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Topwater Baits For Huge Bass
Posted by glock on Monday, November 28, 2005 (04:29:22) (2520 reads)
There are a lot of baits that take big largemouth bass, but to me, nothing is more fun than seeing a huge bass hit a topwater bait. The excitement that is produced when a big bass explodes on a buzzbait or a frog, is unmatched by any other technique. A lot of anglers don't believe that really big bass are taken on buzzbaits, spooks, frogs, and jerkbaits. Some of the largest bass we have caught have been on topwater baits, be it in the rivers or lakes, just about everywhere in the country. Some of the best baits and techniques described below will help you catch big bass on topwaters, and increase the excitement factor ten fold!
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Tiger Bass
Posted by BassHunter14 on Friday, June 10, 2005 (00:01:46) (6856 reads)
There's a new bass on the market. Its called a tiger bass wich is a hybrid between a Northern and a Florida strain bass. With the mixture of the two you get ten pound plus potential thats also very very agressive. So watch out for the new bad bass. Coming to a hatchery near you.Adam Snyder (BassHunter14)
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Big Female Spawning Smallies
Posted by BassHunter14 on Thursday, June 09, 2005 (00:37:49) (2529 reads)
I live on the banks of the columbia River and all i do is bass fish when ever spring comes around i get exited.All i can think about is Big female Spawning Smallies. What works good for me is a watermelon colored rattlesnake tube bait with a 1OT. ewg offset hook with a 1/4oz. bullet weight Texas rigged. It works wonders i caught a 7 1/2 pound smallie on six pound test it took me ten minutes to bring him in but it was the funnest ten minutes fishing iv'e ever had fishing. Adam Snyder (BassHunter14)
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Topwater Baits For Huge Bass
Posted by skguides on Monday, June 07, 2004 (14:02:13) (1744 reads)
Topwater Baits For Huge Bass
By Steve VonBrandt
There are a lot of baits that take big largemouth bass, but to me, nothing is more fun than seeing a huge bass hit a topwater bait. The excitement that is produced when a big bass explodes on a buzzbait or a frog, is unmatched by any other technique. A lot of anglers don't believe that really big bass are taken on buzzbaits, spooks, frogs, and jerkbaits. Some of the largest bass we have caught have been on topwater baits, be it in the rivers or lakes, just about everywhere in the country. Some of the best baits and techniques described below will help you catch big bass on topwaters, and increase the excitement factor ten fold!
NOISY TOPWATERS
Most of our fishing for largemouth bass is done in the Northeast; Delaware, Maryland, and New York in particular, but I have caught huge bass all over the country on noisy topwater baits. Noisy topwaters can produce some enormous explosions from big bass. It irritates them into striking, by provoking an aggressive and immediate killing response more than other lures. The key to catching big bass all over the country on topwaters is to match your tackle, bait, and presentations to different conditions. The reason I believe we catch so many big bass on topwater baits is because most people throw spinnerbaits, worms, and crankbaits. The bass learn to avoid these baits when they get larger. The topwater baits we throw haven't been used for years in some cases, and the bass aren't used to seeing them. Even in places where people throw topwaters such as poppers, they are more inclined to throw whatever topwaters they use only at certain times of the day, usually in the morning or in the late afternoon, or evening. We throw different noisy topwaters all day in different locations for some tremendous strikes.
Almost all the bass I have caught that are over 5 pounds, are loners, holding on a particular piece of structure in the lake. I won't say that you never see some large bass schooling up, but it is a rare occurrence. There is a theory that some bass in very big reservoirs in California, actually roam open water in large schools, never coming into the shallows at all. These are called limnecticly inclined bass, but it is still just a theory. Smallmouth bass are different though, they do school up in certain areas, and there can be many large fish all together at one time. I have had this happen all over, from New York to Missouri, but big largemouth's are generally alone. I use most topwater baits when the water temperature is 60 degrees or above, but I have caught bass on topwaters when the water temperature was in the high 50's. Whenever I see a stump, rock, or maybe a bush, further away from other structure, I throw a topwater right to it. The best way to provoke a reaction strike from a big largemouth is to cast the bait right to the cover, not beyond it. If you cast past the target, the bass will be alert before the bait gets there. You may have seen them boil or swirl when you do this instead of smashing it. They are tentative when you work the bait up to the cover, and then they just swirl at it, or miss. To provoke a big bass into exploding on the bait you must cast right to the cover!
