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Spring Bass Fishing: Secrets From the Pros
Spring’s warming weather gets bass anglers going because it gets bass moving toward shallow water, where they’re more accessible. However, they’re not necessarily easier to catch. Even pros admit that spring bass fishing can pose a real challenge when it comes to locating and catching fish. That’s why most of them keep notes on how they do it.
Five Tips for Catching Topwater Bass
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Catch More Bass Near Boathouses and Docks
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Tune a Crank-Bait | Field & Stream
Keep your lure running true—and catching more bass Updated: June 19, 2020 You'll need a pocketknife and needle-nose pliers to tune your favorite crankbait.Dave Hurteau The effectiveness of a crankbait depends primarily on how straight and deep it runs during a retrieve.
Frog Fishing: 15 Ways to Catch More Bass on Topwater Frog Lures
Fishing Freshwater Fishing Bass Fishing A nice largemouth falls for a frog lure. Shaye Baker SHARE We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Every topwater strike makes bass fishing more fun. But there’s something about topwater frog fishing—watching that almost comical-looking bait hop and sputter and then get suddenly obliterated—that takes fishing’s fun factor to another level.
Spring Bass Fishing: Secrets From the Pros
The first hint of spring’s warming weather gets bass anglers going because it gets bass moving toward shallow water, where they’re more accessible. However, they’re not necessarily easier to catch. Even pros admit that spring bass fishing can pose a real challenge when it comes to locating and catching fish. That’s why most of them keep notes on how they do it.
Spring Bass Fishing: Secrets From the Pros
Spring’s warming weather gets bass anglers going because it gets bass moving toward shallow water, where they’re more accessible. However, they’re not necessarily easier to catch. Even pros admit that spring bass fishing can pose a real challenge when it comes to locating and catching fish. That’s why most of them keep notes on how they do it.
Where and How to Catch Late-Summer Largemouths
By late summer, bass fishing is not for the faint of heart. Largemouths are often deep and lethargic, and they’re also frequently starting to relocate and suspend at mid-depth ranges as forage begins to move. This is when professional anglers start following the ABCs of summer fishing. “The ABCs stand for aquatic vegetation, bridges, and current, three shortcuts to finding fish,” says veteran tournament pro and Lake Fork guide James Niggemeyer.
Trigger More Bass Strikes With These Bait Combos
Bass strike but miss lures for a variety of reasons—your retrieve is too fast or too slow, your lure is the wrong size or color. But this still tells you two important things: where the fish are, and that they’re in an aggressive mood. They’re catchable, too, if you cast back immediately. The key is using a totally different lure to draw an impulse strike. These four combos will knock bass out this month: [1] Spinnerbait to Light Tube Jig: Flashing blades and vibration attracted the bass.
Trigger More Bass Strikes With These Bait Combos
Bass strike but miss lures for a variety of reasons—your retrieve is too fast or too slow, your lure is the wrong size or color. But this still tells you two important things: where the fish are, and that they’re in an aggressive mood. They’re catchable, too, if you cast back immediately. The key is using a totally different lure to draw an impulse strike. These four combos will knock bass out this month: [1] Spinnerbait to Light Tube Jig: Flashing blades and vibration attracted the bass.
Three Spinnerbait Tips from Bass Pro Alton Jones
Cliff Gardiner & John Keller Bass tournament pro Alton Jones won the 2008 Bassmaster Classic with jigs, but the Texas angler is equally skilled at using spinnerbaits. At this time of year, he carries more spinnerbaits than jigs in his tackle box because they may be the most versatile bass lures of spring and early summer. Here are three tactics and modifications that the champ relies on to get the most out of a spinnerbait.
Tweak Your Bass Lures to Create Effective Custom baits
Most Ordinary bass lures will catch fish straight out of the box. But only a few minutes of tweaking can make a bait much more effective for specific situations. Here are the two modifications my buddies and I use most often on our home water of Lake Fork, Texas. Since I’ve tried them, my catch rate has gone up considerably. For deep-water crankbait modifications, go to fieldandstream.com/crankbaitfix.
Trophy Hunt
Field & Stream Online Editors To catch a trophy-class largemouth, you’ve got to forget about the places you usually find fish and think deeper. Experienced anglers and biologists agree that when a bass grows large enough (usually between 4 and 8 pounds) to become the dominant fish in its immediate environment, its lifestyle changes dramatically. Most important to fishermen, big bass move into deeper water-on average, 4 to 5 feet deeper than smaller bass.
Catch More Largemouth Bass in Weeds in Early Spring
Vegetation is one of the best places to start searching for largemouths in the spring. That doesn’t mean the fishing is easy, though: Many grassbeds are vast and can extend from the shallows out to surprising depths. Fishermen who focus on one body of water will, over time, figure out where in the weeds the bass will be, but tournament anglers don’t have that luxury–they have to find bass now.
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