Herrington Bass

[nate4023]

As of yesterday I am officially on summer break and will probably be doing quite a bit of fishing on Herrington Lake because our boat is docked there. I know Herrington is a tough lake to bass fish but I am determined to figure it out to some extent. I have very little experience bass fishing other than in farm ponds so I'm pretty much a beginner. Earlier this year we caught bass using shad raps back in the creek, and then after doing some research I decided to throw a shakey head with a Zoom finesse worm. That has been working okay but not with great results lately. I have been doing a lot of reading on different types of techniques and I was just wondering if you all might have any suggestions to try or advice? I could use as much of it as I can get.

Thanks in advance,
Nate

[crappiepappy]

Fish at night ... dark til ~2AM ... boat sitting in 15' of water & parallel cast with deep diving cranks (I like Luhr Jensen Hot Lips & Wiggle Warts) on open banks (no docks). On banks with docks ... texas rigged worms/craws down to ~20ft. Jus' sayin' .... !!

... pappy

[nate4023]

So far I have had my best luck in the evening and right before dark, which seems odd since everyone says to fish after dark. After dark are you suppose to change the method of fishing? Slow Down a bunch? Went yesterday, I had bought a watermelon jig and put a craw trailer on and had pretty good luck until after dark and it went dead. I switched over to a darker lure (June bug trick worm on a shakey head) and caught one but it was a lot slower than it had been.
Thanks for the reply,
Nate

[rwalker793]

I just moved to Nicholasville and I plan to night fish Herrington quite a bit in the coming months. Thanks for the advice pappy! Please keep the knowledge coming. Also what other, possibly more fruitful, alternatives are there to Herrington for good bass fishing in the this area??

robbie

[sglass]

Midlake to the river is where ive had my best luck. Sweet beaver around docks at night and a big 10 inch worm or a black jig with a baby paca or zoom swim chunk trailer around chunck rock banks and wood. Find the wood, find the bass most of the time just depends on if they are 30 foot deep or 3 foot deep. They are moody down there.

Shawn

[rwalker793]

Thanks Shawn!

[nate4023]

Yeah thanks! I went out from about 9:00am until 5:30pm the other day (yes I know not the best time) and threw a deep diving crank and did better than I even had. Also caught a pretty nice 3 and a half pounder. Caught most of them off points and also off the deep ledges where you can be right up against the rock and be 30-40 feet down. I started out using a craw colored crank but switched over to "Baby Bass" and off the first cast caught the 3 and a half pounder, so I stuck with that. Still haven't gotten to do any night fishing really, hoping to in the near future. If you all like I can continue to report in on how things are going. I usually will try different things every time out.

Thanks again for the advice,
Nate