Bass Fishing Tips - Best Way to Locate Bass (2/2)

Most fishermen spend the day running up and down the lake quickly fishing one spot after another and at days end have very little to show for their efforts except for empty $3.00 a gallon gas tanks. I ran to my favorite bank and set there all day using zero gallons of gas. It was a relaxing day of fishing and we usually catch quite a few bass by day's end. Sometimes when the fish quit hitting the artificial lures I switch to nightcrawlers fished weightless on a small weedless hook. Just cast it out and let it slowly sink to the bottom, once it gets to the bottom I let it sit for a couple of minutes and wiggle, after a minute or so I slowly reel it back to the boat. It should take about five seconds to turn the reel handle one time. Sometimes you will catch more fish while you are SLOWLY reeling the worm back to the boat, this is why you should always reel the live worm back slow and steady without any extra rod action.

Lets say we have caught several bass in the thirty foot range, and we see more down there on our sonar but they just refuse to bite. They are probably responding to heavy boat traffic and fishing pressure. Here in Southern California we have only a few small ( two to four thousand acres ) lakes for many thousands of pleasure boaters, jet skiers, and of course fishermen.

As far as fishermen go, bass soon learn to associate trolling motor noise with danger. Sometimes I just tie my boat to a tree in a brushy cove and watch bass go about their business without trying to catch them, you can learn a lot from observation of your quarry, sometimes much more than catching them.