Some of the best baits for this are the "Zara Spook", a "Creek Chub", or any good prop bait, a minnow bait, a popper, and a "Crazy Crawler". The "Zara Spook" is a proven bait all over the country for this. It is really effective on main lake structures like humps and points, and has always taken big smallmouth bass. I use a Rattling Zara Spook, and it really increases the effectiveness of the bait. The walk-the-dog style of the bait, along with the rattles, produces some giant bass. Big Smallmouth bass will come from a great distance to smash this bait. The prop bait is a noisy surface bait that has to be used just right or it will spook the bass. I always use it when a front is approaching, and on stained to muddy bodies of water. It is the ultimate reaction bait, and definitely needs to be cast right to the cover, whatever it may be.
The popper is one of my favorite baits to use in places that have a lot of grass or milfoil that is holding bass. I recently started using a popper by "Viva" lures, that was recommended to me by "Carolina Fish and Fur". It has produced some great largemouth bass in the last few years. It is called a "Bug Eye Popper". It doesn't really make as much noise as some of my other poppers, like the Pop-R, but it spits out all kinds of water. It is a fairly expensive bait, but I believe it has accounted for several big largemouth bass that I wouldn't have gotten on another bait.
The "Crazy Crawler" is a bait that is similar to the "Jitterbug". I use this and the buzzbait a lot at night. I also use a real big size Jitterbug that they use for Northerns or Muskies, they have never seen it here in the Northeast, and really smash it at night. The buzzbait also produces some really big bass for us here in Delaware when used at night. We have caught some bass in the 7 and 8 pound range on many occasions with a "Black Flash" buzzbait by "Blue Fox", and a "Terminator Ball Buster". This year I'm going to be trying a new buzzbait made by "ZAP" lures.
The floating Minnow is another good bait in post spawn, when big bass are around some shallow cover, but they aren't particularly aggressive yet. I use baits with rattles for this also. I've caught a lot of big bass on it in prespawn also. On really warm days early in the year, it produces well. I just cast it to the structure, let it sit, twitch it one time, and they usually just suck it in!
The other bait that a lot of anglers forget about is the "Bass Rat" by Southern Lures, and the "Tournament Frog" by Snag Proof. I insert rattles in these baits also, and they produce tremendous strikes through the pads and other vegetation in bodies of water from small ponds here in Delaware to bigger bodies of water like Lake Champlain in New York. I use a 7 foot, S-Glass St.Croix rod for them, with "Spiderline" Super Mono, in 17 pound test, or I use 28 pound test "Fusion". I fish the lighter baits with a spinning rod such as a G.Loomis, in 6 1/2 foot lengths, with 12 pound test "Excel" line. I use all the rods in a medium heavy to heavy action for these baits.
LOCATIONS"
Although most of our really big bass have come from shallow water, they were always in a place that was near deep water, where one or more grasses came together, and near the main creek channel. They always had some kind of deep water escape route nearby. I feel that in larger bodies of water the big bass spend much of their time in deeper water, and just move in out of the shallows as the opportunities arise, when hunting for food. As I mentioned previously, most anglers use these baits at sunrise or sunset, but I use them all times of the day. We won the Big Bass World Championship for Delaware in 1998, on a buzzbait, in the middle of the day, in bright sunlight! Big bass are always on the shady side of cover once the sun rises. They can be enticed into striking a buzzbait or other topwater, at all times of the day when presented properly. Bigger bass feed more frequently due to their body size, and when they do feed, they want a bigger meal if at all possible. They have to expend a great deal of energy to catch their prey, and want to make sure the size is sufficient to meet their needs. I grew up fishing small ponds and lakes here in the Northeast. This is a great place to learn how to catch big bass and practice the techniques you need to catch them in larger bodies of water. These small ponds and lakes have plenty of big fish left in them, you just have to present the right baits at the right time.
