{"id":4082,"date":"2026-09-22T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T01:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/?p=4082"},"modified":"2026-09-22T20:19:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T01:19:00","slug":"inks-lake-fishing-report-september-21-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/2026\/09\/22\/inks-lake-fishing-report-september-21-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Inks Lake Fishing Report \u2013 Quality Bass Feeding on Offshore Gizzard Shad (September 21, 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inks Lake is offering stained water with temperatures around 80 degrees and a water level at normal pool. The best fishing has been around offshore rock where schools of quality bass are feeding on large gizzard shad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Big topwater baits and large swimbaits have been producing well around these feeding schools. Finding areas holding large concentrations of gizzard shad has been the key to locating active bass. Overall, the fishing has been good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Big Bass Score = 4; Numbers Score = 3; <strong>Total = 7<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/inks-lake-big-bass-drop-shot-09-21-2026.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/inks-lake-big-bass-drop-shot-09-21-2026.jpeg\" alt=\"Client holding a large Inks Lake bass caught on a drop-shot rigged finesse worm while targeting an offshore school\" class=\"wp-image-4078\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/inks-lake-big-bass-drop-shot-09-21-2026.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/inks-lake-big-bass-drop-shot-09-21-2026-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A quality Inks Lake bass caught on a drop-shot rigged finesse worm while targeting an offshore school of bass feeding on gizzard shad. This fish was landed on 8-pound-test P-Line fluorocarbon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inks Lake is offering stained water with temperatures around 80 degrees and a water level at normal pool. The best fishing has been around offshore rock where schools of quality bass are feeding on large gizzard shad. Big topwater baits and large swimbaits have been producing well around these feeding schools. Finding areas holding large [&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":[47],"tags":[238,251,255,242,159,144,143,147,191,243,204,254,174,186],"class_list":["post-4082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-inks-lake","tag-baitfish-pattern-bass-fishing","tag-big-bass-fishing","tag-fall-bass-fishing","tag-gizzard-shad-bass-fishing","tag-highland-lakes-fishing","tag-inks-lake","tag-inks-lake-bass-fishing","tag-inks-lake-fishing-report","tag-offshore-bass-fishing","tag-offshore-rock-fishing","tag-schooling-bass-fishing","tag-september-bass-fishing","tag-swimbait-fishing-bass","tag-topwater-bass-fishing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082","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=4082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4083,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082\/revisions\/4083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}