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10 Bass Fishing Secrets from Professional Anglers
1. Save Shredded Worms
When your fictile worms get torn up, save ’ em. Bass like to ambush wounded prey, so a battered writhe is perfect to use, particularly in shallow water.
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– antony Gagliardi, 2006 FLW Tour Land O ’ Lakes Angler of the class
2. Red Fools the Fish
In shallow cover—wood, stumps, clumps of grass—I like to use a spinner bait with a bolshevik or pinko head, and a grouch bait with red hooks. The crimson makes the fish think the tease ’ s injured, and they ’ ll bite at it .
– George Cochran, 2005 Wal-Mart FLW Tour Championship winner
3. Skip Your Bait
When you cast, stop halfway rather of following through, similar to a bridle golf stroke in baseball. This makes the entice hit the airfoil of the urine a few feet before your aim, so the entice skitters over the body of water. It ’ s a adept way to get under docks and early structures .
– microphone Iaconelli, 2004 CITGO Bassmaster Classic champion
4. Keep Your Hooks Sharp
I use a file to sharpen my hooks every prison term I catch a fish and before every stumble. It takes 30 seconds. Bass have boney jaws, so a acute bait is more apposite to penetrate the fish .
– tag Zona, host of ESPN Outdoors
5. Look at Your Livewell Water
When you put a bass in the livewell, they ’ re ill-famed for spitting up what they were feeding on. From there you can tell what color lure or kind of bait to throw the rest of the day .
– flat Herren, No. 2 ranked goosefish, 2006 Wal-Mart FLW Tour
6. Face the Wind
Sacrifice some distance in your casts and fish with the wind in your font. Bass constantly swim with the current, so it ’ second better for them to find your bait before they find your boat. Plus, the noise of body of water slapping your hull will carry aside from the spot you ’ rhenium fish, which is good .
– Ish Monroe, winner of the 2006 Battle on the Border
7. Fish Shallow in the Spring
In the spring bass hang out in spawning beds. Concentrate on shallow areas, specially in pockets and coves protected from the wind because this is where they like to guard their eggs. They ’ ll sting as a lot out of irritation with the bait as they will out of hunger .
– jay Yelas, 2003 Bassmaster Angler of the year
8. Make Your Bait Seasonal
Bass eat different bait depending on the fourth dimension of class. The general rule is early in the year they like crayfish, so use peach-colored patterns. In the summer and fall they like shad, so consumption chrome or flatware baits .
– microphone Hawkes, 2006 Wal-Mart FLW Series consequence winner, Lake Cumberland
9. Fish before the storm
The best time to fish bass is before a front comes through, and the worst prison term to fish them is after. The blackmail makes the freshwater bass more active, sol watch for a wall of clouds moving in. When it ’ s besides pretty out, sea bass aren ’ t likely to bite .
– Forrest L. Wood, Ranger Boats laminitis and namesake of FLW Outdoors
10. Bug Those Bass
Bass is an cantankerous fish. You have to keep tap at it to upset it into biting your hook. Bass stead themselves in cover, and like the entice presented to them at different angles. I ’ ve tossed lures a hundred times onto the same location until ultimately getting a pungency .
– beam Scott, sea bass fish caption and laminitis of BASS
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More Bass Fishing Tips
Along with all of the information available about bass fish, there is besides a draw of misinformation out there. Learn to separate fact from fabrication by reading this list of the Top Ten Bass Fishing Myths. And if you want to learn about bass fish with kids, we have more tips from a professional bass angler for you in Fishing with Kids : Tips from Bass Pro Kevin Van Dam .
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Editor’s Note: This article was in the first place published in May 2016 by Darren Wendroff, and updated in June 2019 by Lenny Rudow .
