Issue 215 February 2012 - Wvasportsman.net

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Gerald Swindle - Winter Bass
During most of the year, a simple
rule influences bass fishing: Find
the bait, and you’ll find the fish.
Winter throws a knot in that line
by making it much tougher to locate
the chow. Without a definitive
game plan, cold days can turn into
a whole lot of looking with not a
whole lot of fishing.
“It gets a lot harder to follow the
bait in the wintertime,” says Alabama
pro Gerald Swindle. “This
is the hardest time of year to follow
the schools.” Granted, baitfish
numbers expand greatly once
warm weather returns, but there’s
still plenty of finned forage to be
found in the year’s first quarter.
For Swindle, it’s all about dialing
in the spots where baitfish will feel
most comfortable. In reservoirs,
his prime winter targets are the bottoms
of creek channels. Anywhere
he finds a creek dumping into the
main channel, Swindle expects
to find bait gathered at the lowest
point of that drop.
On warm days, baitfish may move
up to the shallow channel edges,
but the rest of the time, they’re
hanging low. Oneae jigging spoon
(silver for sunny days, white for
cloudy) fished on 12-pound Vicious
fluorocarbon. More often, though,
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Mr. Robinson bagged a large buck.
Photo courtesy of Middle Mountain Sporting
Goods in Elkins.