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Spinnerbaits are all about water displacement. The one question you should ask yourself before using a spinnerbait is: What combination of head size and blade combination do I need to fish a certain depth and have the best presentation? The deal with spinnerbaits is that you do “Not” want the bass to be able to get a good look at it. Does a bass have arms and hands to pick up a bait and check it out before it eats it – “No!” The only thing it has is its mouth. If the bass sees, feels, or smells that it is not something that is of nutritional value or is not “pissing it off” it will not eat it.
Lets focus on the “pissing it off” factor for a minute. This is definitely a way of generating a bite. A perfect example here is a lay down tree off a bank into 5 – 10 feet of water (even more so an a slightly windy and partly cloudy day). It may take up to 10 – 15 casts before you roll that spinnerbait by that finicky bass and just piss it off enough where it decides to strike at it. You’ll here the pros say the same thing, if you see what appears to be a great spot where the bass “should be”, don’t just throw a bait in there once, and if you don’t get a strike, leave. You want to hit every inch of that spot and cast in there 10 – 15 times. In this example we have been talking about spinnerbaits, however, when I run into this in a tournament, I’ll hit it with both a jig & pig, and a wacky rigged senko – both of which are always rigged and ready to go on the deck of my boat during just about all tournaments.
This actually brings us to another topic of the structure mentioned above. One of the keys to catching more bass is to really use the structure to your advantage. What I mean by this is that you should try and bump that spinnerbait against that tree, log, stump, etc. A good analogy here is your typical household cat. Have you ever tried to fish for your cat? Obviously using something without hooks in it. What happens after the first time you throw a bait on a string to your cat. It attacks it viciously. Same applies to a bass. Now what happens it you do the same thing 20 – 30 times? Eventually the cat knows what’s going on and loses interest. This same principle can be applied to lakes and fishing for bass, they see so many baits going by, and after getting their lip half way ripped off, stuck in a livewell, grabbed by their upper lip several times,
held in the air, and then thrown back in the water half way across the lake – they may not hit these baits very often. However, if your still trying to catch your cat, even after 20 – 30 times, what happens when you bump that mouse against the side of a chair, or piece of furniture and it stops, bounces and bobbles around a little – that cat will attack it almost every time!
The same technique of multiple casts to the same target and using the structure to your advantage applies in deep weeds. Here you want to use a little heavier spinnerbait, cast into the weeds and let the bait flutter down and then rip it up and out and repeat throughout the weed
bed!
By: JD
Lunker USA
www.LunkerUSA.com
Note: I learned much of this from a seminar by Kevin Van
Dam. If you get the chance, attend one of his
seminars!
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