One reason bass pro Tracy Adams likes to fish Lake Hickory as the spawn approaches is that he doesn’t always have to mess with finicky female bass to put the most weight in his livewell. He said the male bass on Hickory are as big as anywhere he’s ever fished, and that fishermen can make a living putting those aggressive fish in the boat.
“That’s how my daddy and I won all that money all those years; we were catching 3- and 3 ½-pound male bass,” Adams said. “In fact, there are quite a few 3 ½- and 4-pound males in the lake. That’s why sight-fishing is so good; you can catch those quality fish pretty easy.”
Male bass will move up into the shallows and do much of the work constructing the actual spawning bed before corralling a big female and guiding her onto the bed. They’ll aggressively keep intruders out of the bed both before, during and after the female has laid her eggs.
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