Lets Get The New Shore Fisherman A Catching Too.

[bigbill]

First if you don't have a boat that's ok I don't too for now.

Say to your self you don't need a boat to catch fish. Now repeat it often. My point is do not focus and defeat / beat yourself up over not having a boat. We need to fish and be successful before you get a boat. I'm going to cover somethings. Others are welcome to add there knowledge too.

What you have to do to start off catching bass.

1. SPINNERBAITS (shore fishing)

WEIGHT mini 1/8oz. 3/16oz. or 1/4oz. Colorado blades gold

COLORS BLUE GLIMMER and or HOT CHARTRUESE SKIRTS

TRAILERS mister twister 4" split double tail grub

Blue glimmer skirt gets a white trailer.

Hot chartreuse skirt gets a chartreuse trailer.

TRAILER HOOK SIZE. 2/0

Now the grub trailer must be trimmed on the grub body length to fit the 1/8oz and 3/16oz spinnerbaits. The grub body fits the 1/4oz spinner bait. Make sure you install the split double tail grub exactly on the centerline of the spinner bait. It's a learning process on setting up your first spinner bait. Make notes as you go and how you set it up and the changes you make.

I find the gold single or dual Colorado blades seem to cover most water conditions I have here and work better in shore fishing. Some twin blade spinnerbaits May have one Colorado and one Indiana blade. That's ok too.

Tweaking or tuning up a spinner bait. I have taken a 3/16oz single gold #2 Colorado blade and up sized it to a #3 Colorado gold blade. This was my very first successful fish catching spinner bait using the blue glimmer skirt with the MT 4" split double tail grub as a trailer with a 2/0 trailer hook. It worked so good on my last cast a giant pickerel came parallel to the shoreline out of the water to rip it off my line as I went to pull it out of the water. I was in shock and froze while watching him shake his head as he ripped it off my line at will.

I was having my best day ever catching fish with a spinner bait.

I was mad like Iron Mike Tyson when I seen my spinner bait gone at first. But I realized I got the setup right.

PRESENTATION is the key too.

I cast it out with a side cast so it hits the water softly but doesn't slam the water very hard so I don't spook the fish. Then I reel it just fast enough to make the blade spin and make the tails on the split double tail grub swim and look real.

SCENTS

I give the trailer on the spinner bait one shot of bass attractant.

I use the smaller sized spinnerbaits more in the shallows and over the submerged weeds and along side the open water along the weed lines. Also up the Rocky points and across them. I like to fan cast across the Rocky points with spinnerbaits and jigs too.

I find casting a lure straight down a rocky point into the deeper water can be successful too. But the lure speed is the key to success. Not too fast and not too slow.

These two colors I find is a good starting point.

Hope this helps. In clear or stained water watch behind your spinnerbait to see the action. The hot chartreuse kind of glows in the water.

I finding in using the smaller spinnerbaits from shore gives me the knowledge on how to set them up and use them.

[Fishingmd]

Can you share some examples of your spinnerbaits with trailers? Pictures?