After dinner tonight I decided to walk around the pond here where I live and cast for crappie. I was using a red/chart. crappie jig with a white head. As I would walk around I would see huge swirls in the water right next to the shore. At first I figured it was the carp, but I noticed the fish were returning to the same spot after I would pass and walk by again a few minutes later. Still not knowing for sure what they were I figured it was something bedding. I stood a ways back and casted my jig up in the spot where I saw it and caught a 22 inch green carp, aka bass, the third one this year 22 inches or better not even trying to catch bass fishing for crappie. The second bedding area, the fish was more timid as each time I would run the jig through his area he would dash and make the huge muddy swirl but each time returned within seconds.
Is anybody else still seeing bass spawning? I know they spawned here in this pond well over a month ago. I know bluegill spawn over and over again, up into August, but I have never seen bass spawn this late before.