Slow swimming big grubs, swimbaits, and suspending jerkbaits. When fish are tight to the bottom, hair jigs.

That's pretty much Winter Bassin' to me.

Slow swimming big grubs, swimbaits, and suspending jerkbaits. When fish are tight to the bottom, hair jigs.

That's pretty much Winter Bassin' to me.

Looking for bait is not always the answer, its a good start, but its not a definite.

Correct, because there are no definites in fishing. Bass cannot eat if they dont have anything to eat. Bass dont generally like to travel much or very far in cold water to feed. It benefits them to stay with the shad once they bunch up in the winter.

In my experience here on the east coast in the winter months, finding bait is key and when you find the bait, you are fishing the higher percentage area.

    Fair enough. Here in my area I catch better fish that are feeding on craws and trout. Your right, there is usually fish close to bait, but in Jan and Feb here in Nor Cal, the bigger fish are on crawdads and trout. More protein, less work. We are also catching em from 1 to 70ft.

   

   

Looking for bait is not always the answer, its a good start, but its not a definite.

Correct, because there are no definites in fishing. Bass cannot eat if they dont have anything to eat. Bass dont generally like to travel much or very far in cold water to feed. It benefits them to stay with the shad once they bunch up in the winter.

In my experience here on the east coast in the winter months, finding bait is key and when you find the bait, you are fishing the higher percentage area.

    Fair enough. Here in my area I catch better fish that are feeding on craws and trout. Your right, there is usually fish close to bait, but in Jan and Feb here in Nor Cal, the bigger fish are on crawdads and trout. More protein, less work. We are also catching em from 1 to 70ft.

   

   

Looking for bait is not always the answer, its a good start, but its not a definite.

Correct, because there are no definites in fishing. Bass cannot eat if they dont have anything to eat. Bass dont generally like to travel much or very far in cold water to feed. It benefits them to stay with the shad once they bunch up in the winter.

In my experience here on the east coast in the winter months, finding bait is key and when you find the bait, you are fishing the higher percentage area.

    Fair enough. Here in my area I catch better fish that are feeding on craws and trout. Your right, there is usually fish close to bait, but in Jan and Feb here in Nor Cal, the bigger fish are on crawdads and trout. More protein, less work. We are also catching em from 1 to 70ft.