Early Bass Spawn EXPOSED & What I Learned Bed Fishing Offshore

Do All Bass Spawn in the Shallow?
Bassmaster Elite Pro Dakota Ebare challenges traditional beliefs about bass spawning, suggesting that a significant percentage of bass, particularly larger ones, spawn in main lake areas such as points, flats, and ridges, rather than solely in traditional bank or creek locations.

Why Would a Bass Spawn Offshore or in Deeper Water?
Ebare proposes that warmer bottom water temperatures in reservoirs like Lake Sam Rayburn in Texas during mild winters can facilitate earlier spawning in these deeper main lake structures. He discusses how these main lake spawning areas, including offshore humps and flats with features like stumps (as seen in the Black Forest of Sam Rayburn), are often overlooked.

How Many Bass Spawn Offshore?
Dakota believes that up to 75% of bass might spawn offshore, with larger, “smarter” fish avoiding high boat traffic in traditional spawning areas. In this bass fishing video, he aims to help anglers identify these potential main lake spawning areas and improve their pre-spawn techniques for targeting bigger bass.

Where Do The Biggest Bass Spawn?
Ebare believes they are NOT in the traditional spawning flats, but the biggest bass are more likely to spawn in the main lake areas where they can easily move in and out, and avoid the crowded traditional spawning locations.

0:00 Can Warmer Bottom Influence Early Spawn?
0:42 Challenging Traditional Beliefs & Main Lake Bass Spawning Areas
1:13 Visualizing Main Lake Structures as Terrestrial Terrain
1:47 Prevalence of Main Lake Spawning
2:20 Targeting Main Lake Spawning Areas for Bigger Bass
3:30 Examples of Main Lake Spawning Locations