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“I think about half of them are still on the bed, and another group are lethargic. It’s going to be all about timing, being in the right place at the right time,” Fritts said.
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“The bass are biting on anything you want to throw at them. You can catch them shallow, there are herring and shad spawns going on. It’s a really good time to be fishing here.”
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“A lot of the herring bite is going away. The bass still are there; I just think the bass are getting into that textbook postspawn funk where they are going toward a lethargic stage.”
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“I don’t know what to expect because the bites have been totally random. The bass are doing a lot of different things, and success will come down to timing on being where they are biting, feeding on the herring.”
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“Taku like Lake Murray. I can fish deep and that is my specialty.”
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“When you have a very large population of bass active in all phases of the spawning cycle, then it makes it difficult to decide which way to catch them. They get spread out without the herring spawn.”
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“Obviously, the herring bite is key. It’s best in the morning, but you can catch them throughout the day.”
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“If it were a smaller lake then I’d have a real crisp, accurate summary of what to expect, but because it’s such a big body of water, you can’t cover everything given the time we have in practice.”
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