Chris

It kinda like this you have one shot to hit your cast right to make a fish bite. If you mess up and make a bad cast your success rate goes down and you may not get a second chance. If this happends then come back to that spot later in the day and take your time to make the right cast. Bass have good short term memory if you hook it and loose it but sometimes even if you miss a fish you can still catch it. You might need to change baits or directions or back off and give the fish time to settle down. I had a fish shake off a crankbait (hit it and spit it) and caught a fish out of the same spot later in the day even as soon as 15 minutes later. One side of the bass's brain remembers that someone was trying to catch it and the other side was off counting flowers. Believe it or not if you present a bait on the other side the fish will forget that it just struck your lure. If you keep pounding at a fish the fish will move and know something is up and may take awhile to get back into position to feed or get into an active mood. I hope this helps and I know someone is going to call me crazy but its the truth. If you stick the fish and fight it half way to your boat this rule does not apply you might catch it the next day (reaction fishing)or 3-4 days later. Also If you fish the same bait in the same areas sometimes the fish move or turn off the bait and you need to change baits or locations. Lets say I am fishing a Bandit crankbait and have been killing them on it for two days but each day I catch less fish than the day before. I may change crankbait styles and continue catching fish because fish might relate the sound of that bait as danger. I might change all together to a jig or spinnerbait. Most of the time fish just move locations and you need to move with them.

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Covering water is great if you are searching for fish or bites. If you don't know what the bass are doing or how they are positioned covering water is a good idea. When you figure out where the bass are and what they are doing and have narrowed down you pattern and lure section then its time to switch gears and fish the areas that you found fish the right way. Slow and methodical.

Ditto

I fish water like that 75% of the time. Usually I catch bigger fish out of muddy lakes. Sound is the key to catching fish under these conditions. Lures that make a steady noise like a buzzbait or spinnerbait chartreuse or black work great because the fish have to track the bait to eat it. Jigs that are black and chartreuse with a black and yellow pork work good(use a rattle), yellow crankbaits work good also(wide wobble). Just make sure you bump the cover as much as possible with your lures. Fish shallow don't worry about anything deep unless fish are busting shad. Also fish tight to cover.

I caught one in a night tournament on a topwater lure one time at lake Toho. I didn't have a flashlight and I reached down to grab it like a bass. From that day on I always bring my flashlight

I could list my whole box for this question. To narrow it down I would say use a drop bait like a senko or a soft jerkbait and let the bait look like something hurt and let it fall through the shad school to the bottom.

Holes in grass is little openings, gaps, or pockets that you can pitch your bait to and the bait will fall through the grass to the bottom. Usually its a place where the grass can't grow because of a rock or stump. Use a tube,tube,tube, or paddle tail worm with a 1/4 oz or 3/8 oz worm weight. Did I mention to use a tube? :

Add shad. You can weed out some of the smaller fish which is good and healthy for the population. What I would is figure out what is the average size of the mid sized fish. If you have a high population of 14" bass and the bigger fish are few then set it at 14" limit. If you have a high population of 12" fish and 14" fish are few set it at 12" limit. But I would set a slot limit. This would protect the larger fish from being fished out.

I used a Yum dinger yesterday to catch 20+ fish before a bass slung it off my hook. The senko I started to to use only took 3 bass to sling it off the hook. With alot of these baits the more mangled the bait gets the more action it has. I started off fishing it like a slug-go then after the action slowed down fished it wacky style. The yum dinger seemed to stay up out of the grass a little better than the senko but both are great baits. Yum Dinger is a slower falling bait.

We caught them alot in Florida. From what they say Its a sport fish that was imported from Europe that never took off as a true sportfish. The fish has lungs and gills. We used to leave them on the deck of the boat most of the day then make bets with people who didn't know that If I put the fish back into the water would it swim off or just be dead. They are a cool fish and a hard fighter.

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If it was up to me here is my top 6 1) Roland Martin 2) Rick Clunn 3) Denny Brauer 4) Larry Nixon 5) KVD 6) Mark Davis

(I call all vegetation grass) I look for grass that has a defined edge. I also look for places that have more than one kind of grass if available or two or more forms of cover. I also like to fish the holes in the grass. Sometimes the thickest stuff will hold fish over the thin stuff and sometimes a different color of grass will hold fish more than another. Depth changes and structure thats under the grass is what makes some grass better than others.

Fish slow and methodically. Time on the water. ;D

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I catch and keep bass once a year (maybe one or two a year). They taste great! I try to keep fish out of a clean clear body of water.

Take him out when you are prefishing and show him that fish live deep. Until you show him he may not take the time to fish it because he don't think there is fish out there or he don't know how to fish for them. Its like this if you go out and put a hurt on the fish 3 weeks before the tournament he might just change his mind and fish the deeper stuff.

oh crap!

Black buzzbait or spinnerbait.

Well here is my bassackwards approach. Fish shallow early with topwater and on the edges of the weeds or over them with a spinnerbait midmorning then afternoon flip them with a jig. I wouldn't go deep I would fish 5ft or less water. Keep in mind that fish are going to move all day long and that if you find them deep in cover at one point of the day they may move to the ouside edge or inside edge at some point of the day. Sometimes cold fronts don't effect the fish as bad as you might think. If its a bad cold front I would fish it the same as that tournament I won on the 15th. I would start with a jig then change when the bite slowed to a spinnerbait and move with the fish.

Well a largemouth bass, Smallmouth, Spot, red eye, rock, suwanee, are all members of the sunfish family not bass family.

1 stripped bass the rest are just sunfish

Fatdaddy get it done lol

Just split it up and have divisions then take the top 50 to have a winner takes all.