Team SweeetBass came out on top at Wallum Lake( the last tournament of the season), finding some lively top water action around mid morning which other wise was proving to be a slow day, giving them a solid weigh in.

    

  Team Sweetbass excepting there awards; left Julian Brytowski, right Joe Verdini.

  To see video of there presentation click image above!

 

When fishing for prespawn bass, pinpoint areas that have water warm enough for the bass to move into the shallow water. Look for bass in places where prespawn bass hold like little rocky points, riprap, dock pilings and weedline edges in 3-5 feet of water. Try these tips:
Use a small- to a medium-diving crankbait on rocky points, generally in a crawfish pattern or a chartreuse crankbait with a red belly, depending on the color of the water in that section of the lake. Fish the crankbait on 10- to 12-pound-test line.

Fish a suspended minnow bait – a jerkbait that you can get down in a certain zone by varying the angle of the lip – in riprap. Throw it on light line, like clear 10-pound-test line, so you can watch the line for the strike.

Use a Carolina rig, a 1/2-ounce sinker, a 3-foot leader and a soft-plastic bait when fishing weedlines. Rig on a 2/0 hook and use a 7-foot rod. Keep your boat in the grass or very close to the edge of the grass, and parallel the edge of the grass with your casts. Look for weed points, weed indentions or maybe a rock pile on the edge of the weeds to locate a spot where bass tend to school-up.

Bass fishing is an analytical process. You analyze all the conditions for that given day, and then you make your best guess as to where fish are located and what it’ll take to catch them.
Then about the time you’ve got them figured out, along comes a weather change and the deck is shuffled. Sound familiar?

Denny Brauer is one of the superstars on the professional bass circuit. He’s won many tournaments and much acclaim for his fish-catching ability. And, one of Brauer’s strengths is being able to figure out how bass react when the weather changes.

Let’s say you’re on a good pattern, and then a cold front blows through. The fish are going to respond to this change, and Brauer says anglers must do likewise if they’re going to keep getting bites.

“Obviously, I’m going to be monitoring the weather and some types of fish. If I see that the weather forecast is going to turn a certain a way and its going to devastate that pattern, it’s probably not going to be something I seek out to start with.”

If the weather changes, Brauer says solving the weather puzzle is about self examination.

“Ask yourself what the conditions are forcing the bass to do. Your past history and your past experience should tell if you need to back off a little bit. Maybe they suspended off the points and you need to crankbait, maybe they moved in tight to the bushes and you need to move in there because it’s bright and sunny out all of a sudden. So it’s usually a common sense deal, just ask yourself what’s changed, what would you do under those conditions, and a lot of times what you do, the bass would are doing the exact same thing.”

Study a lake, the fishermen and the baits they most often use to pinpoint the high-pressure regions. Then you’ll know the target sites where many sportsmen are fishing, and the depths of water most of their baits are covering. For instance, visible targets like points that look as though they will hold bass, trees, and bushes close to shore are places any bass fisherman will point out and say, 'I bet bass are there.'
Search an isolated stump well off the bank that you only can find by crashing a crankbait into it. Also, look for a segment of water through which baits aren’t being run. If most anglers are fishing deep-diving crankbaits or plastic worms, which cover the bottom, and buzzbaits and top-water lures, which run along the surface, fish a medium-diving crankbait to pass through the middle story of water that’s not receiving any pressure – which should be where the big bass are holding

Use the slowest-moving baits in your tacklebox, like a jig and pork trailer, for making it through a fast-moving cold front. In clear water, back off from your target area, cast to it, and use a slow retrieve. In stained water, move in closer and flip the jig and trailer combination. In warming conditions, use a plastic worm. In a cool-down, fish the jig and frog. On a fast-moving front, move up to a bush or a treetop, and fish the heart of a tree.
If fishing the day a fast-moving cold front hits, bounce the bait off the fish’s nose, and get it to react instinctively. Or, irritate the bass into biting by thoroughly fishing a particular area. Work the cover to make a fish bite.

If you’re fishing ahead of a slow-moving cold front, and you see the bass feeding on shad, use baits that most imitate the shad, like a swimming, minnow-type plug, a medium-to shallow-running crankbait or spinnerbaits. If bass are chasing shad on shallow flats, fish the buzzbait. When fishing any type of front, spend more time with your bait in the water to catch more bass.