| When Bass Don't React Like They | | | | finicky, try downsizing. If you're using a |
| Should.Everyone has their favorite fishing | | | | spinnerbait then use a smaller more realistic |
| lure for certain conditons. You just know the | | | | spinnerbait. Try one with smaller blades. |
| lure will work when you find the same | | | | Throw it out, let it sink then pop it off the |
| conditions in the water where it caught bass | | | | bottom or try a high speed retrieve. If that |
| before. But, what if it don't? What if you | | | | doesn't work try a higher speed retrieve.Bass |
| use that lure and cast it over and over again | | | | are in shallow or clear water, you see them |
| and you don't catch fish?Did you know bass | | | | but can't catch them with your usual worm or |
| can't read? Yep, it true, regardless of what | | | | lure that you used to catch them when they |
| you read in all the books and magazines, that | | | | were in pre-spawn, even though you're casting |
| doesn't mean it is going to work today in the | | | | the lure in front of them.Again, try one of |
| same conditions. Bass never read that book | | | | your old time favorites like a Rapala, Devil |
| and they are creatures of habit and | | | | Horse or any bait that retrieves at a level |
| instinct.Let's say it's an early summer | | | | plane. Try using a lighter outfit, maybe even |
| morning and you see ripples from baitfish on | | | | a spinning outfit with flourocarbon line for |
| the surface. You throw that buzzbait and | | | | farther casting distance. Now throw the bait |
| never even get a hit. So, you slow it down | | | | out, let the rings go away and barely twitch |
| and see bass following it but still no hit. | | | | the lure, it will move in one direction. Then |
| Then you slow it down some more and get a few | | | | twitch it again,it will move in the opposite |
| short strikes. What do you do?Well, if it was | | | | direction. Now here is the good part and most |
| me, I would slow it down even more and add a | | | | important part. Let the rings disappear from |
| trailer hook or two or even switch to another | | | | the last light twitch and barely move the |
| topwater lure that I could fish even slower. | | | | lure so you can hardly see it |
| The hula popper comes to mind as does a | | | | moving.........this is when I get most of my |
| jitterbug, a frog or Rapala.You see bass | | | | strikes.Let me say this, if you're not |
| again busting shad on the surface but by the | | | | catching bass with your regular conventional |
| time you get to where they are all action has | | | | methods, you don't need to do any of the |
| cease. You throw crankbaits, spinnerbaits and | | | | above. You have one other option, you could |
| even buzzbaits to no avail. What do you | | | | always teach the bass to read so they know |
| do?More than likely the bass are suspended | | | | how they are supposed to act in certain |
| now in a little deeper water. Use a lure that | | | | conditions.Good fishing to you!Charles E. |
| resembles a shad and use heavier line to have | | | | White has fished for almost 50 years for bass |
| more drag on the lure as it goes down. Let | | | | from California to Florida. In his lifetime, |
| the lure sink and watch it for any movement | | | | it is estimated that he has caught over 6,000 |
| at all. Just a twitch or any movement in the | | | | bass. His biggest bass is a 12 pound 14 ounce |
| line at all could be a strike, set the hook. | | | | that hangs on his wall in his office. |
| As we all know, suspended bass are more picky | | | | |
| and strike lighter.You are fishing deep water | | | | His tips and techniques have helped many |
| and you know bass are there. You try | | | | people who never fished for bass before |
| everything you have and don't catch a fish. | | | | become successful anglers. |
| What do you do?The fish are likely more | | | | |