Kursten

Thank you everyone for the awesome advice. I just struggle so much on these ponds, I start to question weather there are even bass in them. The ponds are man made and just perfect circles with no difference in structure that I can see. But I will just stick to shallow fishing and hope I can catch some.

Hello and thank you in advance for the help, I always seem to get it here. I want to learn to fish from the bank more. I did have a jon boat and was getting off the bank,but that is no longer an option. So until I buy a kayak I am stranded on land. So I was wondering how I can fish deeper from the shore, I see people cast to the middle of the pond / lake, and I have never seen success in that. I have always seen bass a shallow water fish even though I know that is not the case. I have been fishing large ponds small lakes, whatever you might call it. I fish the banks for hours with every bait I have and there is little to no luck, So how should I go about fishing deeper and just chucking a lure into the middle. I think it will be hard to do that without having any clue what is on the bottom.

@Tom Right, which I was confused, so based on the surface temp you can guess what the bass are doing, sound right. I have just been really struggling catching fish.

Hello all! I have been bass fishing for a couple years now and I know water temperature is vital to finding bass. So I just want to know, when people are talking about water temps are the referring to the surface temp?