Micropterus salmoides fastened to their mattresses

[burrows]

bass are getting ready to bed and in some places already on beds! What are you throwing at them? Or what do you plan to throw at them? !!!!!

[Mike L]

I'll rotate between a lizard, trick worm (maybe on a shaky head, maybe not) and a speed craw. 

All white. 

 

 

 

 

 

Mike 

 

[J Francho]

https://www.bassresource.com/fishing/dropshot-bedding-bass.html

[scaleface]

Its going to take an awful long cast for me to hit a bedding bass .

[NYWayfarer]

My Bass are still doing the rip van winkle for another month at least.

[burrows]

58 minutes ago, scaleface said:

Its going to take an awful long cast for me to hit a bedding bass .

Probably next month maybe won’t have to cast so far?

[scaleface]

How bout June/May . 

[TOXIC]

As a general rule, bass don't care what you throw on their bed, they just don't want it there, so I tend to throw whatever I can see the best when they pick it up to move it off the bed.  I prefer baits that I can set the hook and not have to go through a lot material.  I also prefer a compact bait because they are not "eating" the bait, they have a habit of just picking it up by whatever is exposed, moving it and spitting it out.  

[TnRiver46]

I don’t throw anything at a bass on the bed. I’m sure I catch them sometimes off a bed but rarely see them on one. And if I do see them on a bed, I usually only cast at them once or twice if at all. I like fishing for the hungry ones 

[Bluebasser86]

A Ned rig has proven to be a killer bed bait for me. I also like a swinging football head with a white Zman Turbo CrawZ or a keel weighted fluke allowed to settle on the bed. 

[CroakHunter]

Rage menace on a shaky head.

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8 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

A Ned rig has proven to be a killer bed bait for me. I also like a swinging football head with a white Zman Turbo CrawZ or a keel weighted fluke allowed to settle on the bed. 

Do you have a preference to keel weighted hook, brand, style, you use on your fluke? 

On 2/15/2018 at 7:32 AM, TOXIC said:

As a general rule, bass don't care what you throw on their bed, they just don't want it there, so I tend to throw whatever I can see the best when they pick it up to move it off the bed.  I prefer baits that I can set the hook and not have to go through a lot material.  I also prefer a compact bait because they are not "eating" the bait, they have a habit of just picking it up by whatever is exposed, moving it and spitting it out.  

I tend to also use a compact bait I like using a rage menace and I will usually use the summer craw color I think that’s what it called? The green pumpkin with chartuse belly. They can see it well and they usually eat it rather then move it because it’s a small compact bait in my experience.

[RPreeb]

On 2/15/2018 at 6:25 AM, scaleface said:

Its going to take an awful long cast for me to hit a bedding bass .

Amen!  Got an awful lot of very hard water around here yet.