Bass and bream fishing has remained pretty much steady throughout the course of a day in June with the bass most actively feeding early in the mornings on lures such as swim baits and spinner baits and senkos thrown into grass pockets/cuts. The shad spawn is over for the most part but keep a spinner bait and swim bait tied on and handy as they will come up schooling. When you come across isolated, thicker clumps of grass/reeds have your flipping/pitching stick handy with either a creature-style lure like a Gene Larew Hoo-Daddy or crawdad tied on and pitch in the thickest/shadiest part that you see and hang on. This is where you’ll find the “nitch” fish – typically a bigger bass that has claimed that area. Normally that’s your kicker fish! Other lures to have tied on and handy are: rattle trap and shallow-running crank bait if fishing the lake…..big worms out in more open-water areas are working and senkos in thicker areas of vegetation work great.
The bream and shell cracker bite is in full force and both have been active on/around the beds since early May timeframe. When fishing for either one, I stick with a small red worm rigged on a 4-foot ultra-light spinning rod/reel tipped with a small round split shot weight, bobber with a stop located above/below the bobber and small hook with a longer shank. The bream are being caught the Kissimmee river edges; along the Clewiston channel area(s); around both point of Rita/Kreamer Islands, parts of East/West wall and uncle joe’s area. On the North-end around Dupree bar; flat areas of the channel leaving the Harney Pond ditch; point of Horse and 2nd/3rd points.
