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577. CrankBaiting Through Extreme Cover  Bass Fishing
A lot of Bass anglers never consider throwing a crankbait in the middle of heavy cover, simply because they think they will lose their crankbait.

I can personally tell you that if you fish it properly, you can fish the most heavy cover with a crankbait. All you have to do is take your time getting it through the vastness of branches and cover.

If you feel your bait crawling through the wood but then suddenly it gets hung up, just stop your bait and give it some slack, most of the time the bait will surface on its own right up out of the cover.

Most important is that you will be able to sink your hook on plenty of lunkers that are not used to seeing much action, simply because most anglers refuse to fish there.

Tight Lines,

Michael Wagner
"Gitten-r-Done"
http://www.LargemouthBassExtreme.com

LBF Member: largemouthbassextreme

578. Jerk bait , all the way to the boat.  Freshwater
how many times have you been fishing A jerk bait and when you get close to the boat you rip the bait out of the water just to see a fish hot on its tail but missed it? I've caught alot more fish by slowing down and watching my bait rite at the boat and letting it sit for a few seconds before taking out of the water. Always try to focus just behind the bait. If there is somthing following it, stop the bait then give it a twitch, and you'll boat more fish.

LBF Member: csimone
579. Strip Baits For Fluke  Saltwater
Take a whole herring and fillet in half with entrails included, take each half and freeze in heavily salted water, this will tuffen up the meat and entrails. Thread the thawed fillet on an extra long shank aberdeen hook at least in and out three time. Make sure the entrail side is up as well as the hook point. Drift with a egg sink, bead and swivel tied to a 2ft leader directly connected to hook. Pick up and drop in a rhythm to the drift for a minute, then drop steady for at least a 20 seconds with the bail open. Click over the bail and hold on for the ride of your life. Remeber to never horse large fluke, they will rip the hook out with pressure.

LBF Member: talltony
580. Jigs All Times of Year  Bass Fishing
I have had many people ask me when I am fishng local tournaments what I catch most of my big fish on. My answer if always a jig. I never take one off and always have 2 jigs tied on at all times. I have many ways to fish a jig but here are some of my favorite. In the winter everybody knows that a jig is probably the best way to catch big fish shallow or deep. In this time of the year I fish a jig slowly with little to no movement for long periods of time. I will let it sit for minutes at a time and then give it about 3 big hops letting it sit again and repeat. Most of my strikes are never felt they will just pick it up when it is sitting there and have it when you reel slack up. In that case I keep my line tight. Sometimes you will get a reaction strike with the big hops if it is infront of there face when hopped. Now what about in the spring time. Have you ever tried a jig in the spring when everyone is catching fish on a spinnerbait. Well maybe you should try this tactic and tell me if I am wrong. Instead of letting it sit on the bottom and hop or crawl it along swim the jig. I do this with a little bounce in my rod for one reason it gives the bait more action. I only throw finesse jigs by Terminator cause they have the smallest brush guard with the most active skirt on the market. For a trailer I use a Zoom Fat Albert Twin Tail to match the color of my jig. I started using these jigs and techniques almost two years ago when I met Jim Files online and have never looked back. I have won or placed in almost every tournament that I have fished in since using a jig. The most important thing to remember when throwing a jig is that it can catch fish and big fish any time of the year just be creative with it and modify it any way you want.
581. Crappie tip  Freshwater
A small 1" tube jig is probably the #1 bait for Crappie. One way to fish it that's very effective at times is below a bobber. As you work it back in it just hang in their face when it's paused. The thing I like to do is replace the bobber with a small top-water or jirk-bait. Remove the rear hook and replace it with the jig on a leader. You still get the fish on the jig but your bobber will catch'em too this way.

LBF Member: fluff47
582. Deep Crank'n  Bass Fishing
The new trend is to use heavy weight spinnerbaits as an alternitive to those deep-diving crank baits. They don't crank nearly as hard and, with enough weight, can be cranked along at a pretty good clip and still stay down.

It can, however be a problem finding much of a selection over 3/4oz. I bought some rubber core bait-weights, removed the core and crimped them on the hook shank. You can make any bait you like into a "heavy-weight" and very it from 1oz to 2oz easily. Going to a smaller single willow blade gives less water resistance also and will help keep it down while keeping up the pace.

LBF Member: Fluff47

583. Sinker Pegging  Bass Fishing
Next time the skirt breaks on your spinner bait save the rubber. Run a simple loop of line through through your slip sinker after you've put it on the line and use it to pull a few strands back through the wieght. It stops the sinker from sliding up the line and wont pinch it like a toothpick.

LBF Member: Fluff47
584. Fluke weighting  Bass Fishing
Everybody knows you can add a piece of nail or one of those special lead inserts for more weight but I think they interfere with my hookset. I like to just slide a tube weight over the hook shank before completing the texas rig. No more problem hooking up, adds just a little noise sliding around, and a different fall with the weight in the center. In a pinch even a split-shot crimped on a small loop of line will work.

