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How can I get more bites on pressured lakes with swimbaits?

When targeting bass with swimbaits in pressured lakes, it's crucial to adapt your approach to increase your chances of getting bites. Here are some effective techniques based on the video context provided:

Commitment to the Technique: As mentioned in the "Avoid This Common Swimbait Fishing Mistake" video by Fish the Moment, fishing with big swimbaits requires a mental shift. You should be prepared for fewer bites, but the ones you do get are likely to be quality fish. Stay patient and committed to the technique throughout the day.
Adjust to Conditions: In the same video, Randy starts on a main lake point with clear water and no wind, which are challenging conditions for swimbait fishing. He then moves to the James River with murkier water, which can be more effective for swimbaits under high-pressure and clear conditions. So, be willing to change locations based on water clarity and weather conditions.
Stealth and Distance: Brian Latimer in "Catch Heavily Pressured BASS | Improve Casting Distance" emphasizes the importance of stealth and casting distance. Longer casts can help present the bait to the bass without spooking them, which is crucial in pressured waters where bass are wary of anglers.
Target Features: The "How I Catch Bass With Big Swimbaits At Small Pressured Urban Ponds!" video by crazybassfisher highlights the importance of fishing around features such as waterfalls, rocks, docks, and pipes. These structures provide ambush points for bass, making them prime spots to present your swimbait.
Vary Your Retrieval: In pressured waters, bass may become accustomed to the action of commonly used swimbaits. As mentioned in the second "How I Catch Bass With Big Swimbaits At Small Pressured Urban Ponds!" video, changing up the retrieval speed and action can trigger bites from bass that have become wary of a consistent glide or swim pattern.
Downsize or Upsize: In "3 TRICKS That Catch 'Pressured' BASS" by BassFishingHQ, the suggestion is to think opposite of what's common. If everyone is using large swimbaits, try a smaller one, or vice versa. Also, consider changing the weight of your swimbait to alter its fall rate and movement in the water.
Use Less Popular Baits: As suggested in "The Best Ways To Fish Pressured Fish" by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource, sometimes using less popular baits like tube baits or grubs, which may not be as recognized by pressured bass, can yield better results.

Remember, each of these tips can be adjusted based on the specific conditions you encounter on the water. If you're not getting bites, don't hesitate to experiment with different techniques, locations, and swimbait presentations until you find what works best for the bass in your pressured lake.

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Avoid This Common Swimbait Fishing Mistake by Fish the Moment → there's no technique out there that takes more commitment than the big swim bait i may only get five bites all day so i need to make them count got them good one really good one you know fishing a big swim bait is different than any other lure category you're gonna fish you have to sort of shift your mentality to not expect to get a lot of bites this is about quality it's not about quantity there we go number five randy started his day on the main lake point on the lower end of the lake we were facing the worst possible conditions for fishing a big swimbait there was no wind no clouds and sunny skies this usually makes the fish very inactive and they're more likely to follow the swim bait back to the boat especially in clear water than actually eat it the water in the area where randy started had five to eight feet of water visibility and with no wind or clouds the fish would not commit to the big swim bait after fishing several more main lake points and pockets in the clear water section of the lake randy decided to make a long run to the james river where the water had a lot less water clarity in this area of the lake the water had one to three feet of visibility usually when you have bright bluebird skies no wind

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Catch Heavily Pressured BASS | Improve Casting Distance by Brian Latimer → but that's my offering take me to the key i don't know the rest of the world right here i'm fishing on a lake it's got a lot of pressure on it maybe it's a lot of like the fish are hard to catch because uh there's only a couple places to fish and everybody knows about them so one of the ways that you can bat heavily pressured lakes is is casting distance being a little stealthy your approach has got to be we've only got so many different baits so many different colors and to certain degrees there's times where that just doesn't matter so the way that we kind of combat heavily pressured water lakes like this is is the way that we use the same baits that everybody else is using and so when we talk about finesse a lot of times people forget about casting and making longer casts is a way of having a finesse approach but the nine million dollar question is how you throw like be glad i hear you how do you throw farther how do you make longer casts let me try to show you just a few different ways that that um that i try to cast further you guys fish ponds that's a situation where casting father makes a huge difference in a pond and even on lakes especially fishing tournaments sometimes i fish tournaments where it's over 200 boats

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How I Catch Bass With Big Swimbaits At Small Pressured Urban Ponds! by crazybassfisher → you really have to sit down and think about what you're doing how you're presenting the bait and when you're doing it and i think you're going to get a lot more bites on a pressured body of water like that now it's very specific times when i fish a pond like that lately though the ponds that i have fished they've had a couple features on them and features could mean anything from waterfalls rocks in the water docks um you know a pipe anything really that will let that fish sit in a very specific spot to ambush a prey and i've been fishing ponds like that there's not a lot but the ones that i have in my mind i can kind of go through before i go out in the morning like okay you know we just had a recent rain so all of the waterfall spots should be going and i've got like two of those picked out let's go and see if we can catch a fish or maybe it's like all right it's a certain time of the day there's gonna be shade here let's go fish these docks real quick so you start making kind of a milk run in your mind just throughout the conditions of the day and you fish those if you have pawns that have features take advantage of those because features just means you have a very specific spot

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3 TRICKS That Catch "Pressured" BASS by BassFishingHQ → of so something else you can do up size that weight instead of doing that 3 8 or half ounce actually go up to a three quarter or one ounce weight this is really going to kind of plummet very fast in front of these pressured bass and because of that they're actually just going to react to it they're not going to actually see it they're going to react to it and that as well can get you a lot more bites so anytime it comes down to lure choice one of the biggest things you can do is simply think of opposite sides of the spectrum think smaller think bigger think less weight think more weight that is really going to help you to get more bites in areas where there's just a ton of guys now speaking of that the second concept this is another one that i kind of developed actually not only in ohio but actually as i fished outside of the country this is something that i developed a lot and that is any time naturally i think to stop fishing maybe maybe i'm working up a creek and it gets really really shallow if i think to stop fishing and i want to turn the boat around those are the times when you actually need to just keep on going keep on going and seeing what is past that area because a lot of times when i think oh i need to

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How I Catch Bass With Big Swimbaits At Small Pressured Urban Ponds! by crazybassfisher → and those fish were fired up and they were you know slamming our baits left and right and it was a really fun time but the problem with throwing you know such massive baits like the depths 250 is it has a very specific glide to it right and it's that hard side to side side and once you fish a bait like that for i don't know we've probably fished it for like two years or so something like that those fish catch on because it's just such a small body of water right and you're constantly fishing this thing and you catch you know quite a few fish the fish are around it will wisen up and like dude our buddy got caught abducted by that thing before like there's something wrong with that bait and so slowly but surely after a bit of time we stopped getting bites on this and we'd get you know a few followers here and there and then after a while of just getting followers we just never saw fish chasing this thing ever really again so it's uh that's just how it goes i mean the pressure is just tripled on such a small body of water and you're fishing it you know two to three times a week it really does pound into those fish's minds or like that thing is fake especially when you have other guys going there and throwing the same exact thing

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The Best Ways To Fish Pressured Fish | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → But, anyway, lures like that, your tube baits, 3-inch grubs. People don't talk about grubs anymore, but I'm telling you, they work, especially in heavily pressured situations. So try those things out, and I guarantee you you're gonna have better results fishing public waters, especially those ponds that are in urban areas that get a lot of pressure. Hope that helps. For more tips and tricks like this, visit bassresource.com.

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