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BFL Potomac River Event 6/5/04
Posted by skguides on Sunday, June 06, 2004 (23:24:34) (1594 reads)
Well, let me start off this report by saying, that this was possibly the worst event I have ever fished in 35 years!
We arrived in Washington D.C., and checked into our room in Waldorf, Md, at 12:00 PM Friday, June the 4th, 2004. It was starting to rain pretty good at the time, and was windy and cold. After checking in we tried to cover the boat, in what could only be considered HEAVY downpours!
We arrived at the meeting at 4:00 PM, where 3 boaters who drove a long way were told that they couldn't fish because their co-anglers, who were guaranteed, didn't show up or even call, so they made the trip for nothing. After the meeting, and talking to our partners, we went back to the room for a few hours sleep before getting up at 3 am. It rained hard all night, and when we woke up, it was raining even harder, and the wind had picked up.
We left for Smallwood State Park, the launch area, and got in line behind 20 boats at 4:30 am, the gates opened at 5 AM. At 5 AM, there were 199 boats, waiting to launch into the roughest water I have ever been in on the Potomac. After launch time, I waited for my partner till well after light, and launch, since it took so long to get everyone in that he was sitting in line waiting to get to the ramp for more than an hour and a half. We launched late into what what looked like the Atlantic Ocean in a storm. The swells were so high, combined with the wind, and hard rain, that some boats could not even get on plane or run above an idle. One persons motor came off the back and sank into the Potomac in DC, and had to be towed in. My partners boat had so much of a hard time when we headed south that we considered coming back. Unfortunately, we didn't, and tried to make it to a creek 30 minutes south of Mattawoman. We went UNDER the water 3 times, and cracked the hull! The bilge pump couldn't even pump the water fast enough, and the smashing up and down was the most serious I had EVER BEEN IN! I put him on fish and helped him out since this was his first tournament as a boater, and we caught some bass that were short despite the weather, and 2 others that were 4 pounds, that he lost in the morning. When we limped back to Mattawoman at 1:00 PM, to spend the rest of the time there, until weigh in, we found my brother Kurt in Mattawoman, (where he wasn't supposed to be). He had 2 other spots where we were catching 15-20 pounds all during practice! We approached him, only to find out that our boat had at least $1,000.00 worth of damage, maybe more, and that he almost died, and couldn't make it to any of our spots. In the morning right after take off, our Nitro boat smashed down so hard that the foot control motor and the mount, actually ripped away from the fiberglass, and flew across the deck into his partners lap! Then several big swells came over the sides of the boat, and they were sitting in over a foot of water inside the boat! The water came up to his lap while sitting in the drivers seat, THAT DEEP! The electronics flashed pink and yellow lines across them a few times, and flashed, and never worked again. The boat continued to fill with water, and almost sank! It was lilting on one side, and getting deeper. He bailed by hand with his partner along with the bilge running, and after an hour got enough out to crawl back to the launch area, where he spent 2 hours trying to rig the trolling motor back on enough to fish nearby. He still managed to catch 3 bass that he weighed in right from around the pads near the launch that put him in 37th place. His partner even caught 2 nice ones that Kurt put him on.
All in all, it was a costly, dangerous, and miserable experience! I was hurt so badly that i am not sure I can even drive myself to the doctors Monday, I will need someone to drive me. It never stopped raining once, and got even harder on the way home. The temperature never got above 64 degrees in all of this. Several guys that had good boats, like 22 foot and above with 250's caught some decent fish as they were able to get to their spots without being killed, but unfortunately, we weren't one of them.
I am now going to try to have all the damage fixed on the boat, and then it will have to be sold, so we can buy a newer, bigger boat, as this will only happen again on water this big in the northeast.
Tight lines and good fishing Steve and Kurt vonBrandt S&K
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