Thursday, March 17, 2011

Bait

Bass- The bait I usually use for bass is a 1/16- 1/4 oz. weighted jighead and some 4 " plastic baits. In the darker water, Try a brightly colored jighead with a medium bright worm, that is like magic.For the 7-12' waters, i pull to my tubes. A 1/8 oz. tube jig with a Bass pro shops brand salted light brown tube. On that, try to bottom bounce or just a steady rhythmic jerk-and-pull for a couple decent fish.

Kokanee(land-locked Chinook)-  1-2This one's a long set-up, try a spoon chain with gold spoons, that are about 3-4" long. Behind that should be a  2' long leader with three hooks; one setup is a maggot, three corns, and 1-2 garlic marshmallows, or one with one hook of each bait.

                                                                                                     - I hope this helps catch fish

Monday, November 15, 2010

Boat vs. shore

On the shore, you are kind-of disabled to the rest of the lake or river. Although on the shore you can relax more because you don't have to worry about where the boat is and the navigation. You can just kick back and wait for a fish to hit. On the other hand, on a boat there is more area to fish, all around the boat, whether you drop the bait or get a far-off cast, there's still a lot of room. Although there's the navigation problem, lots of people have depth/fish finders. Some people don't like all of the depth finders and new rods and reels, and that's perfectly fine.

Right rod for right fish

Well, you probably don't want to catch a salmon on a bass rod so here are some tips. The first thing I always look at is the line ratings then, the sensitivity. After that I go to the line section of the store and pick a nice line, don't get that cheap line that only 2.99 I usually turn to Maxima line. A nice rate of line for bass is 8-10 lbs.test, mainly because you'll get a lot of snags on rocks or weeds. Although the rod sensitivity should be medium, that's because when your fishing off the bottom it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between a bite and a snag. Tackle is really easy topic to explain, mostly all I use is jigs with some artificial bait. Good colors are semi-dark with lighter fleck. Or I will turn to my other bass rod with suffix line and some Rapalas of varying sizes and colors.