No creature is wiser, wittier, and more deceptive than a trophy largemouth bass is. Once summer peak settles in, which for me is by mid-July, my bass fishing desires and motivation revolve greatly around the whereabouts of big largemouths. Everything about their lifestyle drives me crazy. From the challenges of finding fisheries, to locating and patterning them, and figuring out what triggers them, there’s been many very long days and nights of trial and error. I don’t know how you feel about it, but the pursuit of mega largemouths is far more advanced and challenging than pursuing smallmouths of similar caliber. Depending on your waters and trophy fish findings, patterns could be habitual or constant from year-to-year. They may also revolve around good weather, peak feeding, or biological factors. Additionally, patterns could even be specifically lake-dependent. The variety of largemouth patterns I attempt to follow each summer are predictable, often repeating themselves annually when everything aligns perfectly together. Additionally, patterns are prone to change on the fly from forces beyond our control, requiring me to adapt quickly as these expertly