I just started bass fishing. What is the best bait to use?
March 5, 2010
If you have any other tips then please tell me.
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March 5, 2010
If you have any other tips then please tell me.
6 Responses to “I just started bass fishing. What is the best bait to use?”
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My current favorite is the plastics. A senko type lure rigged weightless and retrieved with numerous twitches and pauses of the rod tip. Fish it slowly. It wont let you down.
Crickets or minnows
I use Large Night Crawlers we call them but there just very large Worms and a Bobber, It works great.
crank baits
crawlers
spinner baits
nitro worms
crappie minnows
" BEST bait " is a relative word. Things change rapidly in the fishing world. Water temperature is one of the most significant factors that determine fish activity and what they choose to pursue. In small ponds the water temp can swing as much as 15 degrees from day to night or even day to day particularly at this time of year. Now I’ve found that where I live on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada, a black or dark colored plastic worm gets the most overall results year round. But in the colder months I’ve had great success using small trout lures like Mepps spinners and broken back Rapulas. In the warmer months they like bright colored spinner baits, crank baits, and an overall wider range of stuff, even dry flies on a fly rod. Every lake / pond / river will act differently under any set of conditions so you have to be diligent and creative while keeping track of what works and what doesn’t . Some guys even keep a log book with all the info for the conditions like date, time, temp, water ph, water clarity, flow, moon phases, and what worked so they can refer to it at a later time.
if you are just starting, you need to become proficient with plastic worms. start with texas rigged 6" ones. those will get you the most fish and won’t cost a fortune to buy.