Look For Wood Cover In Winter Bass Fishing!

Four Anglers Have Different Ideas on Finding Wooded Areas in Colder Winter Days!

You can find some great tips for fishing southern lakes for bass in winter in this video.  Watch it to get some good advice for winter fishing!  There is nothing like getting straightforward advice from experts who have tested their ideas.  Four experts discuss types of wood, such as a field of stumps or whole trees (laydown logs). Each guy has ideas about baits to use for their locations and preferences of areas to fish.  Their advice compliments each others so you end up learning something different from all four.

Ken Mah also talks about fishing in wood covers near deep holes. California lakes probably stay warmer the lakes in the Texas or the southeast so can take a modified approach.

Mah likes flipping/pitching winter wood with 1/4- to 3/8-ounce black and blue jigs with Big Bite Baits chunk trailers. Line choice is key for this deal. He’ll use fluorocarbon around old wood because it doesn’t dig in like braid.

Stephen Johnston in Texas looks for the biggest piece of wood. The water near the big wood is warmer so attracts fish well in cold lakes.  There could be bass near other wood in the area, but the odds are that they have moved to wherever it is warmest: the biggest wood.

Texas guide Stephen Johnston won’t waste time trying to fish every piece of wood available. Rather, The biggest piece of wood on a given bank will hold the greatest attraction. Not that smaller laydowns, logs, etc. won’t attract fish, but the larger the object, the more heat it holds.

Even a duck blind can provide some warmth for bass. There are large poles in the water to support the blinds and possibly added wood around the poles.  Greg Hackney knows how to fish these areas.  He offers advice about lures that work well around the blinds.

Elite pro Greg Hackney knows that a duck blind with deep water nearby can be on overlooked gold mine. He pitches jigs or Texas-rigged worms and creature baits around the edges and into the openings.

Read the full article at www.scout.com to learn more!