If you don’t like bass fishing on lakes like Carters, which have blueback herring in them, get away from the herring. That’s a tip Greg Vinson just shared on Bassmaster LIVE, and it’s one that has paid off for him today. Vinson caught his fifth keeper just before 9 a.m. and is leading the tournament with 8 pounds, 15 ounces. Vinson is far up the Coosawattee River, the main tributary of Carters Lake.
“You can get away from them,” Vinson said of the herring. “Get far enough up the river where the fish are feeding on shad.”
Schools of blueback herring are prone to roam the main body of a lake, and the bass follow them. It can be frustrating fishing that “here-one-minute, gone-the-next” pattern.
By running far up the river, where the bass are feeding on shad, Vinson doesn’t have to contend with those roamers. He just made his first cull of the day. All his fish have come on a jerkbait.