Article: Jerk Shads for Spring Bass. Summer bass fishing can be tough. The longer days, hotter temperatures and direct sunlight can send bass from the shoreline areas to deeper summer haunts. The best times to fish are early morning, the last two hours of daylight, cloudy days and nighttime.
While productive depths during the early summer are dependent on the lake, I like 6 to 12 feet of water. During the height of summer, bass may move as deep as 15 or 20 feet, especially in clear water. Weeds have grown by summer and bass will relate to them. Weed edges that are well defined, like a wall of weeds, will hold the best fishing. These edges are usually so defined because of a drop-off bordering the weeds.
Early morning bass will be positioned toward the outside, so pull right up to the weed edge and fish parallel to it. Use crankbaits, spinnerbaits or jigs. Try slow-rolling the spinnerbait along the bottom as close to the weeds as possible. During the day, bass will move toward deeper water or deeper inside the weeds. When the sun is high, always fish the shady side of cover no matter how deep or shallow. Cast a frog into the weeds, pausing and twitching the bait at any openings.
Pitch a jig into the same openings—you may need a heavy jig to break through the canopy. In deeper lakes, some largemouths will seek out cooler water by moving to offshore structure such as small- to medium-sized gravel, hard bottom or shell beds.
Underwater humps surrounded by deeper water, long points that lead to deep water, areas where the channel swings close to shore, sunken brush piles, fallen trees and channels or deep depressions in coves will also hold summer largemouths. Fish these structures with drop-shot rigs, football-head jigs, Carolina rigs and crankbaits. Summer Tip: Get some good foul weather gear and make sure to be on the water when a low-pressure system is approaching as long as there is no lightning.
As soon as it begins to rain, get to the best area of the lake—the big fish will start feeding soon after. As the water cools in the fall, bass move shallower to feed and pack on weight for the lean winter. Once the water drops to 55 degrees, the bite can turn on. Another bonus is that few anglers are still fishing at this time of year. Dress properly and you will have awesome days all to yourself. There are large fish still to be caught as well as large quantities.
The bass will stack up in prime areas and you can catch them one after another. Early in the fall, before the lake turns over, bass will move back into the same shallow areas where they were feeding before the spawn. A small- to medium-sized spinnerbait, like the War Eagle, and a square-billed crankbait will work wonders in the month of September. Points once again will be sure spots for fish as well as any cover adjacent to deeper water. Article: Deer Season Bass Strategies. I have three go-to lures for fall—a medium-diving crankbait, a lipless crankbait, and a jerkbait.
Topwaters, spoons and spinnerbaits can also be effective. As the lake turns over, fishing will be tough for a stretch. After turnover, when the lake has settled and cleared up again, bass will move to the steepest ledges leading to flats with the last remaining weeds on them.
Spawning season: March-April Temperature: F Spawning locations: Sauger will use sand and gravel bars directly downstream of locks and dams on the Ohio River during spawning.
They can also be found near in-stream structures such as rocks or woody debris that provide current breaks. Spawning season: April Temperature: F Spawning locations: Muskellunge spawn in areas with soft shallow bottoms, especially those with emerging weedbeds. Spawning season: April-May Temperature: F Spawning locations: During spawning season, fishermen will have the best luck in tributaries and riffle areas. Spawning season: April-June Temperature: F Spawning locations: Carp are prevalent in shallows during spawning season.
They can be found near shore over vegetation or just off the bottom. Spawning season: Mid-April-Mid-June Temperature: F Spawning locations: Largemouth bass can be found near secondary and main lake points, featuring a hard bottom with sand or gravel. Spawning season: Late April-May Temperature: 55 F Spawning locations: White bass can be found in tributary streams as they migrate upstream to spawn. After arrival to spawning grounds, they stick to areas with hard surfaces. Spawning season: May-June Temperature: F Spawning locations: Smallmouth bass spawn in areas with slow-moving water and gravel or hard bottoms, usually near some type of cover.
