{"id":3482,"date":"2025-09-14T19:32:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T19:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/?p=3482"},"modified":"2025-09-14T19:33:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T19:33:23","slug":"belton-lake-fishing-report-september-12-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/2025\/09\/14\/belton-lake-fishing-report-september-12-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Belton Lake Fishing Report &#8211; September 12, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Belton is sitting at full pool with stained water (2\u20134 ft visibility) and temps in the low 80s. The bite is very shad-focused right now, with fish suspended in open water rather than relating to structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weightless soft jerkbaits, hard jerkbaits, and minnow-style plastics on a Bass Pro Shops XPS Tungsten Round Ball Jighead have been producing, and forward-facing sonar has been key for staying on these roaming schools. That said, keep your eyes peeled for bass blowing up on shad at the surface \u2014 if you\u2019re quick with a cast, the same baits will catch them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both largemouth and smallmouth are showing up, with the smallmouth averaging a bit larger. On cooler mornings in the 60s, the smallmouth bite has been especially active.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Big Bass Score = 2; Numbers Score = 3; <strong>Total = 5<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belton is sitting at full pool with stained water (2\u20134 ft visibility) and temps in the low 80s. The bite is very shad-focused right now, with fish suspended in open water rather than relating to structure. Weightless soft jerkbaits, hard jerkbaits, and minnow-style plastics on a Bass Pro Shops XPS Tungsten Round Ball Jighead have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[39,37,40,46,41,43,45,44,42],"class_list":{"0":"post-3482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-belton-lake","7":"tag-drop-shot","8":"tag-fall-fishing","9":"tag-jerkbait","10":"tag-largemouth-bass","11":"tag-september","12":"tag-shad-patterns","13":"tag-smallmouth-bass","14":"tag-soft-jerkbait","15":"tag-suspended-bass","16":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3484,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482\/revisions\/3484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}