The top tactic for bass on Lake Seminole right now is to just throw the tackle box at them. That’s the assessment of veteran guide Steven Wells.

“You can’t really put a pattern on the bass,” Wells said. “They are everywhere in the lake and at all depths.”

Wells, who guides with his wife, pro angler Pam Martin Wells, said the water temperature is running 88-90 degrees across the lake and the bass can be found from two feet deep out to 20 feet deep.

“I don’t know what the fish are doing. There’s just no rhyme or reason to be scattered out like that, but they are just everywhere,” Wells said.

On Tuesday afternoon Pam and Steven hit the lake around 7 p.m. for a short fishing trip. They caught five bass on topwater – two of them over 8 pounds.

“The fish we caught yesterday were on grass, about eight feet deep. Pam was throwing a bait similar to a Zara Spook and I was throwing a Boy Howdy, an old-time favorite on Seminole.”

Wells said the winner of a tournament last Saturday on Seminole was five bass that weighed 28 pounds. “That’s a pretty good average,” he said in tongue-in-cheek understatement.

Wells said he has caught fish deep on Tiki Sticks, the Wave Worm product like a Senko, rigged with a weight to fish deep, along with Carolina rigs, topwater, swimming frogs and other baits.

“Just a little bit of everything,” he said. “We’ve heard of a lot of people catching them on frogs like the Tiki Toads and Zoom Horny Toads. We’re not really getting bit on those, but I know a lot of people are fishing them over the grass.”

If bass are not your cup of tea, the bream are bedding like crazy, Wells said.

“We carried a man and his wife and 8-year-old daughter this morning and caught 43-44 good-sized bream on crickets. A lot of people are fishing for bream with flyrods, finding willow flies on the deeper flies and throwing a little popper with rubber bands sticking out the side,” Wells said.

Wells said he has heard the perch are also biting good, but he does not often fish for perch.

“I saw some guys the other day fishing in deep water in Spring Creek. They told Jack (Wingate, owner of the famous Wingate Fishing Lodge) they had caught a bunch of perch there the day before.

Wells’ wife, Pam, is ranked third in the Women’s Bassmaster Tour points race for this inaugural year of the new women’s fishing circuit. She tied for third at Lewisville Lake at Lewisville, Texas, several weeks ago.

The Wells guide for bass, bream and shellcrackers on Lake Seminole. To book a fishing trip, call them at (229) 246-2030.