{"id":4044,"date":"2026-08-18T17:19:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T22:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/?p=4044"},"modified":"2026-08-18T17:19:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T22:19:27","slug":"inks-lake-fishing-report-august-15-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/2026\/08\/18\/inks-lake-fishing-report-august-15-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Inks Lake Fishing Report \u2013 Offshore Gizzard Shad Bite & Key Feeding Windows (August 15, 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Inks Lake is offering stained water with 2\u20134 feet of visibility, water temperatures around 84 degrees, and a water level at normal pool. The best fishing has been around offshore rock where schools of bass are feeding on large gizzard shad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Large swimbaits and topwaters have been producing well, with early morning, late evening, and periods of dam generation providing the best feeding windows. Outside of these windows, urchin style baits fished around cover and structure have been producing consistent bites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Big Bass Score = 4; Numbers Score = 2; Total = 6<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A couple of big Inks Lake bass from a productive summer feeding window. These fish were part of schools of bass using offshore rock to ambush large gizzard shad.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Inks Lake is offering stained water with 2\u20134 feet of visibility, water temperatures around 84 degrees, and a water level at normal pool. The best fishing has been around offshore rock where schools of bass are feeding on large gizzard shad. Large swimbaits and topwaters have been producing well, with early morning, late evening, and […]<\/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":[47],"tags":[246,242,159,144,143,147,168,191,243,204,201,174,186,240],"class_list":["post-4044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-inks-lake","tag-dam-generation-fishing","tag-gizzard-shad-bass-fishing","tag-highland-lakes-fishing","tag-inks-lake","tag-inks-lake-bass-fishing","tag-inks-lake-fishing-report","tag-low-light-bass-fishing","tag-offshore-bass-fishing","tag-offshore-rock-fishing","tag-schooling-bass-fishing","tag-summer-bass-fishing","tag-swimbait-fishing-bass","tag-topwater-bass-fishing","tag-urchin-style-bait","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044","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=4044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4045,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044\/revisions\/4045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}