Need Help Fishing For Bass

[SnazzySenko]

Ok so I recently got into fishing and I live around a lake but I don't have a boat and I try to catch bass with worms, crank baits, flukes, and have tried many different colors and can't even get a bite and I know how to cast and move them but I get no bites all day, is it me or are there no fish in the lake?

[Marty]

I can't answer your question. But if you haven't fished the lake thoroughly, I'd recommend that you fish it as often as you can. Move around, cover a lot of water and try to be there under more favorable conditions, such as low light or pre-cold front. After a while you should be able to tell if there's a decent fish population that can be caught from shore. There certainly seems to be nothing wrong with the lures you're using.

[SnazzySenko]

Thanks, I've fished it a couple times and I've seen others fish there too and they can't seem to catch anything. Guess I have to find a new lake. Thanks for the reply.

[Sam]

Louie, we all need help catching bass. That's why this site is so popular and there are thousands of baits, rods, reels, lines, tackle, books, DVDs and YouTube posts.

And those little green monsters with a brain the size of a marble still outsmart us.

To be a good bass fisherman you need to study bass fishing. Just like if you wanted to be a rocket scientest. You would study rocket science.

You need to go to bass fishing seminars; watch those DVDs; read those books; go to the top of this page and read the articles; hit the web sites of the pros and read their information. May I suggest hitting Woo Daves web page, www.woodaves.com and read his articles.

Here are two sites you need to visit and save in your favorites:

https://www.youtube.com/bassresource

http://www.bassresou...=subscribe&id=1

As for your lake, you need to consider doing the following:

1. Walk around the entire lake and try to see what is along the shoreline and if there is any structure or rocks/stumps on the bottom that could hold the bass.

2. Look around the lake for wood or grass/pads. Bass love wood and grass/pads.

3, Fish for bait fish to find out if there are any baitfish in the lake. Use live minnows, corn, Nightcrawlers or small grubs on light line and see what you can catch. This will tell you what the bass eat and you can select your baits accordingly.

4. Get a spinning rig; use 8 pound flourocarbon line; get a #1 or 1/0 worm hook and put a 4-inch #297 Senko on it and go fishing. Throw that Senko everywhere as you walk around the lake.

5. Get a spinning rig; use 6 or 8 pound flourocarbon line; get a 1/16 shaky head jig head and put a green pumpkin trick worm on it. Throw that shakyhead everywhere as you wak around the lake.

6. Ever heard of a Carolina rig? Look it up on this site and YouTube. Throw that rig as you walk around the lake feeling for what is on the bottom. Invest in a tungston weight ($$$$$$$) so you can fee the bottom. Use a baitaster with 12 to 17 pound flourocarbon line.

7. Drag a jig of your choice (Check out Denny Brauer's web site and his book) with a plastic pig and make it look like a crawfish on the bottom.

In other words, experiment to find out if there are any bass in the lake and if so, where are they.

Remember that the deepest part of the lake is usually by the dam. So fish the dam area.

Your homework is to read, read and read somemore about bass fishing.

Remember, you can have structure without bass but not bass without structure.

Weather conditions. You need to learn weather conditions and its affect on the bass population.

Suscribe to as many bass magazines as you can. "Like" Ike's Facebook page along with other bass pros' Facebook page.

Any fool can walk around a lake or pond and throw a biat not having any idea of how to fish and they can luck out and catch something. You want to be able to master that lake and to do so you need to educate yourself on bass fishing.

And that's the fun of bass fishing.

Good luck and all the best for a bright bass fishing future.

[SnazzySenko]

Thanks man! This is really going to help me, gotta get to my reading now!

[Tuckahoe Joe]

Sam gave you great advice. Im still learning too and the only other thing I can really say is don't get discouraged. Sometimes the fish win.

[merc1997]

when all else fails, try some night crawlers. it is amazing sometimes how many fish are in an area when you put the real thing in front of them. you did not mention if you ever see any evidence of fish. examples would be perch, minnows, crawdads for a food source. is there any surface activity early or late? how big is your lake, and can you fish different areas of it easily?

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[Loop_Dad]

I'm bit confused...You know different baits, PB is 7-8 lbs, so you are not a total newbie even if you said you recently started. If the lake is really the question, why don't you ask local's, like fishing gear shop, to find out if there's any fish in it or not. If there's no fish, no technique or persistence will get you any fish.

[roadwarrior]

http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/topic/13845-guaranteed-to-catch-bass/

[SnazzySenko]

Well I've gone out and fished a couple times and caught a few fish for fun but now I'm getting really serious and into it and the lake is not easily disable in different parts because it has houses on them but there are a few spots and I went back to try again and I caught 2 bass and 3 catfish and 1 blue gill in one day when I walked around every possible open spot I could. Thanks to everyone who helped me out!

[scaleface]

Fish on a windy day, the windier the better. The waves crashing on the shoreline will stun and dislodge things bass like to eat. A few years back I fished a lake and we had forty mile an hour sustained winds. To windy to even think about launching a boat. I had a great afternoon catching many species using half a senko on a jig head and,just walking along a rocky shoreline casting and reeling. Use to do the same thing on the Mississippi river, only it was barges creating the waves. As soon as the barge waves crashed against riprap bass would move in and feed for a couple of minutes. Wind and waves makes the water come alive.