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Different Times of The Day
Question:
Hello, I am hoping that someone can help me out with this. I try to fish the Central St. John river from hwy 44 north to lake Dexter about 3 days a week. I go out at daylight and come back just before beginning work at 9am. I’m not really good at it yet but most mornings, I usually catch one, maybe two bass. Now I have started going in the evening from 6:30pm until just before dark. I am having the darnedest time trying to catch anything. I remember talking to a guy (a few months ago) that fished a alot. He had something about bass being in a different place in the evenings? Is this true? If so, what kind of places are they in during the evening hours? Thanks in advance! Regards, Dave WEB Software & Consulting, Inc. * USA Provide a valuable, automated service for businesses in your area, *** Operate a Remote Backup Service *** http://www.websoftware.com
Response:
Dave, >Now I have started going in the evening from 6:30pm until just before >dark. I am having the darnedest time trying to catch anything. I >remember talking to a guy (a few months ago) that fished a alot. He >had something about bass being in a different place in the evenings? >Is this true? If so, what kind of places are they in during the >evening hours?
Here’s something straight from the image, my bassin’ expert image, and this is new. I haven’t shared this scheme with the group before, so it might not fly like some of my other BS (bassin’ stuff). First of all, I know nothing specific about your river or your lake. So, you’ll have to figure some of this out on your own. Now, if you figure it out, then you’ll be able to apply it to other fishin’ places. During the summer months, the ugly suckers eat a few times a day. Now, they all seem to have a thing for breakfast, and they all seem to have supper. Now, I’d venture a guess that say’s all ugly suckers have lunch during the summer time, but I probably couldn’t get two of them at the table at the same time. Some might eat during the day, but a bunch of them probably pick up that third meal in the middle of the night. So, we basically have two dependable eating periods for bass during the summer – breakfast and dinner. Now, breakfast is run by the clock. As soon as it gets light, all bass go eat. On the other hand, supper isn’t as clockworthy because it’s hard to train all bass to go eat 60 minutes before sunset. So breakfast tends to be a short but intense eating period, whereas supper is longer but not as intense – well, something like that 
Now, bass like to go out to eat during the summer. They live at home in deeper darker cooler water – sometimes as deep as 40 feet. When the get hungry, they follow a road to shallow water and go hunting for bait fish to eat. Now, the roads bass follow are things like creek beds, feeder stream channels, points or ridges. In other words, they follow some structure to get where they want to go – they just don’t go from deep to shallow by the quickest route possible. Okay, when you go bassin’ early in the morning, you are catching fish when they are active – they are looking for stuff to eat and they are easy to catch. After you take off for work, the bass retreat to their daytime homes, where ever that may be. And when you come back in the evening, they haven’t come back for supper. Now, another thing you have to keep in mind is the bait fish might be located in a different place in the evening when compared to the morning. So, the bass might be out for supper, but they might be eating in a different place. So, here’s what you do – try to figure out the goto eat routes for the bass in the morning and in the evening. You know where they eat in the morning, so backtrack in your mind to where they go after they are done eating. The bass are looking for cooler water, shade and little or no current. Once you figure that out, you have half the problem licked. The other half involves figuring out where the bait fish spend their evenings. From what I can see, bait fish like shade, wind-blown places where stuff builds up, and a place with a bunch of little bugs around – sounds like weeds and things like that. Once you locate the evening bait fish, you will probably find the bass. Once you find the supper place, you should be able to figure out where the bass are located all the time. Also keep in might, bass don’t race up their roadways, they move up them, which means they kind of move slow. I can’t quite remember, but I think it has something to do with gas – or was that their air bladder? Well, something like that Richard