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What areas hold bass tight to cover in winter?
When it comes to bass fishing techniques, it's important to start with a few tactics or lures that you feel comfortable with and have had success using. In the video, the angler suggests starting with fast-moving lures like crankbaits, spinnerbaits, and topwaters. These lures are great for covering a lot of water and can be effective in attracting bass.
Another effective technique mentioned in the video is using jerkbaits. These are deep-diving suspended lures that can be productive during the winter months. The key with jerkbaits is to use more subtle jerks and longer pauses to mimic a dying baitfish. Adding a little extra weight to the lure can help achieve the desired sinking action.
Finesse tactics like drop shot and split shot rigs are also mentioned as effective techniques. These involve using smaller baits like three-inch tubes or finesse worms and can be great for targeting bass in more challenging conditions.
In terms of general tips, maintaining focus is crucial. Pay attention to what your lure is doing, the type of structure it's on, and whether there are any weeds or obstacles on it. This attention to detail can help you determine the best presentation and increase your chances of catching bass.
Persistence is another key factor in bass fishing. Don't give up on an area or pattern too quickly. Instead, thoroughly fish an area where you have confidence in and focus on your casting accuracy. Slow down and pick apart every piece of cover where bass could be lurking.
Lastly, it's important to have a positive attitude and maintain confidence in your abilities. Confidence is everything in bass fishing, so believe in yourself and your techniques. Remember to do some research and homework before heading out on the water to increase your chances of success.
Please let me know if you need more specific information or if there are any other techniques or terms you would like me to explain.
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How to Catch Bass: Top Fishing Tips and Mistakes | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → techniques and tactics, it's easy to get overwhelmed
and there's this rush sometimes to try to learn it all. It's hard to do it that way. What I suggest is you learn three to five
tactics or lures that you, until you get comfortable with and you've caught enough fish, you feel
really good with it. Then start to expand your knowledge. Start to build upon that success. For me it was fast moving lures. I learned crankbaits and spinnerbaits and
top waters, buzz baits, that stuff, I learned that first before I moved onto things such
as worms and jigs and drop shot and things like that. Just take it easy. Don't try to learn it all. You got plenty of time. Get some of the basics down. Get confidence with that and then build your
experience on top of that and you're going to become a much better angler. The next tip I can give you is maintain focus
or don't lose focus. Okay? One of the things that's really hard to do
is be focused throughout the entire day, especially when the bite isn't on. And that is what I mean by maintaining focus
is knowing what your lure is doing all the time. Pay attention to what kind of structure it's
on. If it's crawling across the bottom? Is it soft bottom? Is it hard bottom? Is it a little bit of pebbles or is it bigger
rocks? Get to the point where you can tell rather
there's a little weed on it or not.
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7 Winter Bass Fishing Tips to Catch Stubborn Bass | How To | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → So keep it on the bottom, crawl it nice and
slow to mimic the prey that the bass are keying on. Another type of baits to use are jerkbaits. Deep diving suspended jerkbaits can be really
productive this time of year, those that get down to 10 feet or more and just sit there
and suspend. It's a great bait to use. You don't pull on it as hard as you normally
do during the warmer months. So it's more subtle jerks, don't move the
bait as far, and the pauses are a lot longer, three to five minutes. I mean, long, long pauses, barely move it. This is why it needs suspending because you
don't want it to float back up to the top. Sometimes what I'll do is I'll take like some
golfer's tape or something like that or take some solder wire, wrap it around the hook
shanks to give it a little bit more weight, not a ton, but just enough to make it slowly
barely sink. Because again, there's long pauses in between
so you don't need it to fall rapidly. But that'll give it that kind of dying fish
action again, and you give it those little twitches and it looks just like a dying baitfish. So those jerkbaits can be really, really productive. And then finally, I like to use finesse tactics
using drop shot and split shot rigs. I'll throw things like three-inch tubes, maybe
three-inch minnow type baits, or four-inch finesse worms, those hand poured finesse worms
on these rigs.
