On my home lake the bass have started to school this is something new to us so I have some questions. 1. Do bass school at night? 2. What baits do you find work good ? We have caught them on crank baits, topwater and wacky worms. 3. Any other tips you have or oddities about scholling bass that you have noticed.  PS. This type fishing can be addictive.

Largemouth or smallies/spots?

 

On largemouth, flukes are my favorite lure for schooling fish. Normally just cast into the school and let the fluke sink, typically gets hit on the drop.

 

For spots, rattletraps and spooks get the nod. Pretty much can’t work the bait fast enough for schooling spots, traps work well for that. As an added bonus they cast a good ways pretty accurately making it easy to cast wherever the school pops up.

 

I don’t have any experience with schooling smallmouth.

4 hours ago, bigbassin' said:

Largemouth or smallies/spots?

 

On largemouth, flukes are my favorite lure for schooling fish. Normally just cast into the school and let the fluke sink, typically gets hit on the drop.

 

For spots, rattletraps and spooks get the nod. Pretty much can’t work the bait fast enough for schooling spots, traps work well for that. As an added bonus they cast a good ways pretty accurately making it easy to cast wherever the school pops up.

 

I don’t have any experience with schooling smallmouth.

Thanks

4 hours ago, uglyasheck said:

 On my home lake the bass have started to school this is something new to us so I have some questions. 1. Do bass school at night? 2. What baits do you find work good ? We have caught them on crank baits, topwater and wacky worms. 3. Any other tips you have or oddities about scholling bass that you have noticed.  PS. This type fishing can be addictive.

 

depends on water clarity, how much wind, brightness, time of day, and cloud cover, go from there, shady baits work very for 90% of fisheries, if yours is different throw baits that immitate the forage, so many good baits for schooling bass, throw everything because some bass will hit some things and some bass will hit others. topwaters will work good if water clarity is there and they arent schooling deep.

An active school of fish will hit just about anything.  My favorite bait to throw is probably a JB.  

Shallow schools or deep schools . Some years I find a deep school or two in the fall . They are easy to catch once located . My two favorite baits are a plastic worm or Red Eye Shad fished like a worm . I'll use a 3/4 ounce RES if the fish are beyond 15 foot , a 1/2 ounce shallower .

Normally there in what we would call deep 15-25 foot. But there coming to the top.