Deepest you've found Bass

Post by **Dcaster** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 7:20 am

Gidday there fellas
I've recently started learning my new home lake and have had mega success on the bass, however all my bass have generally been in 1-12 fow. And the lake gets much deeper then that, so my question to ya'll is what is the deepest you've found bass ? And any other info on what they were relating to at those depths is welcome as well or your techniques used for deeper bass fishing. Smallies and largies.....but man i wouldn't mind one bit if the smallies took over the lake.
Thanks in advance
Cheers

Post by **bl8ant** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 8:49 am

The deepest I have fished for smallies is 30-32 FOW in natural lakes around here. However, it isn't uncommon to catch them suspended over much deeper water.

I have had luck catching them on jerkbaits and surface baits over 60 fow. Not a pattern I can implement consistently but if the opportunity presents itself (in the form of schools of big fish under bait on the sonar or obvious surface activity) I try and take advantage of it.

Post by **nips** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 9:02 am

ive caught them in 60-80 fow on the st.lawrence

Post by **muskrat** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 9:21 am

I've caught smallmouth in 50-55 and the odd largemouth in 35-40 fow while jigging minnows, curly tail grubs and gulp minnows for walleye right on the bottom. They seemed to be relating to rocks.

Post by **Hookup** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 12:34 pm

Deepest personally os a smallie hitting topwater out of 32feet... But no idea if it was on the bottom or not

This past week I focused on deep(er) fishing using jigs...

My deepest is 23feet for a smallie as of now....

. Jigger on bottom, caught at depth.. Confirmed by humminbird.... Hahaha

Post by **uglyfish** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 1:32 pm

i fish smallies in 40-50' of water on lake erie during the summer and fall.
and largies ive caught in 35-40' of water.

Post by **Pike_Dreams** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 2:44 pm

We've pulled smallies out of Oneida Lake that were in 60+ feet.

Pike

Post by **cprince** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 3:40 pm

All the way into my duodenum.

OK... but seriously folks... Sunday we were catching smallies on top water in 20 to 30 FOW. Also getting them in that depth on worms and senkos wacky rigged after dark.

Craig

Post by **DropShotr** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 5:11 pm

In the fall I've taken LMB stacked in 40+FOW

Smallies........I've taken them down to and well past 50FOW especially in the St. Lawrence. Personally, I have issues fishing bass in 50+FOW....that's my rules here guys. I'm not trying to pass judgement on anyone. I just don't have the proper scientific knowledge on this issue, so I take the cowards way out and just do not persue bass that deep. I feel I may be killing every fish taken in that deep of water......and that's not cool.

DS

Post by **Dcaster** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 10:45 am

Thanks for all your replies,
greatly appreciated.

May you all have tight lines.

Post by **Dore** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 12:44 pm

I've catched smallies jigging for walleye in 25-31 FOW !

Post by **Trophymuskie** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 3:55 pm

First time ever using a downriger I nailed a 4 pound SM 40 feet down over 100 in Charleston lake. back in the good old days.