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Hello Anglers,
Water clarity plays a major role in choosing lures. When the
water is clear use a Spinnerbait with willowleaf blades. If
the water is stained use lipless crankbaits, jigs, or soft
plastics.
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Enjoy a week of fishing!
Brock
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Hot Weather Bass Lures
By Extreme Bass Lures
Imagine, it's the height of summer on your favorite bass
lake, and you and your buddy are discussing strategies for
the day. Fishing conditions are not favorable: the bass have
been heavily pressured for months, the pleasure boat traffic
is beyond belief, and the heat and humidity are forcing many
anglers off the water well before noon.
Conventional wisdom states that you should downsize your
baits, select lures only in natural hues and fish only early
and late in the day. But even the individuals who are doing
things "right" aren't catching many bass. If this scenario
sounds familiar, maybe it's time to break away from the
norm and try something unusual. Here are five lures that may
produce big time during the dog days on your favorite body
of water.
1. RATTLING, DEEP DIVING CRANKBAITS: Large rattling crank-
baits, both in medium and deep running models, have been
standard artificials for a number of years. These baits
excel when the water is still cold and stained from winter
run off and/or seasonal cold fronts. The large profiles of
these baits and the considerable water displacement that
these lures create aid bass in tracking them. The rattle
chambers inside these crankbaits also give fish something
to home in on. But these lures are also great fish finders
during warm water period.
A few things to remember: First, if nearly everyone on the
lake is using "match the hatch" colors, then give the fish a
different color to look over. Second, although rattling
crankbaits are primarily spring lures, they can draw bass
during summer months. In the deep water environments where
many, if not most, summer bass dwell, noise making chambers
can cause a lure to give forth that little extra enticement,
which will cause largemouths to strike. Some anglers claim
that the noise is similar to that which a crawfish emits,
while others maintain that no creature in nature sound like
a rattling crankbait chamber.
Whichever one is correct, rattles often make a lure more
effective. Third, cast your crankbait well beyond its target,
sweep your rod downward to cause the bait to plunge and
endeavor to make the lure "bite" deep into the bottom. The
more puffs of sand, silt, and debris that the lure displaces
and the longer you can make the lure accomplish this, the
better your chances are that a bass will find the artificial
irresistible.
2. BIG BLADED SPINNERBAITS: Large spinnerbaits are definite-
ly not lures designed to catch large numbers of bass during
the summer or any other time. They are, however, exception-
ally versatile baits that can elicit strikes under a variety
of conditions. An oversized willowleaf blade will sometimes
intimidate the smaller bass yet give the larger bass some-
thing worth their while to chase. Besides the willowleaf,
other blade configurations will perform well during the
summer. A single Colorado blade excels at probing deep water
cover of all kinds.
This lure "helicopters" down quickly and gives off consider-
able vibration in deep water. A two bladed spinnerbait (with
the Colorado and Indiana configurations) is a great choice
when the slow rolling technique is required. Many spinner-
baits on the market today offer minnow like heads and eyes,
and these features add a nice, realistic touch. Some
companies have even added rattles, further increasing a
spinnerbait's appeal to bass.
Rattles are an especially nice feature if a summer shower
has caused a lake to become stained. Then, bass can use
their lateral lines to home in on the vibrations of the
blades and the sound of the rattles. In short, big bladed
spinnerbaits are outstanding lures for jumbo summer bass.
3. RABBLE ROUSING BUZZBAITS: Nearly every angler who visits
a lake during the warm weather period plans to arrive either
early in the morning or late in the evening. The majority of
those fishermen will have a topwater lure tied on to at least
one of their rods, and many, if not most, of those individuals
will employ a buzzbait sometime while they are fishing during
low light conditions. Using a buzzbait during those two
periods is sound game plan and most definitely will result
in some quality bass.
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But how many anglers tie on big, bad, rabble rousing buzz-
baits during the heat of the day? First, for a buzzbait to
be effective on a sultry afternoon, it must be retrieved
through shade. Your casts should be designed so that the
buzzer would churn by wood that is lying in the shade.
Second, the presence of current is almost as important as
shade. In every lake, current is present, even though it
may be barely discernible. The bass, though, can easily
detect the flow's direction, and they will almost always
face into it.