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Bass Fishing Tips: 9 Basics All Anglers Need To Know | Bass Fishing Tutorial by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → some time doing some research and doing your
homework before you got out on the water. All right. And lastly, the one basic that you really
got to get down for bass fishing is to be persistent. Don't give up on an area or pattern too quickly. Sometimes the bite is tough and it's best
to thoroughly fish an area in which you have confidence in, rather than running all over
the lake like a chicken with its head cut off. If the bite is slow then resist the urge to
move around and change lures frequently. Instead, slow down, pick apart every piece
of cover where the bass could be lurking, and really focus on your casting accuracy. Just methodically progress through every holding
spot where a bass might be. And above all, keep a positive attitude and
assume your next cast is going to result in a bite. More often than you think, you're going to
get rewarded with some key bites and maybe even a bass of a lifetime. So, guys, the key thing is to just be positive. That is a lure in your brain that you cannot
buy. And confidence is everything in bass fishing. So, just maintain that positive attitude and
you can end up catching more fish. Well, I hope those tips help. For more tips and tricks like these, visit
BassResource.com.
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Pitching - The Essentials | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → Every lake or river I go to, when I get there,
I like to try to find the heaviest cover it has to offer. Why? That's where the big bass live. And what techniques work the best to get them
out of that cover, is techniques where you're using a big old rod and reel where you've
got the leverage. Those techniques are flipping and pitching. Let me show you the pitching technique. All you're doing is getting lower, about even
with the reel, and grab the back of your bait, and just an underhand swing of the rod, and
that propels the bait out there. Keeps it low to the water, where you can skip
it up underneath boat docks, or you skip it underneath a willow trees. You can get it to those hard to get places
where you can't cast to. Makes it a great, great technique. I like it best when the water's a little bit
clearer, where I don't have to worry about scaring them by getting too close to flip. Isolated targets, like stumps, boat docks,
things like that, I have a tendency to do more of the pitching than the actual flipping. And it's just like the flip. When it hits the water, you let it go straight
to the bottom on a slack line. Hits bottom, feel for the bite. If there's nothing there, jig it up and down
a couple times. Go ahead and reel it in. After you've done it a while, you don't even
need to grab the bait.
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5 New Bass Fishing Techniques You Need To Try | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → very subtle approach. It's a natural-looking
bait. And the bass will come up and annihilate this thing. I mean, it's funny how aggressive the
bite is. That kind of blows me away. So you're just barely moving along and then bam, they wanna
rip that rod right outta your hand. But you can also very...you can lift the rod up and lift it
down as you reel or pause it, that kind of thing. The other way is you can do it off the
bottom just like you would a jig. You know, you lift up and let it drop, lift up, let it drop
as you reel it in and pauses in between. And it kind of looks like a bait fish foraging on the
bottom. But that technique tends to work really well as well. So, couple of different ways you can
fish this. It is an open hook, but as you can see, you can get the hooks with the wire guard on it.
So, you can throw this in heavier cover. You're not limited to just open space. So, throwing
around docks, throwing around weedy cover. As long as the cover's not too heavy, it'll come right
through just fine. It's very much like a jig. So, don't be afraid to throw this in heavier
cover. It's a presentation. It's a look that a lot of bass aren't accustomed to seeing, and
that's why it works so well. So, give it a go,
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Summer Bass Fishing Techniques and Tips | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → You're not gonna have guaranteed success that
you've found a hump and start fishing and start catching fish. Fish those depths and find it when you catch
a fish you want to note what depth they were at and where they were on that that piece
of structure. There might be something there like a rock,
like a log, maybe a patch of grass, something that's holding them and that's the sweet spot,
that's the spot on the spot, and sometimes you can load up, fish might be stacked up
on that one spot. So pay close attention to where you were,
what position with your boat, where you made a cast and lock onto that to see if there's
more fish sitting on that spot, you may find a honey hole there. Now sometimes when I'm fishing a brand new
lake, and I don't know anything about it, I don't know if it's got weeds in it or if
it doesn't or what's going on, I have no idea what the pattern is, I even don't know how
deep the lake is, is just go fish a point. Fish a long tapering point that goes down
into deep water. Typically, I just launch the boat and the
first point I come to, I start fishing it. What I'll do is I'll start off deep and work
my way in shallow. I don't want to bring that boat right up on
top of the fish. To fish that shallow water first, I might
spook away all the fish that are positioned on that point.
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