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What bait should I throw when there is low oxygen?
When fishing in waters with low oxygen levels, it's important to choose baits that can effectively target bass that may be more lethargic due to the less favorable conditions. In such scenarios, finesse techniques often prove to be successful. Here are a few bait recommendations based on the provided video context and general bass fishing knowledge:
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Drop Shot Rig with Finesse Worms: As mentioned in the "9 Lures for Tough Winter Bass Fishing" video, using a drop shot rig with a four-inch hand-poured finesse worm can be deadly. These baits have minimal movement and can be worked very slowly, which is ideal when bass are not as active due to lower oxygen levels.
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Hair Jigs: These can be effective as they mimic dying or dead baitfish that would naturally fall through the water column, as described in the same video. A heavier hair jig can quickly punch through schools of baitfish to reach lethargic bass waiting below.
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Soft Plastic Baits for Punching: In the "Cool Baits For Hot Weather | Bass Fishing" video, it's suggested to use a Texas-rigged slender bait like a Senko or a Rage Bug with a heavy weight to punch through matted vegetation. This technique allows you to reach bass that are hiding beneath canopies where the water might be cooler and have slightly higher oxygen levels.
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Topwater Lures: In situations where you're fishing around vegetation that produces oxygen during the day, such as in the "PET BASS ATTACK TOPWATER FISHING LURES!!" video, using topwater lures like frogs or poppers can be effective, especially in the early morning when oxygen levels may be at their highest.
Remember that when fishing in low oxygen conditions, it's often about finding areas where oxygen might be slightly higher, such as near aquatic vegetation or inflows like waterfalls, and using baits that can be presented in a manner that matches the reduced activity level of the bass. If you're fishing in a specific body of water and have more details about the conditions or the bass behavior, feel free to share, and I can tailor the bait recommendations even further.
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Cool Baits For Hot Weather | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → oxygen. It creates hiding places for the baitfish
to go. Insects and invertebrates are there, which is what the baitfish feed on. And there's
a whole ecosystem within those vast expanses of vegetation, particularly if it mats over on
the top and you got this matted vegetation. Those can be hotspots because underneath, even
though the water temp on your boat will say it's close to 90 degrees. Underneath that canopy, it
could be 5, 10 degrees cooler. And the cooler the water is, the more dissolved oxygen it can
hold. So, there's a whole lot of activity going on underneath those canopies. So, fish those.
There's two ways to do it. One is on top using like a frog, a Hollow Body Frog, just skittering
across the top. A spoon will do that too. Or you can punch it. Punching means you use a Texas rig
bait, typically a slender bait. I like to use Senkos because they're really just a slender
bait. But like a Rage Bug works really well. And a heavier weight, like a half ounce to
an ounce and a half, depending on how thick that canopy is. But you throw it up in the air
and let it land on the canopy and literally, it'll go nose first and punch through the
canopy and the fish will be underneath there. Couple things about that. Now, sometimes as soon
as it punches through, whack, you'll get hit. So, you got to set the hook right away. You got
to use stout equipment, man. You're talking heavy,
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Best Baits For Summer Bass Fishing! (Shallow And Deep) by TacticalBassin → and oxygen in the water you know these fish need to feel comfortable they need to breathe so that do that dissolved oxygen level in the water you want it as high as possible grass does that grass filters that water it cleans that water it through that photosynthesis process it puts oxygen in the water so if you can find Lively again there's that word Lively looking grass real green healthy looking grass grass that has fish swimming through it or bluegill you can visibly see into the water and see if that has life or not but I'm looking for that grass especially when I go into the backs of pockets and I can see basically the bottom right you can see those grass patches you can see Fish coming in and out um and then on the surface same thing I'm looking for uh maybe I'm fishing a mat and I'm looking for blow ups right you'll see us a Shad jump in or you'll see a bluegill get popped by a bass those are all things to really key in on when you're fishing shallow next thing that I look for is water clarity usually if I'm fishing shallow fairly dingy water so I'm looking over here and I can see a bass about a one pound bass just cruising about six inches below the surface right so that tells me hello there's bass here right may not be big