Cast your buzzbaits "upstream". Finally, don't pay attention
to your buzzbait as you retrieve it. After the lure lands
and you note that the cast was accurate, look away, talk
with a friend, hum to yourself or do whatever. Occupy your-
self so that you do not prematurely set the hook when a bass
rolls on a buzzbait. The No.1 reason we miss bass that strike
is that we jerk this lure away from the fish. Like oversized
spinnerbaits, large, wake producing buzzbaits are not good
lures for catching small bass.
4. JIGGING SPOONS: Jigging spoons, along with jig and pigs,
are perhaps the premier lures for enticing wintertime bass.
Even during this season, however, few anglers use a spoon.
During the warmwater period, even fewer anglers will toss
this artificial. That's a major mistake. No other lure is
as good as a spoon at probing the deep water cover where
summer bass dwell, and no other lure excels at descending
so deep, so quickly, as this one. A big, flashing spoon is
also great at creating an enticing visual image for a bass.
Humps, main channel dropoffs, submerged roadbeds and the
ends of points are all wonderful places to employ this
artifical.
Why are spoons so rarely used? For many anglers, they are
one of the most difficult baits, if not the most difficult,
to use correctly. A spoon is a heavy piece of metal that is,
in effect, a finesse bait. This seems like a contradiction,
but it neatly sums up the difficulty of properly presenting
a spoon. For instance, once you locate bass holding in deep
water, you should have little difficulty dropping this lure
in among the fish. The challenge comes with maintaining a
tight line, deducing what the rate of ascent and descent the
fish prefer you vertically jig the spoon and detecting a
strike when it does occur.
Mess up anywhere in this process, and you simply will not
catch bass. To develop the finesse required to work a jig-
ging spoon requires many hours spent on the water. You can
read about how to develop that finesse or have a buddy
explain the technique to you, but on the water, time is
really the only way to master vertical jigging. If you do
learn how to work this artifical, then you will have learned
to hook deep water bass that few others will be able to
catch.
5. HARD PLASTIC JERKBAITS: Just as jigging spoons are typic-
ally thought of as winter baits, hard plastic jerkbaits are
usually considered spring lures. Deep running jerkbaits that
suspend are especial favorites of anglers out to catch pre-
sawn bass. Once again, though, summertime bass anglers need
to ignore the conventional wisdom. The logic for using jerk-
baits during the summer is inescapable. Shad, minnows and
other baitfish are more numerous at this time of year than
at any other. Many of these fish have grown to several
inches now and are just the right size for hungry bass.
An old bass fishing maxim states that if you find the bait-
fish, you will have found the bass. This is especially true
in late summer, and the realistic size and shape of a jerk-
bait is ideal for taking advantage of that fact. For example,
balls or pods of minnows and shad often locate along the
main channel, in shady coves, around boathouses and where a
creek channel enter the main lake. All of these locales are
ideal places to toss a deep running jerkbait. One of the
best ways to work a jerkbait is to heave it well past the
target area.
With a sudden downward sweep of your rod (much like was
discussed earlier with crankbaits), a jerkbait will motor
toward the bottom. As this lure slowly rises, jiggle the rod
tip to impart additional action. Allow the bait to rise for
several seconds and then sweep it downward again. A deep
diving jerkbait can also be made to run along the surface.
Hold your rod high, and slow down the retrieve. Large jerk-
baits, those measuring 4 inches or better, will produce a
bass bewitching wake as they skim across the surface.
Jerkbaits also perform well when schooling bass come on the
scene. Hard plastic stickbaits with rattle chambers are
especially good then. These fish are aggressively looking
for food, and the noise produced by the rattle serves to
"call" the bass. Although most strikes will occur while this
lure is on the surface, deep running jerkbaits can also draw
strikes from bass hovering beneath the surface melee. A good
tactic is to run this bait along the surface for a few yards
and then retrieve it rapidly downward to where bigger bass
may be holding. If you are catching surface schoolies that
are running 1 to 2 pounds, a deep running jerkbait may be
able to dredge up bass that go 3 or more pounds.
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An Irish priest loved to fly fish, it was an obsession of
his. So far this year the weather had been so bad that he
hadn't had a chance to get his beloved wadders on and his
favorite flies out of their box.
Strangly though, every Sunday the weather had been good, but
of course Sunday is the day he has to go to work.
The weather forcast was good again for the coming Sunday so
he called a fellow priest claiming to have lost his voice and
be in bed with the flu. He asked him to take over his sermon.
The fly fishing priest drove fifty miles to a river near the
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