Old School Bass Fishing Secrets

Old School Bass Fishing Secrets
Showing posts with label pro bass fishing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pro bass fishing. Show all posts

Saturday, 27 June 2009

Top bass fishing home page

Great Resources Make a Great Bass Fishing Home Page

Every bass fisherman dreams of becoming the next bassmaster elite. In fact it could be said that a bassmaster elite is made not born. The secret to becoming the next Roland Martin is arming yourself not only with a great tackle box filled with goodies but also having a solid understanding of all the top bass fishing techniques. The best way to get started in the transformation from bass fisherman wannabe to bassmaster elite is through the use of a great bass fishing home page. Here are some of the requirements that you should consider for your bass fishing home page resource.

1. Complete Breakdown of Bass Habitat. It makes no sense for a web page to show you how to rig a Texas worm and simply instruct you to chuck that puppy in the weeds, if you do not understand when and where to use such a rig. This is something that any great bass fishing home page should strive to accomplish that is proper education about the environment in which a bass lives. You'll never be a bassmaster elite if you simply do not understand the world in which the bass lives.

2. Choice and Selection. It's great that websites narrow down and specializes, but for a great bass fishing home page to shine it needs to stand on the cutting edge of bass fishing techniques. Every year something new changes within the bass fishing world and so in order to stay competitive for that next tourney you need a great resource, and this is where a great bass fishing home page comes into play.

3. Bass Fishing home page should be about bass not catching bass fisherman. Let's be honest, most of what hangs on the walls of your favorite tackle shop, are designed more for catching bass fisherman then they are for catching bass. Again this is where a solid understanding of your prey (larry the lunker) helps you to weed out what will catch him and not what is going to catch your wallet. The bass fishing industry is huge, but learn more about larry the lunker and you'll save yourself buying a ton of crap that just won't catch bass.

To learn more about how great resources should help you catch more bass and how learning about bass habitat is the first step in becoming a bassmaster elite check out http://www.squidoo.com/basshabitat Here we go over in detail not only all about larry the lunker and his habitat, but also all the bass fishing techniques you need for each situation.

Thursday, 25 June 2009

Top Bass Fishing Tips - part 4

Top Bass Fishing Tips - Part Four - Dead Sticking For More Bass

This is the Fourth installment in our five part series called Top Bass Fishing Tips. If you missed the first three then you will not want to to miss this week's installment.

In this fourth article I want to look at the fine art of dead sticking for more bass. Dead sticking for bass is simply casting out your bait or lure, and letting it sit out there until you can't take it anymore. It tests your patience, but that is exactly the purpose behind this bass fishing technique. It should come as no surprise that a bass can out wait you. People by nature are impatient and even after casting out a power grub or any other bait or lure and letting it just sit out there, "dead sticking" in the water for a few minutes most people will be going insane. But this is the point behind this bass fishing technique.

Let me share with you a quick story to illustrate this technique. I was fishing up north in the weeds searching for those campfire story sized largemouth bass. I was flipping, chucking spinner baits, walking the dog etc. basically every trick I had that my tackle box could deliver and was catching more of my impatience then anything else. When all of a sudden, I noticed that there were bass in the area but they were following my baits and lures so slow that I hadn't noticed them before. Ok what to do? I knew that these bass were inactive, very inactive, most likely these bass already had their guts full, so their eyes were bigger then their stomachs but they still felt the need to follow baits and lures they just didn't have the motivation to nail them.

So I tried the dead sticking bass fishing technique. I let my power frogs sit out there in the weed clumps for what turned into my brain into nothing short of insanity. You would be surprised at how long an inactive fully fed bass will stare at your baits. Believe me when I say longer then you can handle not touching the urge to reel it in. Then finally, I started catching bass. Sure I didn't boat dozens but this bass fishing technique works.

It's best to try this when you know the bass are there, and non of the other tricks and tactics are working. When this is the case you have nothing to loose but time to try dead sticking. I bet you would be surprised at the results. My personal experience has shown that plastic baits and lures work best with this bass fishing technique so don't be afraid when you find very inactive bass, to go with this bass fishing technique. It's better to catch a few bass then nothing but frustration. Inactive bass fishing requires you to slow your presentations down, and if they are super inactive perhaps because their bellies are full, you'll have to slow it down even more and this is when dead sticking to catch more bass comes into play.

Stay tuned for the next article that will continue our series on top bass fishing tips and I hope you follow along in our series to pick up even more great bass fishing techniques.

To learn more bass fishing tips that can help you catch more bass, head on over to Understanding Bass Habitat Tips . A great resource for a more in-depth look at bass fishing.