They will stay around the nest to protect while the females go eat. This process can take one or two days. Despite their preference for bushy places, crappies are easier to fish than many other species. Their aggressiveness, especially from the males, makes the bait choice pretty easy — anything from spinners to plastics and crankbaits will work. Tube jigs, small minnows, and live bait can also work terrifically. So, ready to start fishing according to spawn times?
Experts recommend using these tips to find the ideal catch in the selected months. If you go at it using this knowledge, fishing will become more fun and more comfortable with time. Your email address will not be published. Factors That Make Fish Spawn. When They Eat. Northern Pike. Largemouth Bass. Then the females go into the dens, the most covered the better for them and will start mating.
Smallmouth Bass. Bottom Line. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Footer Disclaimer OutDooris. Search the site After spawning, the return journey to the sea is undertaken, but very few male survive to breed a second time.
Females that are able to reach the sea, start feeding and soon recover their normal condition and silvery colour. Salmon does not usually spawn more than three times in its life span of eight or nine years. The king salmon Onchorchus also has a similar breeding habit. The sea-lamprey Petromyzon is also anadromous in habit and ascends the rivers for spawning, during spring or early summer months. Lampreys also undergo considerable changes in colour during breeding time, and the males and females show marked differences in appearance.
They reach clear, shallow, fast flowing streams, provided with sandy bottom and scattered stone pieces. A crude nest is prepared by clearing a circular or oval space, feet in diameter. The stones are moved and piled up at the lower end of the nests. Usually the male reach the suitable place earlier, and starts nest building. Each male is later assisted by a female. Some times a second female also joins the pair. They attached themselves to stones by their suctorial mouths, and drag them to the lower end of the nest.
Mating takes place under the ready nest. The females attaches her to a large stone near the upper end of the nest, the males seizes her by the top of the head and coils round her body. They vibrate the hinder part of their body vigorously; extradite the ova and sperms simultaneously. The eggs are coiled by a sticky substance and sand.
The male and female now separate and start removing the stones from above the nest, so that more sand is carried by the water to cover the eggs. The pair leaves the nest after all the eggs have been covered. By this time they are very much exhausted and fall an easy prey to the enemies and do not survive.
The common fresh water eel, Anguilla anguilla European eel also undertakes long journeys to reach the spawning grounds, but this migration is from rivers to the sea catadromous. Eels are are of two types. Yellow eels are found in both salt and fresh water and vary in length from a few inches to several feet. With the approach of autumn, a number of yellow eels become silvery and prepare the migration towards spawning grounds. The migratory male fish belongs to the age group 8 to 10 years, while the females are 10 to 18 years old.
At this stage they stop feeding, eyes become large, lips thinner, the pectoral fins more pointed and darker in colour. The colour of the body becomes silvery on the sides, with blackish back. These characters become more pronounced with the approach of breeding time. The reproductive organs develop and the alimentary canal becomes shrunken. The eels migrate down the rivers, reaching the sea in the late summer. It is believed that these eels cross the Atlantic Ocean, covering three to four thousand miles, and ultimately reach their spawning grounds in the Western Atlantic and south of Barmuda.
It is likely that both the spawners die after spawning. The eggs float for sometime and hatch at a depth of feet. The larvae are called the Leptocephali, and are flat, leaf-like, tiny creatures, provided with long, needle like teeth for feeding. To start long homeward journey they move in the easterly direction, grow rapidly during the first few months, and when they reach the coasts of Western Europe, they are about three inches long and two years old. At this stage they undergo metamorphosis, during which time they stop feeding, lost teeth, and the body assumes a cylindrical shape.
They are transparent and are called elvers or glass eel which acquires new teeth. The elvers, when become three years old, start ascending the rivers in huge numbers, and are able to cross all obstacles and finally on reaching their suitable resting place they feed and grow for some years and ultimately develop into yellow eels. Finally on attaining maturity, they finally change into silver eels, and start for their own breeding migration to the sea, which ends in death.
