Fishing a bass spinnerbait, which are usually just called a spinnerbait, is a great way to catch bass with and is proved time and time again to be “The Bass Bait” because it just catches so many of them. They make bass go wild because of the blade-flashing, vibration-emitting, and skirt-flowing appeal to this lure. They are arguably the best lure for year round bass fishing. They are great in weeds because of their weedless design. The placement of the hook and the blades are responsible for keeping weeds off of this lure.

When should I fish this lure? It is especially affective in the spring for shallow bass in weeds, but if you adapt to some different retrieves, styles, and locations throughout the year, you can consistently catch bass on a spinnerbait. First let’s look at the different styles of bass spinnerbaits. There are two main styles, single-spins (single bladed) and tandem-spins (double bladed). The double bladed obviously has more flash and vibration to it for more active fish. There are also three different types of blades: Colorado blade, willow-leaf blades, and Indiana blades.

-Colorado blades are round, for more water resistance at slow speeds.

-Willow leaf blades are oval shaped and thus have less water resistance for higher speeds.

-Indiana blades are a mix of the two for in-between conditions.

OK, now let’s look at the different ways to retrieve a spinnerbait.

-Bulging a spinnerbait is fishing it almost on the surface so the blade just “bulges” the surface. When the fish are active, fish it fast, lowering your rod a bit if you have to. If the fish are not active, then raise your rod high and reel slower.

-Slow rolling a spinnerbait is affective when the fish are not particularly active. This retrieve is especially affective when bumping logs, weeds, and other objects while reeling slowly.

-Helicoptering a bass spinnerbait is a great retrieve when the fish are active or inactive, but particularly when they’re hanging around vertical structure. It is simply reeling up vertically and letting it drop, repeating the process.

By: Nicholas Cudzilo
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With the warmer temperatures that will soon blanket the northern states brings forth some excellent early spring bass fishing opportunities. Often in the early spring you can load your boat with bass if you know where to find the fish and what lures to fish once you locate them. There are several techniques that you can employ to catch these lethargic fish in the early spring months just after the ice disappears from your favorite lake.

One of the first things you must do is locate fish in the spring is to locate the warmest water in the area of a lake that you are fishing. One of the easiest ways to determine this is simply by looking up and seeing where the sun is hitting the banks or use your temperature gage to determine where the warmest water is. There are several locations that bass seem to gather in the early spring months including rocky banks, bluffs, flats, and main and secondary points.

Steep banks such as rocky bluffs will hold heat better than any other type of structure and is easily fished. Fish will suspend off of these rocky bluffs or hold tight against the rocks. There are several techniques you can use to fish these locations, but the best technique seems to be is to fish suspending jerk baits, spoonbills, and crankbaits. To fish these suspending lures use a jerk, jerk, pause technique or a sweep then pause technique. I have found that the jerk, jerk, pause technique works better on the days where the sun is out and the water temperature is warming and the sweep then pause technique works the best when the weather is less than favorable. Also try pausing your bait for longer time periods often these fish will sit and watch a suspending lure for a long time period before deciding to strike. Your pause could be as long a 30 seconds or a short as a 2 seconds depending on how aggressive the fish are. There are two main ways to position your boat when fishing deep water bluffs, you can position your boat straight out from the bluff then cast in to the bank or parallel the bank casting along the bluff. If the fish are hugging the bank then paralleling the bank seems to work the best.

Large flats with wood is also a excellent place to find fish in the early months of spring since the wooded flats will hold heat and flats attract baitfish in the spring. The best flats are ones that receive the suns light during the afternoon hours. Fishing flats in the spring can be fantastic if the fish move up to feed and they can easily be caught with jerk baits, spinnerbaits, and soft plastic jerk baits. The fish that can be found on the flats are feeding on baitfish actively, and will often hit a faster moving bait. When fishing a spinnerbait on the flats make sure to bump every piece of structure that you can. This will often trigger a reaction strike from a bass that is lying on log, stump, or rock. When fishing a jerk bait on a flat use the jerk, jerk, pause technique to imitate a injured baitfish.

Main Points and Secondary Points are also excellent places to find bass in the early spring months. Fish will move to these locations to feed on baitfish that is attracted to the points. Fish generally suspend off these locations and can be caught with suspending jerk baits and spinnerbaits. Points with some type of structure such as a tree, stumps, chunk rock, or brush piles are excellent spots to load your boat with bass in the spring. Fishing can be fast and furious on points in spring due to baitfish randomly moving to the point which triggers the bass to feed all at once. If you hit a point that is holding bass you can easily catch tournament winning bag very quickly.

In conclusion, fishing in the early spring can be very rewarding and also can be very difficult to locate feeding fish. In the early spring months cold and warm fronts keep the barometer moving pretty regularly and can make fishing tough to say the least. However if you manage to get out on the lake when there is a steady warm front and use the techniques mentioned above you are sure to have a excellent day on the water.

