How to Bass Fish : Back to Basics
Most, if not all of the so-called ‘insider’ secrets, tips and stories of big hauls of Bass, all revolve, around a very simple basic rule – understanding the fish, (their life-cycles, feeding preferences, habits and patterns). Also important are heeding your surroundings, your equipment (tools), having the know how and basics under your belt and finally optimizing opportunity.
One key to bass fishing is ‘predictable behavior’. The habits, patterns, life cycles, and the natural rhythm that is the life and nature of the bass are important. This means that Bass exist within a natural reality. Understanding it better, you will increase your chances of success.
Seeking protective cover, foraging amongst rocks, stumps, weeds, at times on the prowl hunting for prey, other times just ‘lunching’ around casually, all seem to be part of The Bass feeding rituals and repertoire. Taking advantage and considering this will benefit you greatly.
Understanding other factors like water clarity, time of day, subdued sunlight, water displacement and vibration sensing, noise sensitivity, all add to your “fish cunning” ensuring that you will increase your odds of hooking your next big one.
How the bass senses and prefers color and shade in the moment, can also help anglers increase their effectiveness. The choice and type of lure, colors and movement, bait etc. can all contribute a great deal to your attempts to catch fish.
Where the fish are… everyone will have an answer, or at least an opinion. Nevertheless, sometimes it is as simple as understanding the habitat and those that live and thrive in it. For example: the temperature of the water and available oxygen, dictate moving patterns and disbursement of fish species. Feeding habits and preferences are distinct and can be used to great advantage when trying to tempt a crafty lunker to take your bait. Familiarity with the Bass’ favorite places to hang around is critical to success: Bottoms, stumps, trees , logs, weeds and plants, contours, structures, travel-routes, creeks, shallows/deeper passages, coves, channels, bluffs, banks and shorelines – all can be repetitive clues on habitual, predictable behavior of the bass
Self-confidence, aptitude and the right attitude when fishing for Bass are crucial. In this battle to outwit your opponent, you will need every tool and trick at your disposal to make a successful catch. Never get discouraged, feel beaten or worse quit because the yield has been slim to none at all – those days happen to every angler. Most of the ‘experts’ came about their knowledge through reading, studying habits of their catch, in very similar fashion than what you are undertaking. Get to know your fishy friends a little better, study them until you know instinctively where they will be and where their favorite spots are. Knowing and going where the fish are becomes demystified and more exciting. It is now more than a hunch or random chance – it is a planned encounter where the watery predator, hunter par excellence, becomes the hunted! Nature beats to its own drum, you have to discover and enjoy the rhythm you are so intricately part of.
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