Another closely allied species is called the American eel, Anguilla rostrata , and is found in the rivers and along the coast of North America. The breeding area of both the species overlaps, and the larvae of both the species are found together. The larvae of the American eel migrate towards the rivers of North America. According to Schmidt, the larvae of the American eel grow more rapidly and become metamorphosed into elvers in one year, while the larvae of the European eel take three years to become elvers.
The distance to be covered by individual species is dependent on larval lifespan. The long larval life of the European eel is an adaptation for covering a great distance to approach breeding grounds which is located far away from the coasts. However, a British Zoologist, Dr Tucker, has put forward another hypothesis. He opined that the two species of eels are really one and the same.
The small morphological differences between the two are due to environmental factors. According to Dr Tucker, the European eels are not able to survive the presumed miles journey from Europe to the Sargasso Sea, and they do not return to the spawning grounds as also mature European eels have not been observed in the said area. The American eels are able to reach the spawning area as they cover shorter distance. Thus it appears that the European eels are also derived from the American eels.
The actual spawning area determines whether the larvae will be carried towards America or Europe, along with the currents. The temperature and other ecological factors determine the larval age. Extensive field and experimental studies needs to carried out before drawing conclusion. The development of an egg begins soon after it is fertilised by a sperm.
The egg of bony fishes has a relatively large amount of yolk, which remain segregated from the active superficial cytoplasm. Cleavage is confirmed to the superficial layer of the cytoplasm and is incomplete underside meroblastic.
In the earlier stages cleavage planes are all vertical so that all the blastomeres lie in one plane only. The blastomeres are separated from each other by furrows but lie over the yolk.
In the later stages, cleavages occur in the horizontal plane also, so that the blastomers become arranged in more than one row. The marginal cells are in contact with the yolk. The disc of cells thus formed on the animal pole of the egg, is called the blastoderm. The central cells of the blastoderm divide to form a number of "free" blastoderms which subsequently arranged on the top of the yolk so as to form a layer of cells called the periblast.
The space between the blastoderm and periblast is the blastocoel and the embryo now is in the blastula stage. The blastoderm gives rise to embryo proper while the cells of the periblast probably serve to digest the yolk, and supply it to the developing embryo. It is possible to identify various regions of the blastula wall that are destined to give rise to specific organs in the embryo. Thus a fate map of the teleostean blastula can be constructed showing the presumptive ectoderm, endoderm, mesoderm, notochord, neural plate etc.
In the fish blastula, the areas which are destined to give rise to the organs of the dorsal region of the animal, tends to be concentrated towards one side of the blastodisc. This indicates the posterior end of the future embryo. At this end and along the margin of the blastoderm, lies the presumptive endoderm which gives rise to gut. Anterior to this lies the presumptive notochord, and the centre of the blastoderm, holds the area of the nervous system.
The presumptive mesoderm lies along the sides of the areas destined for endoderm, notochord and neural plate. The mesodermal area extends mainly along the margin of the blastoderm and in Fundulus , is not continuous at the anterior end due to the presence of presumptive epidermis. But in Salmo the presumptive mesodermal area is present all round the margin of the blastoderm. Fish may lay eggs, ie be oviparous, or give birth to live young. Those species which give birth to live young can be further divided into the truly viviparous species, in which the developing embryos are supplied with nutrients by the mother, and ovoviviparous species, in which there is egg retention but no additional nutrient supply from the mother.
Within this broad framework of the three basic modes of reproduction- oviparity, ovoviviparity and viviparity- there are large interspecific differences with respect to both the numbers of offspring produced, and the degree of protection and care given to the developing eggs and young by the parents. Within the oviparous species, for example, the variations may range from the production of large numbers of freely floating pelagic eggs at one extreme to nest building and extensive parental care at the other.
For example, many marine species produce large numbers of small pelagic eggs, whereas stickleback species Gasterosteidae build nests and engage in elaborate courtship and parental behaviours. By studying the relationships between fecundity the number of eggs produced per female , egg size and degree of parental care it is possible to make some generalisations about reproductive patterns in fish Tables 9.
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