Matt and Tim have the rare gift of being great teachers and highly skilled anglers. It is NOT easy to roll through 20-plus minutes of content with almost nothing in the way of fumbles, stumbles or bumbles...typically with no edits. Impressive stuff.
I got it, got out for only 10 minutes fishing, and caught 1 bass and missed 2 going shallow, you have made me very happy when I go fishing, because I can actually catch fish. You have helped me greatly, I don't know how to show my thanks, but I subscribed and liked, I want people to see your videos too. But you have made me enjoy fishing and to me that is the best thing that I wanted to learn.
T.B. is my #1 go-to channel for the best content. Matt, please discuss the effects of the thermocline on the topic of Summer bass fishing. I find it to be a bit confusing when I hear "...fish deep water in the summer..." when every southern lake has a +/- 12ft thermocline. Tactical Bassers need to know the facts. You spit the facts better than anyone! Thx TB!
Only a few people would share where to find bass and not just any bass, but the giants (it Ike's voice lol). I am forever grateful and can't thank you enough!
Matt, you always give me encouragement to try to get back out there again. Boat has been sitting too much since I've had health problems for the last few years. I don't get out much. So thanks for the excellent content of your videos!!! Keeps my head in the game even though I'm not on the water on a regular basis.
Thank you!!! Defining the terms you guys know is super helpful. I got skunked in a tourney, and tactical bassin was my first stop. Great video! Saving this one
This my fourth or fifth seminar that I have views with TB. Each year I pick up a point or two that I missed in previous presentations. Thank you for this comprehensive seminar. Thank you for your interest in our community.
Very good info here! First time I ever heard the color line explained like that - super interesting! Can't wait to get out next time and put it to use.
Thanks, Matt. I thought you did a fantastic job of speaking to an enormous variety of anglers. No matter where their home waters may be, I think just about every bass angler out there could glean something from this breakdown. Thank you again and have a great weekend!
Awesome information Matt! Would love if you could do a deep dive video into the color line subject. Super interesting and something that doesn't get talked about. Keep up the great videos!
Thank you so much Mat! As always you are a great wealth to the fishing community and I appreciated all you do. I am going to have to break down a HL res in ga this Sep. I was looking for previous videos for fall transition and did not see a category. May I suggest that these incredible videos all be placed into a separate cat on youtube so people can find them easy. Transition videos have been so helpful and a great resources to get much bigger perspective on fishing year round! Thank you.
Thank you, Matt. Fishing lakes here in N Central Fla with the heat we have now (High 90's). The Bass goes deep here (Like Sellers Lake). Just pulled up a nautical map to check the deep parts of the lake. Of course, I will need a longer rope for my anchor for the kayak.
The back side of that lack farthest from 19 is the deepest..not the small lake but the big one in the back..On the small lake the dock with the fish feeder on it holds big bass as they are sneak attacking the bream ...That lake is 20ft on the back side...See ya out there!
Thank you for posting this. I’m a novice but have become addicted in just the last year or so. I’m gonna try these adjustments this weekend in Lake Wedowee and will let you know how it went. Thanks again.
Up here in central Minnesota we had an insane amount of rainfall this spring and caused a lot of the fish in the lakes to spawn early and a lot of the fish in the rivers to spawn late. Last year we had a really bad drought so I'm almost having to relearn how these fish behave with proper water levels. I really appreciate your wealth of knowledge you and Tim put into these videos and into the bass fishing community. Keep it up gentleman!
I straight up smashed on em today with a buzzbait and popper. Then after the sun came up i caught them on a fluke and wacky rig. Great video as always brother 👍 👌
Thank you for laying this out in lamen kinda, keep it up for us not so avid fishermen, but want to understand fishing and bass behavior,you nailed it to help me and others I'm sure to understand it a bit better, thank you so much. I greatly appreciate it.
In Texas ponds we usually have flat mud bottoms so in my experience the bass move to the creeks. Even if the water is stagnant or just barely trickling the water is usually a lot cooler. Now in ponds that aren’t creek fed idk where the hell they go. I guess they can’t go anywhere.
I was fishing in a northern shield lake once when i was little. Its your usual smallmouth amd walleyes on rock humps amd samdgrass. Foundaybe 20 lilypads at the back of a bay. 1 cast with a spinnerbait, only largemouth of the trip.
