So today I was fishing one of the local ponds and noticed that most of the bass worth catching we’re all on beds. I was able to entice one  to bite after about ten thousand casts a color switch and about an hour’s worth of jigging a soft plastic in front of its face. Some of the bass were very tight to their beds, not moving more than a couple of inches to shoo away any nearby bluegill or smaller bass, while others would chase away fish that were a few feet from the bed. How do you guys get these fish to bite? From what I’ve read, it is notoriously hard. Sometimes bass would see my lure, rush up to it, then just kinda stare at it and float away. And that seemed to happen whenever I moved to a new spot and casted to a bed for the first couple of times. But after 2 or 3 casts the Bass didn’t seem to care about my jig any more. I even tried switching to a Jerkbait and a shallow diving crank to try and get the bedding bass to try and chase my lures away but neither of those worked. So yea, any tips on getting these bass to bite??

 

side note, every now and then I would stumble across a small school of bass (maybe 4 or 5) and they seemed to be chasing the  bluegill but whenever I cast out my cranks and soft plastics they would dart away or barely look twice at it. Is this also part of spawning behavior or are these bass just very aware of artificial baits (it is a highly pressured pond).

3 minutes ago, BigMinnow said:

How do you guys get these fish to bite?

 

Ya just described it!  ?

Throw a paddle tail swim bait beyond the bed. Swim it to the bed and let it drop in the bed. If bass think it's something trying to disturb the bed they will pick it up and move it out of the bed. Works with tubes too.

I caught one off a bed a couple days ago. One problem is they can usually see you, and then they don’t want to eat so that makes it extremely hard. I had him grab my craw trailer by the claws and move it off the bed. I got tired of being patient so I started hitting him in the head with it. Only took a couple smacks to make him attack.