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Ok, I love 2 fish. I found a river that has a lot of hot spots. I have been doing the worm catfish rig, doing great on cat & carp, big ones! In this pond there is a pipe that pushes in water and I cast to the side of the the flowing water. When I try to fish for bass the current is to fast so my lures don't work right. The cat and the carp hold to the sides of the pipe. Where are the bass located?

Answer
It depends on the current and how far it goes before dissapating.
I would guess they would be at the end of the current or on the edges. If the catfish and carp are there, then maybe the bass are someplace else totally different. Some of it will depend on what is coming in from the pipe. If it is nothing but water and dead worms and dead things then that is why the carp are staying. Bass like to eat live things but will hit dead stuff when nothing else presents. Try throwing some minnows further out from the pipe and around the edges of the current. After that try the end of the current and then try some crank baits or artificial worms drifted in the current. IF that does not work then try other places near by. Bass could be staging out away from the pipe waiting to feed at different times than the cats and carp.
Jim Dicken