| When bass fishing, anglers employ a variety of | | | | slow down and cast thoroughly into the |
| tactics to land their fish. At different types of | | | | immediate area to find more. If you are catching |
| day, different lures and bait can be employed. | | | | and releasing your fish, you should not put them |
| Good morning baits are buzzbaits and spinnerbaits. | | | | immediately back into the water. Frightened fish |
| Midday calls for crankbaits or "jig-n-pig" baits | | | | can scare others off. Most fishing boats have a |
| meant to look like crayfish. In the afternoon, | | | | live well in which you can keep fish before |
| plastic worms, fish, lizards, frogs, and fish can help | | | | releasing them. It is especially common to use |
| catch the perfect bass. Live bait can work at all | | | | these live wells in bass fishing tournaments to |
| times, but has to be kept in good condition so | | | | keep the fish biting at the lures. Schools of bass in |
| that it will move enticingly when sighted by the | | | | deeper waters will tend to clump more tightly |
| fish. Bass will eat almost anything moving, so it is | | | | together. In shallower water, the school may be |
| good to keep your line in motion. | | | | more spread out over a larger area. Similarly sized |
| Bass are cold blooded, and so can only survive | | | | bass will tend to school together. |
| and be active in a narrow range of temperatures. | | | | Bass love to congregate near cover and around |
| They are most active between sixty and | | | | structures and obstacles in the water. Bridge |
| seventy-five degrees Fahrenheit. Below fifty | | | | supports, large rocks, tires, bushes, and weeds all |
| degrees or so, their metabolisms slow down, and | | | | attract bass. These obstacles provide cover for |
| so does their eating. Sluggish bass are less inclined | | | | these predatory fish to seek out their prey, as |
| to take bait. Above eighty degrees, the level of | | | | well as protecting them from larger animals that |
| oxygen in the water drop and place the bass | | | | would like to prey on them. Bass are opportunistic |
| under stress. On a warm summer day, the bass | | | | feeders. They don't tend to stay where they |
| are likely to keep to cooler waters where the | | | | can't find food, but they'll eat almost anything |
| oxygen levels are higher. | | | | moving. Crayfish, insects, smaller fish, lizards and |
| Bass are a schooling fish. When you catch one, | | | | frogs can all be part of the bass menu. They |
| you will probably catch another in the same area. | | | | have even been known to eat small injured birds. |
| This means that once you find bass, you should | | | | |