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Real question and hoping for some experienced wisdom from you guys. We fished Lake Miramar last week and couldn’t find any bass or bait with our eyes or electronics. We fished slow with plastics and faster with flukes, jerks, chatterbaits from 0’ to 35’ and seemingly “accidentally” caught one 6” bass on a senko. Water was 71-73. Beautiful day. We’ve fished there many many time and even the safety “if you had to feed your family bass” spots were empty. Wouldn’t even touch a margarita mutilator dropshot! If you know Miramar…that’s bass candy.

Similar experiences at Perris and San V the 2 weeks prior. 3 dinks at each outing.

Are they super deep? Not hungry?

Grateful for your insights and will happily enjoy the critics also…our wives are happy to tell us we must not be very good at fishing!

Bass school up in the Fall. Sometimes all the Bass in an area will be in a group measuring 10 x 10 feet. With the cooling water, they dont want to move far. You pretty well have to hit them on the nose. You have to surgically search them out. My last trip had 20 minutes of fine fishing in 6 hours. I caught 9 in 20 minutes and 4 more in the next 5 hours. So i found a nice school of not particularly big Bass on two points leading into a cove. They were in 2-8 feet of water. The others were deep into outside Sunken Trees. If your cast didn't hit the stumps before falling, no bite. I was throwing Tiki Worms at those trees and they sometimes sat for 20 seconds before getting picked up. Thats about as dead stick as i can fish. Still six hours on the water went fairly quickly, as there were lots of Targets to fish. So, you have to put that Bait in front if their noses and slow way down sometimes to get bit. I also slowed up on the hooksets because it seemed like they were not as aggressive as my previous trips, every Bass i caught was in the lip, even with the smelly Tiki Worms flavored with Malopo, from Lake Fork Texas.

San v- 35 ft. On every point. Purple or brown craw trig or roboworm dropshot. When I say 35 ft- I mean 35 feet exactly. Position your boat close to shore and drag your bait up the point. I have active target and even if I didn’t see anything on the bottom-if cast at 35 ft and they would come flying up. Damn near every single point.

I’ve only launched at Miramar once, that was a couple months ago. I did okay but that pattern is long gone I’m sure. There’s some big fish in there.