I love your videos they're so informative. I live in Washington state and struggle to catch much outside of the month of August. I've heard you speak of the color line before but just remembered it as a side note. Next time I get out on the water I'll focus more on the color line. Thanks for the tip! Keep bending rods and educating the clueless.
Thank you so much this was just what I’ve been looking for! I just refreshed my memory on all your other videos on summer fishing! Right in time as always thank you
On point. Going into my first tournament tomorrow morning and have found this method has been working when fishing my target lake. Not a lot of structure. I have been fishing that 15-25 foot range on ledges, humps, and deeper points. I hit laydowns along the way, but for the most part, it's all down around brush piles and other structure. Everything in here I am going to use or planned to already. Thanks.
Fished a small lake yesterday, with some shallow weeds but got bit and also a tire was randomly sitting in the shallows so I figured they'd be in there
My lake is very small and has a lot of rock cover. The shallow areas go from. 1ft to 10 ft or more. The drop offs are most immediate. I'm guessing that's where they'll be
We have a highland lake. It has a lot of steep drop offs. I mean straight drop offs, 50 feet or more. Are there fish there? Where? There are plenty of Walleye and small mouth.
Love your videos! Wife and I (retired) in MN have been bass fishing in MN for 8 years. First 2 years started for pan fish and caught a few bass, so we switched to bass fishing and have been very successful using topwater, chatterbaits etc, however, the past few weeks we have had high surface water temperatures of 78-79 degrees and it's been hard to find them. Heavy weed lines end, drop-off at 8-10'. Fish don't seem interested with worms and creature baits in and outside of the Heavy weeds lines. We have all the basic "tools", 1988 bass tracker Guide V special, minnkota PD55, Garmin 73v, (upgrade of electronics would cost 3x the cost of the boat), along with 12 baitcasters,just need some info. Wife on the bow and catches 85% of the fish. 120 Monkey Butt is her goto lure but hard to catch at these higher water temps. Any suggestions what we can do with the unusally higher water temps? Thanks, Mike & Sue
Thanks for the video Matt. In all of my years of fishing I have never heard of the color line. Would it be safe to say when you find that color line that you could remember that depth and stay on that contour line?
This is an awesome breakdown. Is there anywhere I can get a "101 course" of sorts that takes information like this and feeds it to you at the right pace and in the right order, to give you a better overall understanding of the material? Is there a course like that out there for bass fishing?
Does anybody have any suggestions on a city park that is super thought to fish but a city park and there is a bunch I mean a bunch of mossy grassy stuff and I see some trout hang out in there but I don’t see bass along the bank but its super grassy and pretty darn clear water
matt i know your no longer in California but i fish the delta and right now all Iam catching is dinks but last year i caught several 5 pounders and 1, 8 pounder what am i doing wrong they just don't seem to be anywhere like last year help
I would say so. Without knowing any specifics, I would concentrate on the thickest clusters of limbs, or for those limbs that lie, for instance, in a patch of weeds or rocks. Can be tricky (and expensive) fishing, but as Matt mentions in the video, the largest fish are often hiding in the thickest cover.
I'm guessing that a Gravel Pit is a reservoir? These body of waters can I have anywhere from 10 to 20 ft of visibility. there's one I fish that's in the shape of a banana and the deepest spot is 78ft deep which is more distance then it is from one side to the other. crazy
I almost never throw a frog in the morning. I wait until mid-day and go shallow; to flats, docks, etc. Then I whip out the 🐸 frog. Yes, big fish do stay shallow in the summer still
113 feels like temperature in Alabama, it's too hot. I'll be out after dark. Plus all our lakes turn into pontoon, ski, and wake boat central and those guys don't give 2 caps about fishermen. They will cross between your boat and the bank and smile and wave while doing it.
@Forrest Farris they get that and a verbal warning, they don't care. Most times it makes them do it more. Had a wake boat do it 4 times on Logan Martin Saturday evening, finally had to tie an old busted 6xd on and bounce it off the Bimini, that got them on the way after a heated discussion
i was on a long trip now its time to catch up on a crap ton of tb vids
The color line concept in last years video afforded me by far the most productive and enjoyable summer. Ever.
Probably one of the most informative videos I've seen in a while. Great Job, Matt!
Agreed, truly was a great video!
Matt and Tim have the rare gift of being great teachers and highly skilled anglers. It is NOT easy to roll through 20-plus minutes of content with almost nothing in the way of fumbles, stumbles or bumbles...typically with no edits. Impressive stuff.
