| Catching these fish with conventional spinning or | | | | looking for and where they are located. Angler of |
| casting gear is an experience in itself, though | | | | the Year Award, and one of the best known and |
| there is another way to fish for smallmouth bass | | | | most loved TV fishing personalities, Jimmy |
| that gets overlooked by most anglers. That other | | | | Houston is a bass legend. Whether he's fishing |
| way as you might have guessed from reading | | | | with sports or political celebrities or with his |
| the title of this article is fly fishing for smallmouth | | | | children, Jimmy's tips and tales are insightful, |
| bass. Catch a minnow with bread if you wanna | | | | instructive, and laugh-out-loud funny. |
| waste your worm then catch a minnow with a | | | | Striped bass mingle with both bluefish and false |
| worm. I would do this in a man made lake, they | | | | albacore as they fatten up on the shoals of a |
| have tons of minnows. | | | | myriad of baits including bay anchovies, |
| Rivers are an excellent place to fish for bass. | | | | menhaden, and herring. During the fall months we |
| Water temperatures tend to be more moderate | | | | have countless opportunities to attain the |
| then that found in lakes. Rivers provide one of | | | | "Northeast Grand Slam" as well as some of those |
| the healthiest habitats, due to the highly | | | | 20 lb. Striped bass do not tolerate handling as well |
| oxygenated waters from the rapid current. In | | | | as Largemouth bass. Extra measures to minimize |
| order to fish bass from rivers, it is best to seek | | | | handling should be taken when releasing legal or |
| out breaks in the current, perhaps from a fallen | | | | sub-legal sized fish. |
| tree, a stump, or rocks. | | | | Largemouth bass like a quiet, more vegetated |
| Cranks baits are a good lure of choice since their | | | | water than other black bass, but will use |
| wobble and flash action attract hungry lake trout. | | | | submerged logs or anything else similar that's |
| Along with crank baits, spoons, jigs and spinners | | | | around. Nests are built usually in two to eight feet |
| are also good choices. Crank baits with are longer | | | | of water. Largemouth bass are found around |
| larger lip are made to dive and should be used in | | | | thick weed beds, but the smallmouth bass prefer |
| deeper water. Cranks baits and soft plastics | | | | to hide out where the rock ledge drops off |
| worked slow will produce best. As water | | | | sharply. Largemouth bass prefer to nest in |
| continues to warm the bass will move into their | | | | quieter, more vegetated water than other black |
| deeper holes along the river channel, sloughs, | | | | bass, but will use any substrate besides soft mud, |
| creeks and grass beds. | | | | including submerged logs. As in Guadalupe bass, |
| Anglers who catch big bass all the time don't do it | | | | once the female has laid eggs in the nest (2,000 |
| because of mere luck. They know what it takes | | | | to 43,000) she is chased away by the male who |
| to catch lunker bass, what the big bass are | | | | then guards the precious eggs. |