{"id":252,"date":"2016-06-30T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fishingjournal.org\/?p=252"},"modified":"2016-07-03T05:08:47","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T05:08:47","slug":"fishing-for-bass-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fishingjournal.org\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Fishing for bass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Went out to Kota-Ray for some post spawn bass. As expected they were hanging under the cattail shelf that surrounds that lake.&nbsp; Did well using a Texas rig firetiger colored soft plastic crawfish.&nbsp; Also tried to catch some perch.&nbsp; Marked a bunch over the main lake flats but all I could catch were less than 6 inches.&nbsp; They may be eating mayfly hatches since they seem to be avoiding structure.&nbsp; Next time I will have to try minnows for the bigger ones.&nbsp; Have a minnow colored gulp bait a try, got a few hits but wasn&#8217;t able to hook one.&nbsp; I was using a surf style rig with the weight on the bottom and 2 hooks off the main line.&nbsp; Water temp was upper 60s but not crazy warm.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fishingjournal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wp-1467521630074.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"wp-1467521630074\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/fishingjournal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wp-1467521630074.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fishingjournal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wp-1467521636834.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"wp-1467521636834\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/fishingjournal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wp-1467521636834.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went out to Kota-Ray for some post spawn bass. As expected they were hanging under the cattail shelf that surrounds that lake.&nbsp; Did well using a Texas rig firetiger colored soft plastic crawfish.&nbsp; Also tried to catch some perch.&nbsp; Marked a bunch over the main lake flats but all I could catch were less than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,12],"tags":[13,15],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-early-summer","category-koya-ray","tag-largemouth-bass","tag-yellow-perch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishingjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishingjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishingjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishingjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishingjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fishingjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/fishingjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishingjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishingjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishingjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}