Bartlett Lake Fishing Report

THE CALL: Largemouth bass, fall shad-chase pattern — start on the wind-blown south shore where the morning NNE wind pushes bait, fishing the first secondary points in 4–10 ft with a 3/8-oz chartreuse-white chatterbait, from 9:45 AM through the 11:15 minor period. That's the best overlap of calm wind (under 5 mph through 9 AM), low-angle light, and a solunar minor window.

WHY IT WINS

• Water temp: the lake-page reading is 70°F from Oct 29 — 352 hours stale — so this is an estimate: likely low 60s surface by now after mid-November nights in the 50s. That's classic late-fall bait-migration water; shad and bluegill pull toward the backs of coves and first points, and bass follow.
• Wind: 3.8 mph NNE now, staying under 7 mph through 9 AM — enough to stack bait on the south-facing banks without wrecking boat control. The hourly evidence names the south shore as the bank taking the north wind.
• Afternoon is the trap: S wind builds to 11.4 mph with 19.6 mph gusts by 2 PM and rain chance climbs to 25% by 4 PM. The major solunar period (2:31–5:01 PM) lands right in the worst control window — don't chase it.
• Species call: largemouth is the most plausible listed target for this temperature and structure; smallmouth is the backup if you find rock.

START HERE: The wind-blown south shoreline and the first secondary points where a major cove or the Verde River arm meets main-lake water — check the river arm on your map. Work the 4–10 ft band on the points, then the flat behind them. No mapped spot data was supplied, so the start is condition-based: verify bait on your graph before committing to a point.

THROW THIS: 3/8-oz chartreuse-white chatterbait with a white trailer, steady retrieve with occasional rip-pauses, burning it just over the grass or rock on the point. Backup on the same water: a 1/2-oz white spinnerbait with double willow blades if the wind builds early.

BEST WINDOW: Be fishing by 9:30 AM. Air temp climbs 61→68°F through the morning under cloud cover, wind stays under 5 mph until 10, and the minor period runs 9:45–11:15. Off the water or tucked into a cove by 2 PM — gusts near 20 and building rain risk after that.

NEXT MOVE: If the chatterbait draws nothing in 30 minutes on two points, slow down in place — drop shot a 4" worm in green pumpkin on the same points, letting it fall to 10–15 ft down the point's end. That matches the post-front-ish stable-pressure mood (1012 mb, steady) if the fish have slid off the flat. If you mark bait deep with no takers there either, run to the sheltered north shore rock and fish a jig slowly — crawfish are on the rock this time of year.