Help me out yall. Just picked up bass fishing and can’t get anything. I’ve gone multiple days for multiple hours in multiple sloughs at my park. I live in Oregon and the water temps are around 45 Degrees right now. I’ve been using all kinds of baits and making sure I’m on the move when I don’t get bites (which is all the time lol). I fish from the bank but will take a kayak out once the weather is nicer.
I’ll show some picture of where I fish so you can let me know if you think bass would even be there.
There are also some bigger sloughs that are more like small lakes as well that I didn’t take a picture of
But over all just curious if I’m doing something way wrong or are my expectations of winter bass fishing too high.
Posted by Competitive_Major638
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Rooster tail is my go to all year round.
Maybe because its to cold
The water is too cold, friend. Bass haven’t been biting around here for a couple of months. It’s steelhead season right now. Bass will be biting again in April or May.
Winter is the hardest time of year for fishing, and ponds at public parks are also some of the toughest places to get bites because of how much they get fished.
If you want to keep pushing during this season, I’d recommend slowing way down. Look up Texas and Carolina rigs. Use small baits, like 2-3” craw or hog style baits and thin 4-4.5” finesse worms. Green pumpkin is a good color to default to. Fish it really slow, like 10-20 second pauses.