I got it, got out for only 10 minutes fishing, and caught 1 bass and missed 2 going shallow, you have made me very happy when I go fishing, because I can actually catch fish. You have helped me greatly, I don't know how to show my thanks, but I subscribed and liked, I want people to see your videos too. But you have made me enjoy fishing and to me that is the best thing that I wanted to learn.
Easily the most informative and useful fishing TH-camr no cap
T.B. is my #1 go-to channel for the best content. Matt, please discuss the effects of the thermocline on the topic of Summer bass fishing. I find it to be a bit confusing when I hear "...fish deep water in the summer..." when every southern lake has a +/- 12ft thermocline. Tactical Bassers need to know the facts. You spit the facts better than anyone! Thx TB!
Ready for this one, Lets go!
Only a few people would share where to find bass and not just any bass, but the giants (it Ike's voice lol). I am forever grateful and can't thank you enough!
Super helpful, thank you! Caught my PB today throwing a crank on the color line! 🤟🏼
Congratulations!
Matt, you always give me encouragement to try to get back out there again. Boat has been sitting too much since I've had health problems for the last few years. I don't get out much. So thanks for the excellent content of your videos!!!
Keeps my head in the game even though I'm not on the water on a regular basis.
Thank you!!! Defining the terms you guys know is super helpful. I got skunked in a tourney, and tactical bassin was my first stop. Great video! Saving this one
This my fourth or fifth seminar that I have views with TB. Each year I pick up a point or two that I missed in previous presentations.
Thank you for this comprehensive seminar.
Thank you for your interest in our community.
I found the bass on the deep weed edges on my local lake we caught smallmouth and large mouth and walleye all along the deep weed edges👍🐟🐟🐟🐟
Great job on providing information for me being a somewhat novice angler
Very good info here! First time I ever heard the color line explained like that - super interesting! Can't wait to get out next time and put it to use.
Thanks, Matt. I thought you did a fantastic job of speaking to an enormous variety of anglers. No matter where their home waters may be, I think just about every bass angler out there could glean something from this breakdown. Thank you again and have a great weekend!
This is why I love river smallmouth they just hit different
Awesome information Matt! Would love if you could do a deep dive video into the color line subject. Super interesting and something that doesn't get talked about. Keep up the great videos!
Thank you so much Mat! As always you are a great wealth to the fishing community and I appreciated all you do. I am going to have to break down a HL res in ga this Sep. I was looking for previous videos for fall transition and did not see a category. May I suggest that these incredible videos all be placed into a separate cat on youtube so people can find them easy. Transition videos have been so helpful and a great resources to get much bigger perspective on fishing year round! Thank you.
Thank you, Matt. Fishing lakes here in N Central Fla with the heat we have now (High 90's). The Bass goes deep here (Like Sellers Lake). Just pulled up a nautical map to check the deep parts of the lake. Of course, I will need a longer rope for my anchor for the kayak.
The back side of that lack farthest from 19 is the deepest..not the small lake but the big one in the back..On the small lake the dock with the fish feeder on it holds big bass as they are sneak attacking the bream ...That lake is 20ft on the back side...See ya out there!
Thank you for posting this. I’m a novice but have become addicted in just the last year or so. I’m gonna try these adjustments this weekend in Lake Wedowee and will let you know how it went. Thanks again.
In an industry full of secrets and deception deception you guys have helped me and all of us really become better fishermen so thank you.
Great work on this one!
Up here in central Minnesota we had an insane amount of rainfall this spring and caused a lot of the fish in the lakes to spawn early and a lot of the fish in the rivers to spawn late. Last year we had a really bad drought so I'm almost having to relearn how these fish behave with proper water levels. I really appreciate your wealth of knowledge you and Tim put into these videos and into the bass fishing community. Keep it up gentleman!
Fantastic information as usual! Thank you!
Very very useful and critical information. Thank you!!!!
I straight up smashed on em today with a buzzbait and popper. Then after the sun came up i caught them on a fluke and wacky rig. Great video as always brother 👍 👌
Love the vids man thanks!
Amazing! Just so much information packed into 19 mins! I love it.
Awesome video. Talking about structure and patterns is always helpful
By far the best channel for bassin on you tube!
It's definitely in the conversation.
Excellent. I live in Thailand and hope to adapt some of the ideas for Giant Snakehead!
