Top Lures and Tactics for Early Summer Largemouths
June is an action-packed month, wherever you’ll fish largemouth bass at. It’s a month for numbers and trophies. A lot is going on between location, conditions, habitat, and biologically everywhere you’ll go.
Bass activity this month is water temperature driven. As the daytime temperatures finally warm to summer-like conditions, water temperatures climb throughout the 60’s and may hit the 70’s. This increase drives spawning activity and duration, and the feeding habits that follow afterwards.
These next few weeks submergent and emergent weed growth will be sprouting throughout the lake’s littoral zone. The new habitat attracts fish of all species, increasing their abundance and putting them in vulnerable situations. New weed growth importantly provides largemouths with spawning cover and the ambush points they’ll be using shortly afterwards for feeding.
All fishing patterns and strategies, and most on-the-water decisions should be centered on the timing and phase of spawn. The spawn and post-spawn encapsulate June month. The timing of it will depend on water temperature and conditions. In warm fronts and calm hot weather conditions spawn complete