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Why do you seem so focused on bass?
My focus on bass fishing stems from a deep appreciation for the sport and the unique challenges it presents. Bass fishing requires a blend of strategy, skill, and knowledge of the fish's behavior, which makes it an endlessly fascinating pursuit for anglers at all levels.
Bass, particularly largemouth and smallmouth, are known for their fighting spirit and the excitement they bring once hooked. They inhabit a variety of water bodies, from small ponds to large reservoirs, and this diversity of habitats requires different techniques and approaches, which keeps the sport dynamic and engaging.
Moreover, bass fishing has a strong community with competitive tournaments ranging from local club events to professional circuits like the Bassmaster Elite Series and FLW Tour. This competitive aspect pushes anglers to continually improve their skills and knowledge.
In the context of the videos you've mentioned, there's an emphasis on understanding bass behavior through scientific studies, which can significantly improve an angler's success. Additionally, the videos highlight the importance of fishing to one's strengths, whether that's finesse fishing with wacky rigs or power fishing with crankbaits, and the personal growth and connection to nature that comes with the sport.
Bass fishing isn't just about the catch; it's about the entire experience, from analyzing patterns to adapting to various conditions. It's a sport that teaches patience, perseverance, and respect for the aquatic environment, which is why it has captured my focus and passion.
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Budget Bassin’…THIS Will Allow You To OUTFISH The Dudes Who Are LOADED by Intuitive Angling With Randy Blaukat → advice i could give you guys with bait selection is keep it simple figure out what your strengths are and fish your strengths if you because another thing about tournament fishing guys if you don't fish your strengths you're never going to win tournaments you're never going to you know consistently place high so you sort of have to feel or figure out what your strengths are in bass fishing and just look for those fish you know if you're if you're a an offshore angler and you like to fish football head jigs you know spend your time looking for that type of water if you like to shallow crank and flip you know downsize your tackle and look for that type of water if you're a finesse fisherman and like the wacky rigs there's always that water you can fish there so don't feel like you have to master every single technique out there and have every bit of tackle out there uh you know to do good you know simplify your approach to fishing with your equipment and everything next thing i'll talk about is fish and location one of the biggest things that i used to do years ago was i was i'd always try to run the farthest i could get away from the takeoff this was back 30 years ago and uh in doing so you're always spending more gas money i mean i i didn't think anything of running 100 miles one way
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This Bass STUDY Forced Me To FISH Differently by BassFishingHQ → when it comes to Bass Fishing something that I absolutely love is learning more and more about bass the creature itself and I love looking at different scientific literature and different studies that have been done on whether that's bass Behavior or even bass tracking and over the years I feel like it's really helped me to become a better anger and there are four different studies where I feel like I have learned a lot and has changed the way I go about fishing and in today's video I want to talk to you about those four four different studies so stay tuned it's going to be a good one now the first study was actually done in Florida by a local biologist that I know here in Ohio during his master's program now the study that they did was actually to see how bass learn there was this 10 acre Lake there in Florida that was on private property it had never been fished before and so what they did is several different Anglers were allowed a certain time slot and during that time slot they had to Fig one of two different lures now the first lure was a silver or Chrome Rattle Trap style bait and the other one was just a good old sinko now the researchers actually spent 36 hours a week fishing this particular Lake and they did this for 6 weeks in a row now during the first week or two the
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The Greatest Thing About Bass Fishing by Intuitive Angling With Randy Blaukat → negative with that I'm trying to affect change for the positive and I try to bring attention to things that um a lot of people don't want to talk about and in doing so you know it can be perceived as negative by some people but I just wanted to assure you that man I love the sport I do I love it you know it's been a part of my life since I was I can remember and I just want what's the best for it so um if those videos come out what you think is negative just remember I'm trying to to do something to point the sport in a in a positive direction to some type of change there okay given that let's talk about what is awesome about Vass fish and what I really really love about it and is the best thing about it first of all um one of the one of the um the biggest overlooked aspects of bass fishing um and especially if you fish on any competitive level it doesn't matter what if it's a club tournament or if it's the Bassmaster Elite Series or whatever there's not another sport out there that makes you um it forces you to learn so much about yourself because when you're fishing depending upon you know the type of fishing you're doing you're going to learn more about yourself as far as from an emotional standpoint than any other
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My STORY - How I Got Started Fishing! by Fishing with Nordbye → next few years this has always been a goal in line and it's getting closer every day you cannot imagine how tough it is the fish at the top professional level you only have roughly 200 anglers in each of those tournaments out of the whole nation to get to fish professionally full-time it takes time and effort to compete against these top anglers that makes it so much more meaningful when you place well in the tournament I go down a week before in preparation for the tournament usually I pre fish the lake in different areas trying to find out where the bass are if they're shallow if they're deep if they're feeding on shad or crawdads and just the best way to catch them is you got to figure that out or you're not going to do well in the upcoming tournament my 2017 tournament season is starting to come to an end I'll be gearing up for the FLW coach the series of 2018 and the lakes next year will be Table Rock Kentucky Lake and Lake in those arcs again so I'm excited for that God has given me this passion for bass fishing and I will continue to chase it
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Why These Are The 2 Best Things About Bass Fishing by Intuitive Angling With Randy Blaukat → you know catching all those you know big smallmouth and largemouth that live up in those northern interior lakes so if you guys fish up north yeah i hope to see you on that seminar you can sign up for that at fishthemoment.com okay let's talk a little bit about what i think the two best things about bass fishing are because um you know obviously for somebody like myself to be in it as long as i have over 50 years or something i like about it or i wouldn't still be doing it but probably the the the two things that i love about fishing more than anything and i'm gonna explain a little bit is the connection to the real world that you have through it and how it teaches you more about yourself than anything else i can think about i'll explain a little bit about that first of all let's talk a little bit about the connection to the real world i mean mankind anymore in modern society we're so insulated from nature that we completely lost all of our abilities to to reconnect with nature if you put the average citizen you know out in the wilderness situation wilderness environment you know they couldn't last a week out there where our ancestors the native americans and the indigenous peoples they were you know masters of their environment and they could not only survive but they could survive in
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I Know Exactly Why You Are Not Catching Many Big Bass… by Intuitive Angling With Randy Blaukat → out what the big fish want you know the bait or whatever he was completely focused on catching big ones and he caught a lot of big ones and as a result I took that to the Bassmaster tournament circuit and the first 10 years that I fished Bassmaster I think I won daily big bass award something like seven or eight times so I learned a lot from Terry about what to focus on that here's the main thing the main problem a lot of people have when they're where why they don't consistently catch big ones is they're simply not fishing the techniques that produce big fish if you you can catch big ones on anything I mean I think that I think there's been some state record largemouth Connor crappie jigs before I'm not saying you can't catch a big one on anything but if you catch a big one on a certain lure category a lot of times it's just a random coincidence if you're going to consistently catch big fish you have to fish those lure categories that produce big ones and that is completely dependent upon the area that you're fishing the the type of waters the geographical location say for example if you're fishing Florida a lot of times a lot of the big ones down there come on you know flipping matted vegetation or you know occasionally you'll catch some big ones on top wires but flipping those thick mats
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