If you are looking for a good time on the lake; looking for
some easy catching and great results chasing the schooling fish
could be just what you need. When I get a customer in the boat
in August and all they are looking for is a way to catch fish
regardless of size then I start hunting the schooling bass.
The first thing I do is rig up a couple of rods each for the
customer to choose from; I put a rattle bait on one rod and a
top water bait on another and we go hunting schooling bass.
August begins the start of the grouping of bait fish and bass
and as the big bait balls move throughout the lake the bass
chase them. The great thing about the schooling bass is it could
be a small white bass, a monster striper or just loaded with
largemouth and or spotted bass. Regardless of which species when
the bass are schooling they become competitive and if you reach
them with your bait you can pull in fish after fish.
Excellent Quality and affordable.
One
thing I have learned about schooling bass over the many years of
fishing them is you can tell whether or not they are largemouth
or white bass and stripers before you ever catch a fish. In most
cases you will find that the white bass and stripers are very
sensitive to the trolling motor noise, and if you are not
interested in catching the white bass you will find that they
are difficult to catch up to. You will troll to where the action
was and they are gone and appear 75 yards away, if you can’t
catch up to them then they are the stripers and white bass. The
largemouth and spots seem to ignore your trolling motor noise
when they are schooling and will be easier to stay in contact
with. This of course is not a perfect science but generally I
find is correct.
The other good news is schooling fish generally hold some big
large mouths below them, so if you get tired of the little bites
change to deeper bait, you have a great chance of catching a big
fish on the bottom underneath them!
