Bass Fishing Tip of the Week 10/27/07: Bass Lure Selection, the Key to a Successful Fishing Trip

Bass fishing can be very challenging, but knowing the right lure to use in a given situation is the key to a successful fishing trip.

Here's some suggestions to get you started:

1- Shallow reeds/cattails- Pitch or flip a worm using 1/8 ounce weight to pockets and into clumps. Cast Colorado/willow leaf spinnerbait 1/4-3/8 ounce keying on casting past points and reeling into them.

2- Deeper reeds/cattails- Cast a worm (Texas rig) using 1/4 ounce weight along edge and in 2-3 feet from edge. Cast rattling crankbait keying on points in 1/4 ounce model.

3- Shallow maiden cane/Kissimmee grass- Cast outside edge of grass line with 1/8 ounce worm. Try hard jerkbait along outside edge using twitch pause retrieve.

4- Hydrilla/Coontail 5-10 ft- Use a soft jerkbait no weight into pockets with a jerk/pause retrieve. Rattletrap on the edges and vary the retrieve. Topwater early morning such as devils horse/boy howdy with twitch/pause motion. Flip 1/2 ounce weight with craw/worm through heavy clumps.

5- Submerged hydrilla,peppergrass, weeds 5-10 ft- Diving crankbait reeled steady. Texas rigged worm 1/4-3/8 ounce weight.

6- Dropoffs/deep timber line- Cast crankbait reeled in steady trying to bump bottom or timber. Carolina rigged worm thrown to edge and worked with side motion very slowly.

Follow these tip and you'll be doing more catching with less fishing!

Sincerely,

The Largemouth Herald