As we move into June, grass on the lake will be getting very thick and days will be getting very hot. As the water temps rise, bass’s metabolisms will speed up rapidly and this should make them feed more often and more aggressively…if that’s even possible considering how amazing the bite has been for months now!
Top-water lures like walking baits, buzzbaits and frogs, both hollow-body and buzzing types, will be getting big ones to eat. Typically, the top-water bite is best in the early part of the day, but when the conditions are right, it can be an all-day affair. I’ve had numerous days where the frog bite gets better later in the day. This is because as the sun gets high, bass will migrate to grassy places to hide in the shade and ambush prey and frogs are hard to beat in this scenario.
Walking baits like a Zara Spook or a Bagley Knocker B will get the most explosive bites you’ve ever had. I can’t explain why, but bass just have an extremely violent reaction to these baits and when they strike, they literally explode on them making for incredible fun!
Bass will also be prowling deeper grass edges and falling for spinnerbaits, cranks, jerkbaits, chatterbiats and of course worms. Sometimes you’ll have to search many different spots to find a school of hungry fish, but when you find them it will be fast action that can result in a lot of really big fish in a short time.
The shad spawn should come to an end by June which means they’ll be on the move so if you can find them, you can find the bass.
The shellcracker bite was on fire in May and might continue into the early June but bream should be bedding all over the lake by now so get your wrigglers, crickets and bobbers ready. Keep a weightless soft plastic jerkbait tied on while sitting on those bream beds because big bass will be on the prowl there too.
Good fishing and God bless.
CAPT. RANDY “C-NOTE” CNOTA
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