Mr Steve your right on.Went yesterday muddy water cold water temp 44 degrees Sunny day caught 6 lb 5 oz Bass on Chatterbait on rock caught 3 water still so cold Thank you.first time out this year.
Another great video Steve! I’ll be forwarding your channel to my friends in Tennessee. I’ve been watching a lot of your videos lately and have been very impressed! Thanks for all the useful information.
Thank you! It took me a long time to get past my fear of cold, muddy water for sure. Just had to force my brain to stay positive and look at the benefits.
1/8 ounce with colar twisted off with z man black gold streak super glued in place. proper presentation nearly impossible from boat unless u r moving with wind or a pole and swing jig along side dock poles, along sea wall, rock walls, boat ramps etc. simple but slow process but u can honestly catch every single fish there is off that structure. technique swing to foot off bottom. let sit motionless. jiggle or pop in place to give that fish the extra help to say here I am right here hold hold wait pop bam. no go move up 2-3 feet repeat. repeat till run out of cover and rework as fish move in and out very very extremely effective till about week two after mothers day or up to when they have found where they are going too bed. mood changes not even same fish than. I switch to walleye at this point. the swing or drop is done on tight line grab lure one hand rod in other drop so it swings down slower the better mono leader best flouro sinks too fast too heavy. lighter jig its hard to fish in wind. deadly 100 bite days on those days u gamble your job.
I really like a jig in cold muddy water. Something lighter so it falls slow. If you are fishing a river system I start looking in shallow water. If you are fishing a lake that is muddy I would look for some vertical structure like a bluff, sea walls, complex dock system, etc, and see if I can determine what depth they are hanging at and then apply that to other areas, but I would focus on the hardest structure cover I can find in that dirty water. I hope this helps some. Good luck!
Great question. Where I live and fish the most, in northern Illinois, I consider below 50 getting into that cold range. I spend a lot of time fishing water in that 45-50 degree mark. In different parts of the country though, that cold water could be somewhere between 50-55.
I fish in a canal that has lots of bass but they aren't biting, there is a little bit of wood and grass, the canal is probably 3-5 feet deep and I can't figure what they are biting on.
If it is similar to some of the canals I have fished around my location, I would take either a jig or a small worm or a Ned Rig, and just drag it slowly across the bottom. I'm assuming being a canal the water has a little color to it. Find the deepest portion if you can - even if it only a slightly deeper hole. Being that the overall canal is shallow, I would bet they are hanging in the absolute center in the deepest place they can find. At least that is what I would try if you are in a location where it is cold right now.
@@fishguy9704 I have found for me personally, I do the best targeting the most vertical structure I can find - bluff bank, 45 degree bank, etc. If is rock, that is even better. But man-made stuff like a sea wall works too. Those winter fish can stay very close to hard structure because of the mud, but can also move up and down without covering much distance horizontally. That is where I would start under those types of conditions. I hope this helps.
Great question. This time of year in those temps I try to find some hard structure like rock, sea walls, docks, etc., that absorb the sun's heat and fish those areas very slowly. For example, my dock at my house sits right along some rock I have put on the shore for erosion and it will load up with bass in water at those temps. The middle of the day seems to attract the most.
@@SteveRogersOutdoors I understand all that sir, but my main thing is im from Washington State and I live in North Dakota now and not used to fishing them kind of temps and never heard of ice out lol. Once water warms up these lakes I have no issue on. It's just after Ice out I don't know how to approach them for the layout of the lakes are different than anything I fished as far as structure no standing timber no docks ect. The list goes on. How should I approach those conditions Bean main structures of lakes are Sand Pebble rock some boulders manly just flats.