Thank you for laying this out in lamen kinda, keep it up for us not so avid fishermen, but want to understand fishing and bass behavior,you nailed it to help me and others I'm sure to understand it a bit better, thank you so much. I greatly appreciate it.
Took your advice on junebug for big ones yesterday and caught an 8.4# in a deep dock brushpile on a junebug Ole Monster! Thanks!
As usual.....phenomenal video.
Man I wish Matt and Tim would do a “where do smallmouth go in the summer” video
In Texas ponds we usually have flat mud bottoms so in my experience the bass move to the creeks. Even if the water is stagnant or just barely trickling the water is usually a lot cooler. Now in ponds that aren’t creek fed idk where the hell they go. I guess they can’t go anywhere.
That color line info is really good. I had not considered it in the past. Excited to get out there and give it a shot.
Matt don't play. Always informative and spot on!
I was fishing in a northern shield lake once when i was little. Its your usual smallmouth amd walleyes on rock humps amd samdgrass. Foundaybe 20 lilypads at the back of a bay. 1 cast with a spinnerbait, only largemouth of the trip.
Great tips love the channel
This is such a valuable video! Thank you Matt!
Great video and great information. It's kind of like the biggest buck in the area always has the best patch of woods as his core area.
You are god sent! Thanks so much for the tips 😀
I love your videos they're so informative. I live in Washington state and struggle to catch much outside of the month of August. I've heard you speak of the color line before but just remembered it as a side note. Next time I get out on the water I'll focus more on the color line. Thanks for the tip! Keep bending rods and educating the clueless.
August is your favorite month in WA state? I live there too, that month can be brutal lol
@@MJ_Bass eastern Washington lakes. The night bite is the best!
Waking up with some TB nice 👍
Thank you so much this was just what I’ve been looking for! I just refreshed my memory on all your other videos on summer fishing! Right in time as always thank you
On point. Going into my first tournament tomorrow morning and have found this method has been working when fishing my target lake. Not a lot of structure. I have been fishing that 15-25 foot range on ledges, humps, and deeper points. I hit laydowns along the way, but for the most part, it's all down around brush piles and other structure. Everything in here I am going to use or planned to already. Thanks.
What an incredible video!
The 5 year old trashcan as cover comment was spot on!!
Great info !!! Thanks 👍
You guys are taking about summer fishing, we're still in the prespawn in the pnw
That color line got me. I’m just a normal fisherman ☠️ lol good tips!
Fished a small lake yesterday, with some shallow weeds but got bit and also a tire was randomly sitting in the shallows so I figured they'd be in there
Thank you Matt❤️
Great content
I noticed this at my local pond I fished the transiton lines from light to dark and caught a 4 pounder off of it
It would be great if you guys could make a how to on fishing marinas
Colorline!!! Can't emphasize it enough!!!
I've been experimenting with weird setups and having surprisingly good results. I think I'm learning that technique trumps tackle.
Or, as I am prone to say; "It's the archer, not the arrow."
My lake is very small and has a lot of rock cover. The shallow areas go from. 1ft to 10 ft or more. The drop offs are most immediate. I'm guessing that's where they'll be
Wobblehead baby! That'll smoke em
Good stuff!
Great info. Ready to position my kayak on the color line. Should I be searching for cover like docks early in the morning?
Thaaaank youuu
We have a highland lake. It has a lot of steep drop offs. I mean straight drop offs, 50 feet or more. Are there fish there? Where? There are plenty of Walleye and small mouth.
Under trees, near bushes, by steep bluff walls and long tapering points...dont forget creeks. 👍
Love your videos! Wife and I (retired) in MN have been bass fishing in MN for 8 years. First 2 years started for pan fish and caught a few bass, so we switched to bass fishing and have been very successful using topwater, chatterbaits etc, however, the past few weeks we have had high surface water temperatures of 78-79 degrees and it's been hard to find them. Heavy weed lines end, drop-off at 8-10'. Fish don't seem interested with worms and creature baits in and outside of the Heavy weeds lines. We have all the basic "tools", 1988 bass tracker Guide V special, minnkota PD55, Garmin 73v, (upgrade of electronics would cost 3x the cost of the boat), along with 12 baitcasters,just need some info. Wife on the bow and catches 85% of the fish. 120 Monkey Butt is her goto lure but hard to catch at these higher water temps. Any suggestions what we can do with the unusally higher water temps? Thanks, Mike & Sue
Thanks Matt! Do you have any priorities that differentiate one area of color line from another in larger natural lakes?
