#Uss marlin spike cole series#

Fort Gibson was a good example for him recently. The presence of structural elements like secondary points, channel swings, ditches running through major flats, even road beds or humps toward the backs of the creeks can be good.

“Now I’ve found that most of the time I’m really finding and targeting those shad chasing bass in the back third of most major creeks.” “I used to fish all the creeks from the mouth to the back,” he said. He’s found more success going up into the bays than starting way out in the mouth. Niggemeyer starts seeking out bass about halfway back into the major creeks, especially ones that have feeder creeks coming out of the backs of them. In fact I’m always surprised just how shallow a bass will get and react to a lipless bait.” It’s effective out on creek channels and in inches of water in the backs of bays. You can move fast, target schooling fish and follow them around as they migrate to the backs of the creeks in fall and then back out again going into winter. “It’s so effective at just covering water. “I’ve caught bass fishing lipless baits from the end of the summer all the way up to prespawn the next year,” he said. Niggemeyer has had great success in late summer when the water temperatures are still hot and he’s had equally good or even better success when the water temps are dipping into their winter time climes. The first thing he notes is that bait drive bass, not water temperatures.

I just grab a few rods with spinnerbaits, square bills, lipless baits and topwaters and run and gun.” “It’s such a good relief after you’ve been out there fishing deep, throwing marker buoys and fishing ledges to come shallow and just pick a rod and burn it up. “I just love the change of pace that comes when you can pick up a lipless bait in the late summer and fall when the bass are moving with the bait and just cover water,” Niggemeyer said. He loves fall fishing for one reason â he can just pick up a bait like a Red Eye Shad and go!

#Uss marlin spike cole series#

James Niggemeyer travels the country fishing Elite Series events but has also spent most falls chasing bass on Texas fisheries like Lake Fork, Sam Rayburn and Cedar Creek. The grouping of the forage in late summer is like a magnet drawing bass out of their deep summer haunts and into the creeks. Fall brings a binge impulse for the bass, largely because forage has spent the spring and summer spawning and growing and they gang up in massive schools. Okay that might be a stretch, but one thing is for sure, when a bass has feeding on the brain he gets predictable and patternable. The quickest way to a bass’s heart is through his mouth.