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A bass is a bass, many tactics work for stripers and large or smallmouth bass. Same with water temps and sunlight, seasonal patterns for largemouth aren't all that different from Stripers; less the migratory part of the equation.
Get up early and you will be rewarded with some topwater action, rapalas, skitterpops, zara spooks or frog or rats on the edges of pad fields. Like stripers, freshwater bass are structure orinentated and more territorial, unless your on a very large impoundment where they might move more with bait populations.
Like stripers after the morning shallower and upper column bite, move out and deeper; crankbaits, jig-pig, carolina rig deeper edges of structure or deep weedbeds. If that water holds smallies, that deep hole might be fun with a live green frog or yellow perch and split shot. If you like conventional gear, can't beat a spinnerbait hit when buzzed just under the surface on a calm early summer morning on the edge of cover; that is the ultimate slam. Later in the fall with the water rises over the tops of weedbeds that same spinner bait fished tick, tick, tick on the top of the weeds will call some great hits.
Jig&pig is still one of the best big bass freshwater baits going, boy I'm almost tempted to get a freshwater license and get back to my routes.
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