Favorite summer pattern is throwing a big 10 to 14 inch worm out deep
Thanks for the video Matt. In all of my years of fishing I have never heard of the color line. Would it be safe to say when you find that color line that you could remember that depth and stay on that contour line?
Can you have a color line on a lowland res, where relatively clear water exists like I Kansas. Parallel to a dam ?
It depends on how deep the water is. If the water is deep enough that no significant light penetrates, it has a color line.
So I should fish a man-made lake with sheer limestone banks like a highland reservoir?
So CAMP far West would be what kind of reservoir?
Could you throw a senko on straight flourocarbon or do you have to have a leader?
Fluorocarbon is commonly used as a leader.
Please come fish with me bout 2hrs north of you on Norris lake it’s a highland reservoir. I want to learn how to find and catch fish out deep!!!!
I got question do you bass fish in rivers and can u make a video where does bass goes in rivers 🤔 and what to use
This is an awesome breakdown. Is there anywhere I can get a "101 course" of sorts that takes information like this and feeds it to you at the right pace and in the right order, to give you a better overall understanding of the material? Is there a course like that out there for bass fishing?
Does anybody have any suggestions on a city park that is super thought to fish but a city park and there is a bunch I mean a bunch of mossy grassy stuff and I see some trout hang out in there but I don’t see bass along the bank but its super grassy and pretty darn clear water
matt i know your no longer in California but i fish the delta and right now all Iam catching is dinks but last year i caught several 5 pounders and 1, 8 pounder what am i doing wrong they just don't seem to be anywhere like last year help
My lake is a clear up to over 100 ft in some areas there are many tree limbs in the water would that be considered cover ?
I would say so. Without knowing any specifics, I would concentrate on the thickest clusters of limbs, or for those limbs that lie, for instance, in a patch of weeds or rocks. Can be tricky (and expensive) fishing, but as Matt mentions in the video, the largest fish are often hiding in the thickest cover.
What about rock quarry’s? How would u fish these ?
Is Hartwell considered highland?
Good job bro
I'm guessing that a Gravel Pit is a reservoir? These body of waters can I have anywhere from 10 to 20 ft of visibility. there's one I fish that's in the shape of a banana and the deepest spot is 78ft deep which is more distance then it is from one side to the other. crazy
#tacticalbassin, would they do the same in a spillway coming off of a resivor? I have a nice sized spillway that has fast moving water. Suggestions?
So it’s okeechobee pond ?
You drop some weight lately Matt? Looking good buddy 💪
I almost never throw a frog in the morning. I wait until mid-day and go shallow; to flats, docks, etc. Then I whip out the 🐸 frog. Yes, big fish do stay shallow in the summer still
Matt, Do you not trim the skirt on your frog? I've noticed that in several of the videos. I wasn't sure if it was a "new frog" for display purposes.
What kind of lake is CAMP FAR WEST.?
In river system its the same?
No
When are yall doing more night time stuff?
What do you mean by the color line ?
Did you listen to the video?
@@ricksonora6656 thanks for answering my question
Can you recommend a very good fish finder for kayaks
Couldnt go wrong with a Garmin 73sv
Cast and hope
They did an electronics buyers guide a few months ago : th-cam.com/video/sKa_eilJKyk/w-d-xo.html . Maybe that will help.
OK how do I find bass since I don't have any electronic equipment? ???
113 feels like temperature in Alabama, it's too hot. I'll be out after dark. Plus all our lakes turn into pontoon, ski, and wake boat central and those guys don't give 2 caps about fishermen. They will cross between your boat and the bank and smile and wave while doing it.
@Forrest Farris they get that and a verbal warning, they don't care. Most times it makes them do it more. Had a wake boat do it 4 times on Logan Martin Saturday evening, finally had to tie an old busted 6xd on and bounce it off the Bimini, that got them on the way after a heated discussion
@@Mjones8383 Good aim! But seriously, don’t get yourself charged with assault.
Being stuck on the bank, I don’t find bass boaters to be much better.
Anyone else tracking the year of the video by the length of Matt's beard?
Tell Um bout the gun line boss.
You clearly know more than me wayyyyyy more but man when its 95 plus sometimes they just completely shut off nothing you can do
What about man made lakes when power plants shut down?