Entry 116-1

Shaw Grigsby on How to Catch Bass in August and September

Hunt Shade

Editor's Note: Shaw Grigsby of Gainesville, Florida, a well-known professional angler, enjoys fishing all the Strike King baits, especially the spinnerbaits. He has a TV show titled "One More Cast" on the Outdoor Life Network (OLN). This week he will discuss the baits needed to reel in success during the hottest months of the year.

Grigsby: In August and September, the hottest part of the year, look for the bass to be in the shade. If you are fishing a major reservoir, search for creeks, and head to the backs of the creeks. If you can find an old creek channel, often right where the old creek channel enters the lake, you will see that the old creek channel is silted-up. If you can, use your trolling motor to get through the mouth of that old creek channel, and you will usually find a lot of shade and a lot of cover. The water will be cooler because the banks will usually be extremely well-shaded.

In these areas, I like to fish the Premier Elite Spinnerbait down the banks. The Bleeding Bait series has been the best one for me because this bait has a lot of flash and seems to call bass to it. I like to slow roll the spinnerbait when I get into these conditions in these creeks. I will cast up to the banks, slow roll the spinnerbait off the bank and then let the lure fall down into the creek channel. Your steeper creek channels will be your best places to find bass now. Usually if you can find a piece of brush on a creek channel in the backs of those creeks, a bass will be holding there. This technique works not only when the weather is hot, as it is now, but it will also produce later into the fall when the weather starts to cool down.




 

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