How Do You Catch A Big Bass?

Catching bass often requires throwing a lure or live bait near or into cover. Because of this, you’ll need to select lures that are easily fished in cover. Thankfully, there is no single right way to catch largemouth bass. Because they’re aggressive, they’ll often strike at lures even if they’re not actively feeding.

How do you catch a giant bass?

Size Up. The one thing that’s obvious is that you need to use larger lures to catch bigger bass. The best way to catch large fish is by using a big fat jig and dragging it, or a crankbait will do the trick too. The reason you need to use bigger lures is because big ones are lazy.

What colors do bass see best?

Bass apparently do see color. Their vision is strongest in the areas of medium-red to green. It fails rapidly moving into the blues and purples, as it does towards the far reds. If our picture of bass color vision is accurate, then color is meaningful to bass in some cases but not others.

What is the best way to catch a bass?

Bass like to ambush wounded prey, so a beat-up worm is perfect to use, especially in shallow water. In shallow cover—wood, stumps, clumps of grass—I like to use a spinner bait with a red or pink head, and a crank bait with red hooks. The red makes the fish think the bait’s injured, and they’ll bite at it.

What is the best bait for big bass?

What is the best bait for largemouth bass? In terms of live bait, fish (like shiners, minnows, or shad) and crawfish work very well since these are what bass usually eat. Because largemouth bass are carnivorous, the best artificial baits tend to be those that mimic their prey in some way.

What bait has caught the biggest bass?

4 Big Baits That Catch Big Bass, And How To Use Them

1. Big Bait Swimbaits. The original “big bait” – swimbaits have become such a diverse category that it’s hard to lump them all into one.
2. Big Bait Glide Baits.
3. Big Bait Spoons.
4. Big Bait Bucktails.

What are bass attracted to?

In response to a positive smell, bass generally will hold onto a worm emanating a positive scent for a longer time. This gives you an advantage of being able to get a good hook set and catching the fish. Three scents that appear to be positive scents are salt, anise, and garlic.

How far can a bass see?

Lateral Monocular Vision of Bass
The lens of a bass’ eye extends beyond the plane of the pupil giving the bass an exceptionally wide lateral field of view. Vision to its sides is monocular (sees with one eye) and farsighted providing at most a viewing distance no more than 50 feet in clear water.

Can bass see in the dark?

Largemouth bass have excellent night vision. The fish’s eyes have much denser sets of light-gathering rods than do human eyes. It would seem that nature has equipped bass properly to feed at night as well as during the day. Do not think that because you can’t see at night that the bass can’t either.

What time is the best time to catch bass?

In general, the best time of day to fish for bass is either early morning or later in the evening (dawn or dusk), because bass tend to bite in low light environments where they are adapted to hunt and feed. This also means you can have some luck catching bass in the middle of a rainy day when clouds cover up the sun.

Are bass good to eat?

Bass are some of the most delicious freshwater gamefish in North America. Be it largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, or the highly prized black sea bass, they are in demand. People can’t seem to get enough of the tender texture and delicious white meat. The thing about bass is they don’t all taste the same.

What is the best time of day to go bass fishing?

Without question, the best time of day to fish for bass is at night. Bass are known to feed more heavily at night than during any other time of day. Not only is night the best time to fish for bass due to bass being more active, there are often fewer anglers and less commotion on the waterways during the evening hours.

What depth do bass swim at?

While productive depths during the early summer are dependent on the lake, I like 6 to 12 feet of water. During the height of summer, bass may move as deep as 15 or 20 feet, especially in clear water. Fishing crankbaits along weed edges is a proven summertime tactic for big largemouths.

What bass eats most?

Young bass consume zooplankton, tiny minnows, insects, and tadpoles. Larger bass start to focus more on fish and crayfish. Large bass consume a very meat-rich diet of bluegills, shiners, suckers, yellow perch, shad, frogs, crayfish, ducklings, snakes, and mice. Many adults will even eat other bass they encounter.

How do you find big bass in a pond?

Look for bass-holding structure like down trees, stumps, boulders, weeds, lily pads, and pipes. These fishing spots are keys to finding good bass in a pond. If you find any of these structures isolated away from all other structure, these spots need to be fished. You can be sure they will hold fish.

Do Big bass stay deep?

Myth 7: Big bass stay in deep water during the summer.
However, that’s not universal. On some waters, like many tidal rivers, most prime habitat is shallow, and the constant flow keeps the water oxygenated. There are also many other reasons for bass to stay shallow, especially after their fry have hatched.

Are bigger bass in deeper water?

Try fishing water that’s a little deeper than you normally fish. Certainly this doesn’t mean you can’t catch a 12-pound bass in a foot of water, but most of the larger bass I’ve caught over the years have come from mid- to deeper water.

Does garlic attract bass?

Garlic scent and anise oil are virtually non-existent to the bass you’re trying to catch, and ‘bass are not the salt lovers we are.

What color attracts fish?

Overall, green light attracts the most fish. Green has a high lumen output of 130 per LED alongside a 520 nm wavelength. Shrimp and insects have both of these wavelengths in their color vision alongside green light receptors around 530 um.

What color do fish like the most?

When looking broadly at all the larval species studied, black is the most commonly preferred, followed by no preference for color, and then blue. Blue and white were more preferred by adult fish, but many species also had no preference.

What color worms do bass like?

The best colors for worms are natural colors: green pumpkin, watermelon, junebug, black and blue. With these colors you will be able to catch bass year round in any body of water that holds bass.