Lake Mead Largemouth

Went to Lake Mead last weekend. I heard the bass were up on beds, but I didn't find any. The water was very clear, so I didn't see alot of bass action, or milling around. But with the water that clear its hard to tell, because I could have been scaring them or else they were deep out of eye site. Either way I only caught one bass, the one in the photo. Caught it on a Rapala X-shad rap(light blue back). Tossed a few different lures this day, jigs, crank baits, scrounger head jigs and some jerk baits. The crank baits and jerk baits where the only thing I got any attention from the bass with. Water temp was 58 degrees, and air temps were around 70 but it was a bright blue bird day so fishing was tough.

Southern Nevada Pond Largemouth

Went to Floyd Lamb Park today. It was really windy and cloudy. It was hot out, so the clouds were a welcome, but the wind can go away! The wind was blowing so bad it was almost impossible to cast a fly rod. I have been hitting up the pond all winter experimenting with different fly patterns with no luck. I was not even really seeing any bass activity. But we have been having very warm days and warm nights this week, so I figured the bass would be active. I guessed right. Unfortunately there were so many people at the park it was impossible to fish it correctly, just all the activity made for poor fishing. But I did manage to get into one, and get a few other strikes. I was bouncing a green pumpkin jig with a green pumpkin trailer off the bottom and around stumps. I got a few strikes with this method. But I did notice a small bass chase my jig to the surface when I pulled it in. That gave me and idea to try and swim the jig around the shoreline. That was the ticket. After about the third cast swimming the jig I got bit and landed the bass in the picture, well I hooked it and let the little guy reel it in.