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Finding largemouth

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jibbs:
I look for 15 to 18 on oversized golden shiners or big suckers...a big flat near deep water usually works best for us...good luck

Whopper Stopper:
Around here the weeds hold a lot of the bass. I sight fish and anywhere from 2'-8' if the weed growth is sufficient the bass cruise in. Often you will see 5-6 in a school of like sized fish.

             WS

captain54:
Very easy fish to target,always seem to bite. They take panfish jigs with bait or plastic. Tip ups with shiners. Anywhere from shallow weeds to 18-20 on flats. They definitely school together in similar size pods. I found a small piece of structure in 18 fow and just had ridiculous fishing, I caught 40 some bass out of one hole on Forage minnow, even though they where 12-14 " they provided some entertainment for the day. I really never target them,but when Panfish are non existent I'll go find a bass bite.

njsfishon16:
I usually use a #5 rapala with the glow natural perch along the outside weed edge.  Try to match the color to the type of forage bait that is in your lake.  The  jigging rapala is designed as a swimming bait so I try to fish it 1-2 ft off the bottom and slowly lift it about 2-3 ft and let it swim down and then thrum it constantly with about a 1 inch up and down motion.  Good luck this season.

Nightbrown25:
I like to fish structures that goes from the swallow and breaks to deeper water. I set tip ups along these and let the bass tell me what depth they are at that day. Schools of big bass seem to be deeper most of the time and there feeding window is much shorter than the smaller bass. You can have good structure without bass but you will never have bass without good structure. It can be tough to find big bass if you don't know the structure of the lake you are fishing. I open water fish almost every lake I ice fish. So I know the structures and the depths of the lake most of the time. I have caught bass in 8 fow on a small break. The next day went back to the same spot and didn't catch them till I moved out to 22 feet of water.  There is nothing better than finding a feeding school of big bass. It doest happen often that's what makes it special.  Good luck

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