Transition To Winter

Moving to the Winter

The one thing you can count on in the winter is the water temperature being the driving force behind the location of the bass during the cold months. As we see the water temperatures start to drop below 60’s we will see movement of the bass toward their winter locations. As in any lake the bass will locate near the deepest parts of the lake. That does not mean that the bass will travel miles to find deep water in fact quite the opposite. Bass are not a species that will migrate several miles to find deep water; in fact, they most of the time will not leave the longer wider creeks, they will just find the locations of deeper water within the creek they exist in.

One of the reasons certain areas of the lake become easier to find big fish as we approach winter over others is bass are not big travelers. The long-elongated creeks the bass will not migrate far enough to leave the creek area, so they find deep water within the creek, and this might be just ten feet of water. To these fish channel areas, may just be deep banks or original creek paths along the edges of the creek that form points or old farm ponds where you have a depth change. As we get into winter, food is not the only driving factor of where bass locate themselves, as a bass consumes far less food in the chilly water than they do when the water temperature are warmer.