Egg-Frying Bass Fishing

In highland reservoirs, the bass move deeper in the lakes as the weather heats-up. To fish highland reservoirs at this time of year, use soft plastics. To catch big bass, fish a 10- a 12-inch plastic worm with a 3/8- to 1/2-ounce slip sinker on 15-pound-test line. If the bass won’t take a big worm, fish a 4- or a 5-inch worm with a 3/16-ounce slip sinker on 8-pound-test line to get a bite. Rig both of these worms Texas style. Also, another hot-weather technique extremely deadly in clear, deep water is dropshotting. In a lowland reservoir after the spawn, bass will move out of the shallows and often school-up in 8 to 15 feet of water. Fish watermelon-shad crankbaits with pearl-colored bodies and green backs in extremely-shallow water. When summer temperatures climb past 90 degrees, and most other anglers fish deep water for bass, fish shallow water. In most reservoirs, a year-round population of bass exists in shallow water.