Why Ledge Fishing is the Easiest Way to Bass Fish

I lay out how ledge fishing is actually the easiest way to catch bass and learn about schools of fish

I have been fishing ledges for roughly two decades. I am not an old school ledge fisherman so to speak, who had to triangulate everything with two points on opposite banks to line up my spots. And I didn’t have to leave a buoy out to find the school. Truth is, I learned how to ledge fish when Side Imaging was first released by Humminbird back in the mid 2000s.

Back then Kentucky Lake had mega-schools, and once you learned how to find corners and deep flats adjacent to river and creek channels, finding schools with side imaging was just a function of time. The more you looked, the more schools you found. In fact, I spent one summer scanning from the Ky Lake bridge to the Danville Ferry and back up the other side of the river channel. I think it was 2010 or 2011. I found more than 200 schools that year from May until October. And what was fascinating was those places continued to holds schools for almost a decade.

As everyone became more proficient at finding schools of fish (something we helped teach a lot of anglers how to do on Wired2fish), more baits were being developed for ledge fishing. And the ledge fishing boom exploded. The TVA became ground zero for ledge fishing as well as several lakes in Texas, Alabama and even some highland impoundments, like Table Rock in Missouri, became known for good ledge fishing.

What is Ledge Fishing