Fishing with Christie - Early summer bass fishing

Spawning season in the Northern provinces should just about be over. 
In some areas bass may still be in a post-spawn mode that could result in some tough fishing, but in the more northern regions where bass started spawning earlier, bass should start thinking about food again. Early summer is a great time to be on the water fishing.
When bass start feeding after post-spawn, they feed voraciously. This is the best time to play with all the power baits in your tackle box.
Early morning and late evening are good times for a top water bite. Poppers, chuggers, pencil baits and buzz baits worked over shallow feeding flats will entice many bass to blow up all over your lure. Be warned though: bass hooked on a top water lure tend to jump a lot, and you may lose more fish than you land, but it is great fun! 
Look for good feeding flats close to the areas where you found bass spawning earlier in the spring. Good feeding flats will be close to deep water, have some form of cover or structure situated on them, and must have large numbers of baitfish in the area. No bait = no bass. Remember, a long shallow point can also be considered a good feeding ‘flat’.
Mid-morning and late afternoon - As the sun moves up higher and the day becomes brighter, swop the top water lures for shallow swimming lures. Stick baits, jerk baits, spinner baits, chatter bait, lipless crank baits, shallow-diving and/or balsa crank baits can all be worked over and through shallow cover.
Gradually pull away from the shallower water you were fishing early in the morning, and start fishing slightly deeper.
The bass should still be cruising the flats, but will start moving toward the first break-line or drop-off adjacent to the flats. Instead of fishing randomly, start concentrating more on the cover or structure found on the flat.  As the sun rises bass will start to move toward the shadows and ambush points offered by the cover and the deeper water.
Midday is the time to switch to deeper-diving crank baits, jigs, and soft plastic lures. You can still fish with your spinner bait, but will now have to slow down the retrieve and slow-roll the bait so that it can be worked in deeper water.  Bass are now in ambush mode.
Fish the first break-line or drop-off closest to those shallow feeding flats you were targeting earlier. Concentrate on cover or structure found on the top edge of the drop or at the deepest part of the drop. Often bass will be suspended off the drop, and will pick up your bait as it falls over the edge.

Stealth is Essential
When you are fishing in shallow water it is of the utmost importance to keep boat noise down. Do not use your main motor, unless you are ready to leave the area. It is better to use your electric motor at a low constant speed than a higher intermittent speed. It is said that the constant vibration is less disturbing to shallow-water bass than the on-off disturbance caused by the sudden surge of the blade. Make sure the prop-wash is directed away from the area you are fishing.
Do not slam your hatch or your tackle box lids. Do not shout at your wife or your kids. Do not allow the boat to slam into trees, rocks, jetties, or other cover found in shallow water.
In other words; be stealthy as a leopard stalking its prey!