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PET BASS ATTACK TOPWATER FISHING LURES!! by BamaBass → this waterfall is going to help out a lot because it helps generate a lot more oxygen but in the summertime you see we have all these lush green lilies and plants and they're really good for a pond because they produce oxygen during the daytime but at night they consume oxygen so first thing in the morning is going to be whenever you have your lowest dissolved oxygen in the water so I'm gonna get a test kit and test out our oxygen levels in the pond and we may have to come up with a solution to shade a big portion of the pond throughout the heat of the day but first let's start with a live feed so there's a couple things I want you to pay attention to in these clips and the first thing is how bass react to other bass so in this clip as soon as the first bass which is clawed strikes that golden shiner bonnie is triggered to come up and feed at the same time and I feel like bass kind of relate to humans in the same sense that we may be sitting in a room not really that hungry but if somebody walks in and they're eating a slice of pizza all of a sudden we get a little bit hungry and I think that bass are definitely like that and that's why you'll see a lot of school band activity with large mouths so I
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Top 5 Baits For August Bass Fishing! by TacticalBassin → fish are tired of it right they've had all summer to have to deal with that hot water temp uh you know now you start getting that lower dissolved oxygen you get less oxygen in the water and uh you need to be fishing cover grass if you're up shallow you know rock if you're out deep you need to be fishing structure and if you're fishing shallow like that's that heavy vegetation that provides those fish the best areas to ambush from to feed up to feed up in and really to get that oxygen you know that grass really filters that water and puts a lot of oxygen back in that water so as those water temps climb throughout the summer those fish get more and more lethargic and and less and less oxygen in the water so you want to be you know really mindful of that and pick your times you fish you know low light conditions early in the morning low light in the evening can be great because those those cooler water temps cooler air temps but midday it's really going to congregate those fish and we'll talk about some of the highland reservoir stuff maybe fishing some bluff walls some shade lines here in a bit but let's talk about your traditional frog fishing heavy vegetation you're going to be throwing this stuff in the thickest grass you know that could be your grass mats your cheese
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9 Lures for Tough Winter Bass Fishing | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → mimicking, in this case, either a goby or
say a sculpin and they stay on the bottom. Sculpins don't have air bladders, so they
don't lift up off the bottom. So, keep that on the bottom, they'll look
natural. Or you can use a hair jig. If you find those baitfish and you can see
where they intersect with the structure. Say baitfish are holding 20 feet of water,
you can find a nice tapering point and that's where they're at. Bass will sit up underneath them and wait
for those dying and dead baitfish falling through and they'll engulf them. So, take your hair jig and drop it down through
that school and sometimes you can catch a lot of fish. Works really well with balls of perch. Happens in the wintertime. They really bunch up in tight schools and
you can just drop it down through that school of perch if you do it fast enough. I use a little bit heavier jig because the
perch like to eat these things too. Punch it down through that school and when
you reach those bass, it won't reach the bottom. So, a hair jig can be really good. The next type of baits I like to use are finesse
baits. Primarily, drop shot and split shot rigs. I'm using four-inch hand-poured finesse worms,
that can be deadly during the wintertime. They don't have a lot of movement, they're
very subtle. You can move them real slowly, crawl them
on the bottom with a split shot or just barely
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Building a 5 Acre Pond! (Filling it with Water Part 6) by BamaBass → that especially with oxygen when water comes from 150 feet below the earth's surface it has low oxygen so i went out and got a dissolved oxygen test kit so that's one of the things we're going to be doing is measuring the oxygen levels in the water gonna be time for a little chemistry class but one of the things you can do if you do have low oxygen there's different type of aerators and diffusers that can put that oxygen back in the water we may need to do that we got the fish coming in in a couple weeks so hopefully this test is going to tell us if we need something like that all right i got my little helper here she's going to do a water test with me i'll compare it yeah you will i'll scoop some water out for you now it says the most critical part of any dissolved oxygen test is sampling and so it says exposure to the high oxygen content of air will cause a sample to approach saturation dipping and pouring operations should be performed with as little agitation as possible so you're right set that down with you someone caught place the enfield tip first into the sample cup all right sir you want to do that okay then it says snap the tip and people will feel leaving a bubble for mixing all right there he goes that was pretty cool now
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