08-20-2025, 06:39 PM
As with most fishing...for most species...on most waters...it is a food chain thing.
The small white bass come into protected shallows (like harbors) to feed on emerging midges and other bitty bites. But if oxygen levels get too low...or water chemistry gets out of whack...the midges either die off or just stay in the mud. And the whitettes don't like bad living conditions neither. All that can change pretty fast...like overnight.
I always like to score some bait at the ramp before heading out. But if there is none to be had I make some casts into shallower water on the outside...where winds keep the water better oxygenated.
Ya cain't ketch 'em where they ain't.
The small white bass come into protected shallows (like harbors) to feed on emerging midges and other bitty bites. But if oxygen levels get too low...or water chemistry gets out of whack...the midges either die off or just stay in the mud. And the whitettes don't like bad living conditions neither. All that can change pretty fast...like overnight.
I always like to score some bait at the ramp before heading out. But if there is none to be had I make some casts into shallower water on the outside...where winds keep the water better oxygenated.
Ya cain't ketch 'em where they ain't.