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Hello Anglers,
Bass Fishing Tip for Today:
Spinnerbaits make excellent night time fishing baits.
Unlike daylight conditions you will want a dark color.
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Early Winter Fishing: Lures, Tips, Tactics
By Dave Brummond/ bassresource.com
Early winter can be a very frustrating time of year for trophy
largemouth bass or it can be the most exciting time of year.
If you fish the right lake, at the right time, you can have the
best bass fishing of your life, and good enough to count for
someone else's life too.
Spinnerbait
Excellent Choice this for this time of year, best when fished
in 3- to 7-feet of water. Bright colors such as orange, white,
and chartreuse produce best in murky water conditions and trans-
lucent colors such as light gray generate best in clear water.
Using a slow retrieve this time of year due to the decreasing
water temperature is a common tactic. On the other hand, make
sure to always let the bass tell you what speed they prefer,
vary retrieves until you catch a few. Adding twitches with the
rod tip for a reaction strike can be a useful method as well.
If you are attracting tentative bass that are short striking,
experiment with a trailer hook.
Spinnerbaits most commonly produce best when fished around
cover like logs, stumps, lily pads, salad bars and a top
producer, downed trees. So far this year, I have landed four
bass between 5.8-6.9 pounds, ending up with ten bass over 3.8
pounds in October. The most recent whopper was a 21.5 inch
largemouth Halloween morning caught on tandem Colorado white
spinnerbait in two feet of water. Now that's exciting!
Jig and Pig
Black/blue is the best color for this lure in off colored
water. Considering off colored water is about the only color
you'll find this time of year with all the rain. Black and
brown are excellent choices as well.
Most anglers tie on this bait during a cold front when the
bass have buried themselves in cover. Many anglers use it as
a "go-to" bait when they can't buy a bite with any other lure.
Make sure to fish this bait slow this time of the year. Flip
or pitch between 5- to 15-feet around dense cover such as
thick weeds, logs, and downed trees. Once it settles to the
bottom, utilize the rattle (always have a rattle on your jig)
by lightly shaking the jig to make fish aware of its presence.
Hop the jig four to five times delaying about five seconds
between movements and pitch again. Work it into stump roots,
and drop it so it penetrates into thick weeds. Once you feel
the lure brush against cover, shake the rod tip to exploit your
rattle to attract curiosity from a nearby bass.
I highly recommend that you use Stren clear-blue or any other
high visibility line to detect sudden line twitches. The high
visibility line allows you to see any suspicious line move-
ments. If you should see or feel anything strange, different,
or out of the ordinary, set the hook immediately.
Floating Rapalas
This is well known top producer this time of year. The bass
are in the shallows looking for an easy meal to start the
winter. They do not want to chase a meal too far where they
begin to tire. Rather they prefer an easy-to-eat bait such
as a dying minnow.
A rainbow trout colored Rapala twitched next to dying lily
pads is a deadly method. Make a cast next to cover or towards
the shoreline, twitch it underwater and allow it to float to
the surface. Make about five twitches and then bring it in
like a crankbait, jerking it underwater back to the boat.
Do not set the hook very hard, it's easy to jerk too quick and
take the bait out of its mouth. Wait until the splash is gone
to assure yourself a solid hook set.
7 inch Power worm
This is a great weapon to have in your arsenal this time of
year. The most common size is a 6-inch worm, yet a 4-inch can
be just as effective. Texas or Carolina rigged (18'' between
hook and swivel) worms will produce year round. Ideal when
working drop-offs and breaklines.
Cast out to structure and let it settle to the bottom. Hop it
slowly such as a jig, in-between hops shake the rod tip to
allow the brass and glass combination to make noise and
possibly attract a fish from nearby dense cover. Keep your
rod tip high to detect light bites, be ready to set the hook
at any moment.
It's also extremely effective under docks and around logs and
various underwater structure and cover. Make sure you always
use glass with brass weights. Vary the size of your brass
weights depending on the size of worm and depth of water you
are fishing.
Rat-L-Trap
This lure is ideal this time of year as well, mainly for big
bass. It is extremely noisy and attracts bass from a distant
cover and structure. It's best when used in depths ranging
from 6-inches to 10-feet deep.
Retrieve it just fast enough to stay a little above the weed-
line, or bottom. Give it sudden twitches for maximum sound.
This lure can cause a reaction from a big bass holding next to
cover. Run this bait parallel to docks and lily pad edges. You
can even run it down the side of a log. Keep your rod tip in
the air. Don't set the hook too hard as a worm or jig -
they'll usually hook themselves. I recommend you change the
factory hooks with larger hooks the day you buy the bait. Big
mouths require big hooks.
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