By
Reed Montgomery
Reeds Guide Service (205) 787-5133
Website: www.FISHINGALABAMA.com
Lake Martin in May
As Lake Martin returns to full pool during May, many bass
are in less than five feet of water lake wide. Most bass
have spawned by the first week of May and some big female
bass are found feeding and recuperating, in or near the
shallow spawning grounds.
The availability of baitfish now determines the location
of schools of post-spawn bass. This is also the beginning
of a summertime feeding trend, that will last for the next
3 months.
Targeting these schooling bass with lures such as jerkbaits,
rattling lipless lures, crankbaits and topwaters, can bring
fast and furious action all summer long.
Look
for baitfish skipping across the water’s surface
or bass schooling on top. These are signs of bass down below.
Get a lure to em' fast, for they often vanish as fast as
they appeared.
Experiment this spring, not only with your lure presentations
and lure color choice, but be selective with lure choice
to. For the month of May is the time a bass will hit any
lure in the box.
Also keep in mind during these three months of spring, that
bass will often be in a post-spawn mode upriver, coming off
the beds, while lower lake bass could still be spawning.
As lake levels again return to normal, full pool levels,
with newly flooded shallows, many bass will forage in the
often stained water.
As spring slowly comes to an end look for early summer bass
to gather in the backs of feeder creeks and near the lake's
headwaters, relating to wood cover, rock cover and cooler
water, as they come off the beds.
Flipping, pitching or just casting worms, tube baits, lizards
and jig combos, now gets the big bass bite from hungry, post-spawn
largemouth's and some aggressive spotted bass, all found
lake wide on Lake Martin this spring season.
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Thanks, and Good Fishin'
Practice catch and release year-round especially this Spring.
You won't regret it!
Good Fishin'...
Reed Montgomery / Reeds Guide Service
Website: www.fishingalabama.com
