{"id":4089,"date":"2026-09-28T14:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/?p=4089"},"modified":"2026-09-28T14:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:50:10","slug":"inks-lake-fishing-report-september-28-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/2026\/09\/28\/inks-lake-fishing-report-september-28-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Inks Lake Fishing Report \u2013 Offshore Gizzard Shad Bite Heating Up (September 28, 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inks Lake is offering stained water with temperatures around 79 degrees and a water level at normal pool. The best fishing continues to be around offshore rock where schools of quality bass are feeding heavily on large gizzard shad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Big topwater baits and large swimbaits continue to produce well around these feeding schools. Finding areas holding large concentrations of gizzard shad remains the key to locating active bass. Overall, the fishing has been excellent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Big Bass Score = 5; Numbers Score = 4; <strong>Total = 9<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/inks-lake-bass-fishing-24-pound-bag-09-28-2026.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/inks-lake-bass-fishing-24-pound-bag-09-28-2026-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Two longtime friends fishing together on Inks Lake with a quality largemouth bass\" class=\"wp-image-4086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/inks-lake-bass-fishing-24-pound-bag-09-28-2026-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/inks-lake-bass-fishing-24-pound-bag-09-28-2026-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/inks-lake-bass-fishing-24-pound-bag-09-28-2026-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/inks-lake-bass-fishing-24-pound-bag-09-28-2026.jpeg 1286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A pretty special day on Inks Lake with an old childhood friend I hadn&#8217;t seen in more than 20 years! We caught over 20 bass and finished with close to 24 pounds for our best five.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inks Lake is offering stained water with temperatures around 79 degrees and a water level at normal pool. The best fishing continues to be around offshore rock where schools of quality bass are feeding heavily on large gizzard shad. Big topwater baits and large swimbaits continue to produce well around these feeding schools. Finding areas [&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":[238,255,242,159,144,143,147,191,243,257,204,254,174,186],"class_list":["post-4089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-inks-lake","tag-baitfish-pattern-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-quality-bass-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\/4089","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=4089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4090,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions\/4090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andermeine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}