| Bass is a term that applies to a wide variety of fish | | | | supply for many kinds of bass. Spinnerbaits look like a |
| from many different species. The equipment and | | | | safety pin with spinner blades on one end. Spinnerbait |
| techniques that work for some bass will not work or | | | | is great around rocks, logs, or other structures, and |
| all of them so you need to have a wide variety of | | | | these tend to be the best locations to cast for bass. |
| bass fishing gear in order to be sucessful. One of the | | | | Some bass fishermen prefer crankbait since it can be |
| most popular types of bass for fishing is largemouth | | | | fished in a variety of locations and depths and has an |
| bass. Largemouth bass are extremely aggressive and | | | | appearance like many small fish that the bass feed |
| will bite many types of baits and lures. You can use | | | | on. Many bass fishermen have used the oldschool |
| live bait such as worms, minnows, or streamers and | | | | method of a worm and a hook to great success for |
| poppers. Largemouth bass tend to like warmer | | | | years. Other live bait can be used as well, and artificial |
| waters and are best caught early in the morning. | | | | worms have achieved good results. |
| Smallmouth bass tend to live in lakes or rocky | | | | Since bass can be large and heavy you want to be |
| streams. This is where their favorite foods, such as | | | | sure your reel, line, and rod are up to the task but |
| crayfish, are easily found. Smallmouth bass will bite | | | | not overbuilt. Reels, lines, and rods that are too slight |
| live bait such as dragonfly larvae, crayfish, and | | | | can break and cause you to lose fish, but equipment |
| hellgrammites. Be careful using live crayfish because | | | | that is overbuilt can inhibit your technique and cause |
| many places have laws against having live crayfish | | | | you to catch fewer fish. Since largemouth bass are |
| while fishing. You can also use artificial bait, but you | | | | known to bite almost anything your success depends |
| should be sure to fish quietly and use tackle that | | | | as much on your ability to actually reel the fish in as it |
| stays on the surface. Be sure to cast towards rocky | | | | does on your ability to make the fish want to bite. |
| areas or logs, not in wide open water. | | | | The bass will do the biting for you, but they will not |
| Spinnerbait is great to have in your bass fishing gear | | | | want to come aboard without a fight. |