White Bass

[Bill Babler]

Guys and Gals, when looking for these white bass up the river systems, and on the main lake flats, you really need to fish these locations with very slow precision.

You are not for the most part going to see clouds of fish, and the entire flat is not covered with fish.

Next week, weather permitting, I will shoot some pic's of what they are looking like.

Just, no more than a heavy pencil line on the bottom no bigger than a 1/4 inch on your graph.

The bottom on most of these huge flats is just that, flat. If you see that pencil line or a color change on you graph, that is usually them.

They for the most part are sitting in small schools of 15 to 20 fish, lying right on the bottom. There may be 50 schools on the flat you are fishing, but they are not together, they are schooled in very small groups.

The only way to know if they are fish, is to drop that spoon, on to the line, and check.

It is impossible to pull onto these flats and fish them in an hour. It takes several hours unless you are extremely lucky to just drop on a school. Slow down and cover the flat with care. My gps tracker on the lowrance 37 is great for not fishing the same area, as it lays down my track.

Spoke to a guy the other day using a side view and he said they are so close to the bottom and so small grouped it takes a very keen eye to see them from the side. It takes a better eye to see them from the top, so fish slow, they are up both the Kings and James Rivers.

Good Luck