Today I went to a small man made lake to fish and noticed at two separate locations that the bass were in groups of 3-4 fish moving through the shallows.  
 

I’ve seen this before but it was earlier during the pre-spawn and to a lesser degree the spawn.  I haven’t seen it since then.   I’ll admit I’m no expert but I’ve never heard of bass doing this in the late summer.  Am I missing something or is this a common occurrence this time of year?

I commonly see small schools of smaller male bass hunting up shallow. Kind of like a wolf pack. It’s definitely more of an early summer thing around here but I’ve seen these wolf packs all times of the year. Usually they’re easily caught. 

8 minutes ago, bp_fowler said:

Today I went to a small man made lake to fish and noticed at two separate locations that the bass were in groups of 3-4 fish moving through the shallows.  
 

I’ve seen this before but it was earlier during the pre-spawn and to a lesser degree the spawn.  I haven’t seen it since then.   I’ll admit I’m no expert but I’ve never heard of bass doing this in the late summer.  Am I missing something or is this a common occurrence this time of year?

 

I saw similar behavior when going up into a creek that feeds into the lake I fish. We were going up one side of it, and then saw 3 bass dash out from the cover and move to the other side to a shady spot. I tossed out my lure and caught one of them. Not sure if this is regular behavior this time of year, but I saw almost the same thing you did. 

 

This was up in shallow water about 3-4 feet deep.

Very common, fish usually group up in similar size ranges and wolf pack roam around for forage.

 

 

Fairly common. I see bigger groups at other times of the year, but nearly always see some shallow, though that behavior is more prevalent in certain bodies of water than others. Here’s a shot I took last fall. You can see at least 10 bass in this group that were just running the banks.

 

Well learned something new today.  I never knew that this happened outside of the springtime. Thank you all who responded.