bassmasters, help me out!

[andymansavage]

I live in Utah and have only bass fished for a few years. I mostly fish in the springtime from a boat in some private lakes in the desert. We have great success with spinnerbaits and Texas rigged worms, and catch 30-40 bass per day each, most in the 2-4 pound range.
I live five minutes from Utah lake and want to learn how to fish it for bass, as it has a healthy largemouth population. The lake is BIG, covering thousands of acres. It is very shallow, 10 feet at the deepest,and murky. It has a muddy bottom, with little structure and the shoreline is predominantly reeds. The daytime air temps right now range from 30-45 degrees.

How should I fish right now, and what should I use??

Thanks for any tips
Andy
My friend's private lakes(yes, I only wear those glasses fishing)

[BLH]

I would throw spinnerbaits, soft plastics, or crankbaits (to cover a lot of water in order to find fish) at any cover or main points. Being winter time, I would concentrate on deep points with deep running crankbaits. Winter bass love these ambush points for shad. Try it and see how it goes.

[gfourhunter]

i agree with blh, but rember to SLOW down and fish the west side of the lake, it worms up first in cold weather.

[fisherguy]

If there isn't much shoreline structure look on a depth map, or get out in the boat and look for mid-lake reefs, humps, or weed beds. I do well on that kind of structure for all types of fish since those areas are often overlooked on big flat bottomed lakes.

[VABuckSlayer]

I would start out by throwing a suspending jerkbait like a Rattling Rogue or a Husky Jerk. Fish it slow and let it sit for 3-5 seconds at a time. Slow rolling a spinnerbait near the bottom should work as well. The other guys ideas are good to. Keep trying something different til the bass tell you what they want. When you catch one pay attention to where he was (depth, point. ect) and that will help you find and catch more. Good luck!

Eric

[Hillbilly]

I would also throw some spinnerbaits also. Keep the reeling slow, cause these bass are real active yet. Still cold in your air temps. Throwing a spinnerbait in the winter is always a deadly weapon. Also you might wan a hook up a trailer. A worm/or pork trailer.

[LifeNRA]

Head to the northern-western part of the lake, keep an eye on water temps. Throw search baits, spinnerbaits, jerkbaits, and crankbaits! If you find some, try a jig & pig with a PORK trailer, not plastic! Plastic doesnt like colder water! Work the jig real slow!

Good luck!

[Hillbilly]

I'd also go around the lake your at and find some big rocks and throw that jig and pork trailer around. Like NRA said, just jig it real slow. Tap it up and down real slow.

The big Larries will go nuts!

[andymansavage]

Thanks all, I live on the nothwest corner of the lake and it sounds like that's the place to start. I love fishing spinnerbaits and will give it a shot this week.

[LifeNRA]

I was looking at this lake on some GPS mapping program, lake is sorta round in shape. Unfortunately I dont have the GPS maps for lakes or I could have given you some better suggestions! LOL! I might look inot this though!

[andymansavage]

Well it looks like my experiment will have to wait. My 10 month old baby boy has come down with bronchitis and ear infections. My wife has family in town so I have baby duty for now. Mabye next week. Have a good one!

Me and Parker

[Hillbilly]

Hope the little baby gets feeling well.

[coles]

dont know what to tell you. i just wish we had bass around here. i miss fishing for them. fishing for trout is not very exciting. just trolling. i hope the baby feels better.