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Hello Anglers,
Here are some helpful jerk bait tips:
* Incredibly long casts are possible with jerk flash so you
cover more water.
* The jerk flash gives more side to side, darting action
than any other jerk bait. Keep your rod tip low and pop your
rod with each jerk and always feed slack line to the jerk
flash during pauses.
* Holographic finishes give more flash.
* Bass always bite as the jerk flash is stopped. Do not stop
it long. Keep it moving with short pauses.
* Keep the jerk flash erratic. make it jump side to side, up
and down.
* The jerk flash runs 1 to 2 feet deep on 12 pound line.
* Fish the jerk flash over grass, around brush or on rocky
points. Use jerk flash as a search bait to find the bass.
* The darting action makes bass strike out of reflex.
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Enjoy a week of fishing!
Brock
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How To Fish Visible Cover
By Extreme Bass Lures
Fishing visible cover: stumps, trees, weedbeds, rocks, boat
docks, and other bass holding objects that can be seen with
the naked eye is the classic way to cast for bass. But today,
with more anglers fishing for bass than ever before and with
the average angler more highly skilled than in the past,
visible is often subjected to intense fishing pressure. The
result: It's harder and harder to catch quality bass from
visible cover. This makes it more important than ever to
know how to fish it right.
TYPES OF VISIBLE COVER: Here are some of the types of visible
cover you're likely to encounter in your area bass waters:
Weeds and Grasses.
Shallow tributaries, shorelines and coves often harbor
visible aquatic plants. Emergent grasses such as bulrushes,
maidencane, and cattails protrude above the surface. These
serve as a bridge for terrestrial creatures, especially
insects, to enter the water. Surface plants such as water
lilies are rooted on the bottom and often have a flowering
plant growing on the surface. Submerged grasses such as
milfoil, hydrilla, coontail, and eelgrass grow beneath the
surface, however some types may form a thick mat on top.
Pond scum is a thick surface coating of algae that forms in
hot weather in slack water.
Wood.
Stumps, brushpiles, fallen trees, and standing timber are
all popular visible targets among bass anglers.
Rocks. Bass will hold around large rocks or rockpiles in
shallow water, especially in rivers where they use these as
current breaks.
Man Made Cover.
Boat docks, duck blinds, and virtually anything else man
puts in shallow water may attract bass.
Mudlines.
Where muddy water forms around a bank due to wave action or
enters a clear lake via a tributary after heavy rains, a
mudline sets up. Bass use this for concealment, hiding at
the edge where stained and clear water meet.
APPROACHING AND FISHING VISIBLE COVER: Whether or not you
will catch a bass from visible cover is often determined
before you ever make your first cast to it. Here are some
tips pro anglers keep in mind when approaching and fishing
visible cover:
Wear Polarized Sunglasses.
These reduce glare and allow you to spot objects beneath the
surface more easily. Many anglers wear Polarized glasses
with black or gray lenses on sunny days and brown lenses on
overcast days.
Approach With Caution.
Think of yourself as a predator. Use stealth when moving
within casting distance of your target especially in clear
water. Bass are wary creatures and usually will not strike
if they're aware of your presence. Avoid roaring into the
area with your big motor. Instead, cut off your outboard a
good distance away from the cover and use your electric
trolling motor to quietly move closer. Avoid bumping into
the cover with your boat.
Fish The Outside Of The Cover First.
Don't cast into the middle of a weedbed, logjam, etc. until
you have combed the outside edges first. If you hook a bass
in the middle of the cover and fight it out into open water,
it will usually spook fish using the outer edges. Instead,
work the outside of the cover first, then work your way
gradually toward the middle.
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Target Isolated Cover.
A lone brushpile at the end of a point or a single stump two
or three cast lengths from hundreds of other similar stumps
often holds the biggest bass in the area.
Target Juncture Areas.
These are places where two or more pieces of visible cover
come together. Here are some examples: 1. Where the end of
a submerged tree meets open water. 2. Where two logs criss-
cross on the bottom. 3. Where a major limb shoots off from
the trunk of a submerged tree. 4. Where the corner of a boat
dock meets a shallow weedbed or open water. 5. Where a weed-
line meets open water. 6. Where the bottom or bank condition
changes gravel turns to mud, fist size rock turns to head
size rock, etc.
Target The Edges Of Visible Cover For Active Bass.
In nature, all predators gravitate to the edges of their
habitat zones when hunting. Just as a lion will prowl the
edge where a grassy plain meets a water hole, a bass will
prowl a weedline or the edge of a stumprow. Bass relating
to edges are highly catchable fish. Work the outer edges
first with spinnerbaits, crankbaits, topwaters and other
fast moving lures for active biters.
Target Deeper Inside The Cover For Inactive Fish.
Bass show a marked propensity for holding tight to stumps or
rocks, or burying in brushpiles or weedbeds, when inactive.
Use slow moving saturation lures such as jigs, soft plastic
crawfish and plastic worms for inactive bass.
Target Overhead Cover.
When not actively feeding, bass may show a marked preference
for overhead cover, including hydrilla or milfoil mats,
lilypads, water hyacinths, pond scum, even debris such as
logs or leaves that gathers in slack water pockets and the
back ends of tributaries. They feel a strong sense of
security beneath overhead cover and may often be approached
very closely without spooking. Flip or pitch to this cover
using the jigs or soft plastics.
Accuracy Counts.
It used to be fairly easy to pull a bass out of visible
cover with a sloppy cast, but not in today's high pressured
world of bass fishing. All too often, if the cast isn't
right on the money, the fish won't strike. Cast beyond your
target so your lure is up to speed or at the proper depth
when it reaches the spot where the bass is most likely to
be holding. Many anglers rely on pitching when working
visible cover; this is a highly accurate presentation that
works in all water conditions and facilitates a silent lure
entry.
Learn To Dissect Cover.
Don't think of a stump as a stump, think of it as a short,
squat treetrunk with a broad, relatively flat top and a
system of roots at the bottom. Sometimes merely casting to
the stump isn't enough, if the bass are holding tight to
the root system, they may not bite unless your lure hits
this specific target area.
Contact Cover.
Pro anglers always try to bump their lures into the cover
they're fishing. This gets them close to the bass and imparts
an erratic action to the bait as it careens off the object,
often triggering a reaction strike.
Throw Bass A Change Up.
Pressured bass learn not to bite lures they see repeatedly.
If you see several anglers in the area you're fishing work-
ing visible cover with spinnerbaits, try fishing the same
areas with a different lure that works the same depth zone,
such as a shallow running crankbait.
Pick The Best Times.
When fishing flowering surface plants such as hyacinths and
water lilies, you'll often have your best luck from midmorn-
ing until mid-afternoon, this is when the plants' flowers
open and attract insects, which in turn attract bass. On
other types of cover, bass often move to the outer edges in
lowlight conditions and will be more catchable there early
or late in the day. During midday, they'll probably be hold-
ing tight to or buried in the cover.
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