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Can someone give me some tips on when is the best time to fish for largemouth bass what month and time? please I'm 15 and don't really know much about when they bite the best any tips will help thanks.?

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Best? Not sure because I fish year round. They'll bite in winter too. Spring to early summer is a time when you find more fish shallow. In the colder months I like to fish in the middle of the day. As it turns toward summer, I start gong early or late, mostly early. I like to get out before sunrise and I'm usually done by 11:00-ish. I like topwater fishing and that's best in low light conditions. Even in summer you'll catch more bass shallow early and late.

 

When you have a full-time job and family the best time to go is whenever you can.

This is just my opinion...

 

You mention the "best time", for me it's anytime the bass are biting. I've had good runs at midnight and good runs at noon, and any time in between. So to me, the best time is whenever I can get out and the weather cooperates, but I prefer early am.

 

I do prefer to fish when it's cloudy, as opposed to bright sun. A light rain or a light breeze is fine too.

 

Mostly I go by the weather.

 

As far as the months, I'm in New England so we're not the same, but any month the temps are in the 50's and up. We don't get scorching hot here, so don't know if it can be too hot to fish.

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Go whenever you can and likely one of the most universal baits you can throw.....the Texas rigged plastic worm ?

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First welcome aboard John. Your in prime time in Tn. right. I just returned from Dale hollow and the LM were turned on in shallow water. And as  @Bird said you can’t go wrong with soft plastics to start. Good luck ?

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Best time to fish for them is when you have time to. There's lots of rules out there for when "the best", times are, but fish can't read. 2 of my best days of fishing were in winter time. One day started -2 when we launched and never made it above 25*. I caught 1 over 7, 1 over 6.5, and my buddy caught a 5 to go along with 20 other solid fish in the 3-3.5lb range that day. 

 

The other day was barely into the 30's and I caught so many fish I lost count, bass and wipers. My biggest 5 bass were 30lbs 2oz, my biggest 5 fish limit ever in Kansas. 

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^ What Blue said.

 

I.E.: There are those who say a calm, clear day in mid-summer near noon is one of the worst times to fish...the bass in my avatar pic disagrees with that.

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Don't worry about the best time, just get out there and fish. If you can put baits in front of their faces, you'll get a few bites it's just a matter of finding them

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Welcome to the forum. Fish whenever you have the time to fish and focus on having fun. 

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Welcome aboard!

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From Tennessee , they bite all year . Go when its comfortable for you .

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@john nowell 

How Y'all Are ?

 

Best time to go?

Any time you can go!

 

Best time they bite?

The day before you get there & the day after you leave!

 

Seriously, time on the water, go as often as possible. 

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Welcome to bass fishing.

Start simple with 1 rod reel combo and soft plastics. Depending on what tackle you have like spinning or bait casting helps to determine the lures to use and where to use them.

Read BR articles on how to fish with Texas rigged soft plastic worms and wacky rigged Senko’s. 

Tom

Didn't mention if you were on the bank or on a boat, spring, and fall are typically the "best" times for fishing from the bank, summer go as early in the day as possible, right around sunrise, winter you'll want to go as late in the day as you can, and you will probably catch fewer fish. All of that goes out the window if your on a boat, because you can follow the fish off shore as water conditions change. Best baits etc I'd say start with a 7ft medium fast spinning rod, a 3000 or so size reel, and a few bags of senko's, green pumpkin and black/(accent color here) to start, buy some offset round bend hooks around 4/0 size, and some 1/4oz bullet weights, try them both weightless and with the bullet weights and you'll figure out pretty quick when to go which direction. 

I wouldn’t worry about the best month or time…just fish whenever you can.  It’s like anything else in life…some of the best growth is achieved through failure.  Just keep it simple and study/focus on basic bass behavior.  Bass are structure/cover/edge oriented predators and that should influence your potential target areas.

 

As @WRB suggested, IMO one of the best baits to start out with is a weightless or lightly weighted wacky rig.  They are simple and forgiving, will allow you to develop both feel and line watching skills, and can cover the entire water column in shallow to medium depths.  If you are in heavy cover, I would switch to a t-rig.

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