By: David Alan
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TROUT - The fisherman who catches fish will, if he is on a trout brook, pay as much attention to the unlikely looking places, as he will to the inviting pools, on the theory that any fool has enough sense to fish in water that looks good, whereas he would pass by that uninviting little hole as a waste of time. But the uninviting little holes are the ones that often yield the catch, especially in any brook which is commonly termed "fished out."

Don't slur over that part of a brook which winds through the meadow, and whose banks are bare of shade - the other fellow didn't stop there.

When you are on a mountain brook don't take anybody's word for it that there are no trout above the falls - find out for yourself. They may not have run the rapids going up, that's true, but a wood duck or a snipe might have carried some fish spawn above the falls on his feet.

In lake fishing, it is more of "an open field and no favor," and yet the old rule of "persistence and common sense" wins out in the long run against "faint heart and poor judgment."

SALMON - After the ice goes out troll back and forth off the mouths of the brooks which feed the lake, because there this lordly fish will be feeding on the tinker smelts and other small fry, which are going and coming up and down the brooks on their spawning tours.

In June and July the salmon is in deeper water and farther off shore - use a little lead. In August he is down deep and you are lucky indeed if you get one a month in surface trolling. Instead of this anchor in 50, 75, or 100 feet of water and plug deep for him with a hardy, live bait, which the water pressure won't kill. Have a long anchor line and the gentle wind will give you considerable fishing latitude.

In September go back to trolling and keep off shore in 10 or 15 feet of water; also don't forget to troll back and forth across the brook mouths, because now the salmon is pluming himself for his spawning tour up stream again and is following the shore line until he finds the brook.

BLACK BASS - Troll for them just after the ice moves in the coves or in the vicinity of log booms, which bring them wood worms and other feed. Early in June, you will find them getting ready to go to housekeeping in the rocky bottom shallows along the shore, and now is the time for the fly. Don't neglect the sandy coves either, because year after year the same bass spawn there. Often they are big fellows and much lighter in color than their rock bottom brethren. The larger bass along all shores make their spawning beds in deeper water and the smaller ones farther in shore. Cast accordingly.

By: Liza Othman
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When you set out on your next big bass fishing adventure you may want to take some time to study the body of water you are fishing and then look at the sun to see the best location for your quest. This article will look at the best places to find the big one.

Big Bass Can Be Found In the Shade

You will tend to find that bigger bass are in some of the darkest places within a piece of structure. Most bass anglers look at a piece of wood and think they have found a good spot for bass. Although, this may be true it is not as important to find the wood as it is to understand where the bass will be located on that piece of wood. Smaller bass are usually more aggressive and tend to be in several locations on a piece of wood, but the big ones are lying on the darkest shaded side. They will often bury themselves in a think brush pile and wait for hours for prey to swim by.

Look For Mud Lines

If you are looking over the water you will notice that many times you can see a division where the clear water separates form muddy water. This dividing line can often be a good place to look for bigger bass. You can find these types of situation when a stream is coming into a body of water. Just off from the stream you will see the line. The big bass will hold just out of the muddy water to get fresher elements.

The Really Big Ones Are Deep or Not

You have just as much luck catching a big bass in 2 feet of water as you do 25 feet or deeper. You can find very dark spot in only a couple feet of water. Find a stump and fish the darkest side. You can make a cast to the lighter side, but you should always make two or three casts to the darkest side first. Pitching bait into the wrong side could mess up the spot and keep a bass from attacking when you finally do find the right side. If this happens; give the spot a couple hours and then try again.

The key to good bass fishing is to always think like the fish. They want o be hidden. Big bass get big by being smart. Try a few of these tips and see if the bigger ones start coming your way.

By: Tom Turner
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Every fisherman who has ever thrown his bait into the Gulf of Mexico likes to fish for Pompano. They're the best tasting fish in the gulf, bar none. They're also fairly easy to catch from June until the middle of December. Winter and spring months are only fair because they are scattered and generally smaller than the one's caught in the summer and fall. The Pompano were running up and down the Gulf of Mexico this fine Fourth of July weekend. This is a fish that truly loves warmer water, with their preferred water temperature being between 82 and 98 degrees Fahrenheit.

Walking along the beach just after first light with the smell of the ocean and the spray from the surf leaving the taste of salt on your lips is an absolutely wonderful way to start the day. The sun, just peeking through the mist, will soon burn away any lingering wisps of fog remaining on the beach. Seabirds fighting over remnants of a mysterious sea object that has washed ashore, reminds me to protect the shrimp I had stored in a bucket next to my beach chair. A solitary pelican has just crept within 15 yards of me and is staring at the bait bucket as though he can see inside. He must have heard the shrimp moving around.

This beautiful morning I was fishing off the beautiful sugar white sand of Mexico Beach, just east of Port St. Jo and just down the road from Panama City, Florida. One of the few areas that is not overly populated, either by local fishermen or by tourists, it was a surprise to find myself relatively alone. Looking up and down the beach you could only see an occasional beach walker searching the sand to see what secrets the sea had washed ashore on the early morning tide.

