Hey, this is one of my first posts and I just wanted to say hello to all the people on this forum, i'm a newbie when it comes to fishing and i've learned a ton already from reading all the articles on this site.
The last couple days i've fished two different lakes and have gotten few bites each time. Today I hit a few bass in the face with a couple different lures and they just sat there and shot me the bird. One bass in particular was kind of pacing back and forth real close to the bank like it was guarding something and no matter what I threw over there it ignored it. I'm wondering if this is a behavior of a spawing bass or what?? Yesterday, at another lake, I noticed the bass feeding on huge groups of tiny shad close to the bank but again they wouldnt bite anything i threw at them. I guess my question is, how do you know when bass are spawning? (the weather here has been cooler than usual for this time of year, today it actually got up in the 80's but its mostly been in the 50's when the sun goes down and 60's during the day). Also, is it strange to actually slap a bass in the face with a lure and still get no bite? or do I just really suck at fishing?