Fish Finder Trick to Find Bass Fast in the Winter | 3 Hour Challenge

In this 3 hour challenge, I show you how to use your fish finder to find winter bass quickly by eliminating unproductive banks. I also share bass fishing instruction on lures, baits, areas, cover, and structure using topographical maps. Hope you enjoy the tips!

-Jonny

Baits Mentioned in this Video:

Jewel Bait Finesse Jig – Green Gourd

Zoom Critter Craw – Watermelon Red

Quantum Smoke S3 Casting Rod 7'2" Med Hvy

Abu Garcia Black Max Casting Reel

Fish Finder Recommendations (I’m not sponsored by any of these brands)

Beginner/Budget Fish Finder

Lowrance Hook2 7 Series Sonar TripleShot US/Can Nav+ (Side and Down Imaging)

Intermediate Fish Finder

Lowrance Elite-9 Ti2 Fishfinder/Chartplotters

Advanced/Expert Fish Finder

Lowrance HDS-12 Live Fishfinder/Chartplotters

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Links to Videos Mentioned

Fish Finder Secret Pros Don't Want You To Know! | Bass Fishing
Sonar

Easy Guide: How Deep Bass Live Offshore | Thermocline Explained

Complete Guide to Bass Fishing Electronics | SideScan, DownScan, and 2D Sonar Explained

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[jaywagner]

U southern guys are very lucky. Fishing 58-60° water in winter. We are lucky if there is non frozen lakes in winter. Awesome channel!

[FishOn]

Really enjoy these 3 hour challenges,

[poststalone]

I really enjoy your breakdowns from graph to topo map to conditions to the actual fishing. Recently found you and I’ve even been going back and watching your older videos. Thanks for the content!

[lakeratatouille]

Hey could you do a breakdown on your favorite winter clothing for fishing?

[batfreak]

You realy do a great job educating vs just watching you fish. Tying in maps to shppw and clarrify along with graph images really are great. Please keep up the great work.

[jawjerker]

Always a great vid and informative!!! Appreciate everything you do!!

[RhinoVenturesOutdoors]

Great challenge! I have friends who are quite fond of Beaver Lake, but I"ve never fished it.

[treylawrence]

Great video as always. Super helpful to hear how you break down a lake. For us bank fishermen, I'd love to see a video where you analyze a pond in the same way.

[charlespinson]

This is a Fun and Informative post. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Can’t wait for the find my kicker fish post you have coming up. Great work!

[pittsburghangler]

Once water temps drop below 55 on the lakes up here in western PA its a struggle and i pretty much give up on largemouths and switch to smallies. I love these videos. Cant wait to see you continue these videos as the water temps drop.

[caliyak_fishing]

Great stuff. Can you do a vid on reservoirs? out here in Cali, we have a lot reservoirs. Can you apply this great info on a pond body of water?

[Hogster]

I think Beaver lake has trophy Stripers. I love to see you go after that.

[leonardcantrell]

Beaver lake would be our best lake, we'll take it right now. Thanks

[saelee]

Super super nice video. Aways love ur video! I like it now because also crappie season!!! Do you crappie fish?

[igorkondrya]

Good job on putting 5 bass in the boat.
I'm surprised how warm water temp is. Fishing with one lure is so hard for me. I'm always trying different lures. Probably would switch 5 lures during the first hour of this challenge.

[travis]

What gloves do you recommend for fishing this time of year?

[Hardonfishing]

We have Florida strain bass in my local fisheries.. When the water temp drops they don’t want to bite

[golfnutt]

What gloves are you using in this video? I haven’t been able to find any that I can fish with that aren’t to bulky.

[wesleyhughes]

Aleays enjoy your videos!
Observation/question: I notice that you graph offshore to locate bass. You even indicate when they are actively feeding or not as you mentioned in this video. When you graph closer to the bank (generally more shallow water), you look for structure or bait or both. Question: why not graph in the more shallow water that is closer to the bank to find the bass like you do offshore. Obviously there is a reason - probably due to depth of water, but would love for you to explain. Seems like you are able to more effectively use your electronics to catch bass offshore as opposed to near shore at relative to actually seeing the bass on graph.

[tomday]

Enjoyed. Good results for Beaver on a tough day. What gloves are you using?