>>1375383That's the thing that confuses me. I'm not saying you're wrong; I only started fishing this spring, so I definitely don't know a whole lot.
All summer, I read that bass seek shelter, and avoid shallow water because of the heat. That's understandable. The only exception I found was the explanation that bass will actively hunt shallow waters, working in schools sometimes to basically herd baitfish.
I've found explanations that in the fall, they start going to shallow waters because the sun isn't so intense, and will swim shallower because of this. It's explained that this is why topwater excels in the fall when it starts cooling off (it barely has here, but it has begun).
Everything I've found online says they go deep in the winter, because of the cold.
This creek might -- I haven't explored more than a couple miles of it -- have deeper pools and portions, but the ones I've fished don't seem to have any bass. They're too deep to see the bottom (arse deep is as deep as I have attempted wading, and two of the four pools I know of in this mile or so are deeper), but at the very least nothing is biting in any of them except sunfish -- so I just fish for those to kill time.
But most of what I have seen in the couple miles I have waded this creek, most of it is ankle to knee-deep.
Is it feasible to say the bass have gone the fifty or so miles down-stream to the river, and will come back up-stream around spring?