Pompano are not fish eaters so the first thing you have to do when fishing is to secure your bait. Besides the shrimp I had already bought, I had to have sand fleas. They're on any Pompano's menu and they're usually plentiful along most beaches. The easiest and cheapest way to obtain these them is to catch them yourself! They're found at the waters edge as it recedes back into the sea. As the water rushes back from the beach, you'll see small holes appear at the water's edge. Those holes are where a sand flea is burrowing. Immediately dig down and you'll find them.

For my sand flea hunting I simply use a sturdy bucket that I've drilled many holes in the bottom and sides. This allows the water to flush out of its container and leave the sand fleas on the bottom when I dig for them. There are several types of sand flea rakes you could buy, but making your own is more fun. I've even seen kids on the beach digging for them with a stiff toy beach bucket. Just use whatever is handy. After you catch a dozen or more, put them into your bait bucket with a little sand and water and you're ready to start fishing. You can always catch more fleas when you run out of the ones you've already caught.

Pompano run in schools. Where you find one, you will usually find many, so remember that when you're catching sand fleas. Pompano also eat shrimp with live ones being the better bait but dead ones will work if your bait shrimp is not alive.

I use a weight 5' rod and a light reel with 8 to 10 lb test line. I use this because I know that most pompano are between 1 pound and 3 ½ pounds. I also keep a 7' surf rod and surf reel with 15 lb test line in the other line holder just in case I hang a bigger fish.

The rig that has worked well for me starts with a barrel swivel on the end of my line. I'll then tie a 3' to 4' foot of 30 lb leader to the swivel. After that comes the two 8" lengths of leader on which I will tie 1/0 circle hooks. I'll tie those about 12" apart. After that, all that remains is tying a 2 ounce egg sinker to the bottom of the leader. Then all I have to so is bait my hooks and throw the rig as far out on the gulf as I can. That's usually about 30 to 40 yards.

There are other more sophisticated and expensive ways to catch both pompano and sand fleas, but I choose to keep it simple and as cheap as I can. Vacations are costly enough without spending a lot of money on bait and the fish you will catch with them. Most of us, if we add up the cost of a fishing trip and divide that into the amount of fish we catch, would be much better off going to a good restaurant. I figure that counting the gas for the trip to the beach, lodging, food, bait and a few souvenirs, each fish I caught that day cost me approximately $438.00 each.

By: Bob Alexander
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The term ultra light fishing may conjure up pictures of a fishing rod and reel that would compare with the snoopy setup that you have for your kids. I'm here to dispute that argument once and for all. Ultra Light fishing simply means using fishing gear that's smaller than you may be accustomed to. Actually, it's using equipment that's actually matched to what you're fishing for.

Lets take fishing line as an example. When is the last time a fish actually broke your line? That is, you reeled in your line after having a fish on and the line was broken from the fight of the fish. Obviously I'm not referring to the line braking from abrasion. I'm referring to the line breaking from the weight of the fish. I've been fishing twenty years, and ultralight fishing for eighteen of those years. I can count on one hand the number of times a fish has broken my line, without the help of abrasive surfaces. Yet many people use fishing line that's double the weight of the fish they are attempting to catch. Do you realize that four pound test fishing line will withstand four pounds of weight without breaking? Yet very few people use fishing line as light as four pound test. They consider four pound test to be ultralight.

For the most part, your fishing line should match the size of your fishing rod and reel. My point is that if you use a medium action rod and reel, spooled with six pound test monofilament, and you're fishing for nice walleye and smallmouth bass, this setup could be considered ultra light. And this is not at all a bad thing. In fact, it's a good thing. Using a rod, reel, and line that match each other will result is you getting more bites and catching more fish. Not only will it result in you catching more fish, but it adds to the sporty as well. Catching a four pound smallmouth on the setup mentioned above is much more fun than catching the same smallmouth on a rod a reel setup that's heavier (and most anglers use) isn't nearly as much fun. I speak from experience on that one.

I'll give you a real life example of how line diameter specifically relates to our subject. I was out fishing a couple of years ago with gang hooks tied on six pound test monofilament. I used heavier line because I thought I had a big fish located. In any case I fished for three hours without a bite. This was highly unusual for the area I fish in Montana, but I figured that the moon or weather must have had something to do with it. I was about to call it a day, when I got snagged and lost my last pre tied gang hook. As I was walking away, I remembered that I normally use gang hooks tied on four pound test monofilament. I of course had spare line and hooks with me, so I quickly tied a gang hook on four pound test, baited it with a worm (just as I had been all day), and cast out my line. Half way through my drift, FISH ON. I fished for another thirty minutes and caught four more nice trout. The only difference was the size of the line that my gang hooks were tied on, that was it.

The bottom line is that ultralight fishing isn't necessarily what you may be thinking. If you've never matched your fishing gear to what you're fishing for, give it a shot. You won't be disappointed. And never forget what Don Marquis said about fishing, "Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes."

By: Trevor Kugler
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