| Usually when you see an article about fishing for bass | | | | the wood, be it stumps, trees or logs. When it hits |
| in the winter the author always tells you to fish deep | | | | the wood and reflects off it is when I get my most |
| water. I am here to tell you just the opposite....fish | | | | strikes. The bass just seems like they can't stand it |
| shallow water in the winter. | | | | when that lure has an erratic movement from |
| The lake I fish most of the time is pretty small. The | | | | bumping off wood. |
| whole lake is 41 acres. Yep, that's not a typo, it's 41 | | | | Another place I like to fish the jig is in shallow water |
| acres. I fish this lake all spring, summer and fall but | | | | with big rocks. The bass will come there to warm up |
| like to fish it in the winter a few days after a cold | | | | since the rocks radiate heat from the sun. I have |
| front passes and the temperature warms up just a | | | | found the bass will be suspended in 2-6 feet of |
| little. Since I fish it all year, I know where the wood | | | | water above the rocks. I use SuspenStrips on my |
| in the water is in the shallows and that is the area | | | | lure and run it down a couple of feet and deadstick it. |
| that I fish. The bass will come up to the edge of the | | | | As you can see, your winter bass fishing doesn't |
| bank in a couple of feet of water to warm | | | | need to be in deep water that is boring to fish. I |
| themselves up. I like to fish a tube in these conditions | | | | have caught bass where the water around the edge |
| but have caught bass on a jig quite a few times too. | | | | of the lake thaws and the other parts of the lake is |
| I use a dark color jig usually black or blue with a | | | | still frozen. The bass like warmer water and that |
| splittail trailer and swim it down the side of the log. | | | | warm water and the bass both can be found in the |
| I will also use a coffin-bill crankbait and bump it off | | | | shallows. |