Pattern of the Month
The Bass/Bluegill Connection
While everyone else is offshore, you can have success by going shallow
You don’t win on the Bassmaster Elite Series without being versatile, and veteran pro Chad Morgenthaler has a summer strategy that could separate you from the pack when the going gets tough. It’s a pattern tailor-made for sweltering summer days when the current is slow and you need to catch a bass after the morning bite has faded: battering bluegill beds.
“People overlook this bluegill pattern because they are focusing out deep,” explains Morgenthaler. “But if the bluegill are spawning, bass will be up shallow around them.”
As Morgenthaler elaborates, he urges anglers to consider the bluegill, often a blanket term used by
