Understanding Bass Wolf Packs

Wolf Packs (Wolfpacks) typically refers to a group of (larger) bass roaming together in shallow water.

It is important to understand bass wolf packs to:

Sight Fish: Anglers that either opportunistically, or actively looking for wolf packs, fishing shallow in high lure visibility.
Shoreline Structure Fishing: When fishing a bank keeping an eye open for the areas with no cover to observe a wolf pack and having a rod ready sometimes referred to as a follow-up bait.
No Cover Fishing Shallow: When covering water with the trolling motor in areas with no cover either because you are moving locations or looking for cover some suggest always staying alert to identify a wolf pack as typically only have time for one cast.

Roaming: When bass are in wolf packs they are actively hunting for forage. Some suggest they are targeting specific forage. Also, some suggest that bass are targeting forage ahead of them and not going to turn if potential forage is detected to the side or behind them.
Bass Size: Generally, each member of the wolf pack is the same size and typically on the large size for that body of water. In other words, small bass do not display wolf back behavior.
Bass Quantity: Generally four or five on the rare occasions more.
Locations: Generally observed near the shoreline albeit the behavior locations are not completely known.
Range: Some believe wolf packs are near continuously roaming looking for forage and some suggest they have set routes they travel when actively feeding. Some studies suggest that bass have a home range where they live their life.
Seasons: Some suggest peak bass wolf pack behavior is after the bass spawn as that is when bait fish spawn which is also shallow.