With Summer about midway the warm water lakes and ponds are beginning to weed up. Lily pads and underwater weeds beds become major lurking places for fish.
Bass and Pike, both ambush hunters, often lay in wait in such locations. They also shelter them from the sun and flying predators. Over the last couple weeks as the weed growth has really gotten going we have been concentrating a lot time fishing along the edges of the Lily pads and these underwater weed beds.
Fishing the pads is a lot like fishing docks, casting right on the edge leaves and then dragging the lure off so it drops right off the edge. Some people get right in the pads and drop stuff down, basically jigging for them. With the underwater weed beds its usually a cast into the weed bed and pulling the bug out onto the edges.
Montana Largemouth Bass
The Bass seem to get up closer to shore over night and in the early morning and as it warms they sometimes move out into deeper water. Early on we have been fishing from the shoreline out to the weeds and then as it warms we switch to fishing the deeper side of the weed edges.
