single year.
Do not get me wrong becauseI am guilty of it as well.

is it me or I am I the only one that thinks this?

[Tin Can]

We just tell ourselved that it's the weather when the bite isn't like it was last year. Helps us sleep better at night.

[yjjustforme]

Or when I pre fish Monday and get a 14 pound bag and fish the tourney wed night and catch 18 fish with only 1 Damn keeper!

[BASSINMIKE]

That sucks!