Summer time has come around and the fish are now moving to the deeper regions and mainlake points. This is usually a time for me where I either catch fish by the dozen or very little fish at all. Does anyone have some strong advice as far as presentation in this type of cover as well as go to baits?

Keep Fishin

-Assasin

I watch boat after boat fishing those points from the ends, casting toward the shoreline, bringing their baits out into open water. I find the wise bigger bass are positioned on the steeper slopes with deep water behind them, facing the point slopes where they do best pinning shad against the slope. They can watch motionless bottom and easily detect anything swimming towards the sope or along it. So what's happening down there with baits coming from shore outward? Bass are drawn ever deeper and away from those ambush places. As each angler mines the point the eligible bass are run deeper for the next angler, and scattered. It takes a while for those bass to re-orient to their preferred holding grounds, some still out searching open water for that escapee on the end of your line.

I work them exactly the opposite direction, positioning the boat along shoreline close to the point, fan casting parallel to the shore behind me, widening the angles until the bait is dropping in deep water and swimming towards the near slope. The bait covers the point backbone drawing bass toward shore. Once cast past the point to the far slope the bait is not drawing bass out but in where they want to remain until the bait is in the right position to attack it. I always have at least the bass on the far side not detecting my presence, and those on the near side have my bait coming straight to them, between them and the point slope  ;D Once the bait makes the full swing to the far shore across the point (with no takers) I either try another bait type for another full swing, or move on to the next point or hump. For humps I always cast over it to the far side deep water, moving the boat around the heel of the point, always drawing bass from deeper on the far side to shallower. That keeps the bass attached to the hump, not scattering them, and puts my bait between them and the slope surface where they can pin it down for the kill.

Jim

Thanks Jim much appreciation