LBF Member: Fluff47
585. Drop Shot  Bass Fishing
I use a bell sinker on my drop shot, the kind with a wire line tye. I've found by adding a worm hook, on a split ring, to the eye it doubles my chances. A texas riged little fluke or craw, at the top of the weight, looks like something feeding along the bottom.

The idea also works off the swivel of a carolina rig and much cheeper to lose than a jig should you get hung up.

LBF Member: fluff47

586. Home made scent  General Fishing
Sometimes fishing "scents" can be manufactured at home that will perform as well as or better than store-bought scents. One such scent is made by mixing Cod Liver Oil, garlic and salt. This is usually done in a small container with a small, flip-top opening. The ingredients are poured into the container and shaken. This type of cod-garlic scent may need to be kept in the refrigerator if it is not used within a few weeks. It will harden up in the refrigerator, then liquefy when it is warmed up again in the angler's hands. Another way to make this scent is to buy Cod Liver Oil softgel capsules. These are put in a small container and garlic powder and salt (or garlic salt) are sprinkled into the container as well. The garlic and salt flavors will soak into the softgels. The softgels can then be taken out one at a time and stuck on a lure's hook or punctured and squeezed onto or into a lure. Both largemouth bass and trout love this cod-garlic scent. (This tip is offered in loving memory of Dave Lowe).

LBF Member: lil smoove
587. Polarized Sunglasses  Bass Fishing
All anglers will better protect their eyes and be able to see underwater fish better with good quality polarized sunglasses. Polarization cuts surface glare due to the alignment of particles in or on the lens, which can actually help an angler see underwater. Since polarization makes sunglasses special, glasses that are polarized usually bear a special label when they're on the rack. However, not all polarized sunglasses are created equal. The better polarized sunglasses have a ground-in polarization that results in a top-notch, optical quality lens with no distortions. Cheaper polarized sunglasses only have a sprayed-on polarized finish that results in lens distortions that will cause eyestrain and can even damage the eyes. Like polarization, optical quality lenses are special, so if they're optical quality there will usually be a special label or information in the accompanying tag or pamphlet that says so.

LBF Member: lil smoove
588. Setting Cast Control  Bass Fishing
There are 2 primary methods for adjusting the cast controls on casting reels. Try them both and stick with the method that works best for you and your reel. One method is to adjust the control so that it just barely stops the reel from falling when you push the casting button. To do this, loosen the cast control a little and push the button. The lure should start falling. Quickly adjust the cast control until the lure stops falling. Remember to make small adjustments. The other method is to set the control so that there is no overrun when the lure strikes the deck. To do this, push the casting button and let the lure fall to the deck. If the spool keeps turning and lets the line overrun, adjust the cast control and try again. Make small adjustments until the spool stops the instant the lure hits the deck. With either method, you will need to re-adjust the cast control when you change lures, especially if the lure is a different weight.
589. Avoid tangles  General Fishing
Spinning reels often get bird's nests and tangles, which are usually caused by one of three mistakes. The first is putting the line on the reel improperly. The line should go onto the reel the same way it comes off the spool, taking advantage of the curve the line has memorized from being stored on the spool. Lay the spool FLAT on the ground (do NOT hold it vertically) and start winding the reel. If tangles begin, turn the spool over. The tangling should stop and your reel should be tangle free for the future, as long as you don't make the other two mistakes. The second mistake is to overfill the spool. Spinning reels should never be filled past the front spool lip, or too much line will come out during casting and -POOF!- you'll have a big mess of tangles. The third most common mistake is to crank the reel while a fish is taking out line. While it's OK to crank a baitcaster while a fish makes a run, a spinning reel is not designed for such a mistake. During the fish's run, cranking a spinning reel literally twirls the line around and around, twisting it up like a rubber band and resulting in lots of kinks and tangles.

LBF Member: big smoove
590. Drag setting  General Fishing
The biggest mistake made by anglers is to have their drag set improperly. Most manufacturers recommend that your drag be set at one-third of your line's test weight. This means that a reel holding 15 pound test line should have the drag set to let out line at 5 pounds of pull. To set your drag run the line out through your rod's guides, tie a loop in the end, then use the hook on a fish scale (the tool, not the fish body part) to pull on the line. When the weight shown on the scale is one-third of your rated line weight, the drag should be letting out line. If not, adjust the drag until it does.

LBF Member: big smoove
591. Carp Bait  Freshwater
A good home-made bait for catching Carp is a fish and bread mixture. Grate a Large amount of cheese into a bowl and rip smallish pieces of bread into the cheese. Roll up a piece of bread and knead in the cheese. Keep adding more cheese and bread until it is about the size of a brussel sprout. You can use this to chum the area up or to use as hook bait. Make sure you use a large hook and pack the bread and cheese around it.

LBF Member: big smoove
592. Bass tip  Freshwater
The easiest way for me to catch bass is on a purple weedless worm with white stripes at between sunset and night. This seems to work well, as bass tend to bite on things below the surface at this time, partly because they can just manage to see it. I usually just cast this worm on a plain old rod into a weedbed or structure. It works well for me, and my sister caught a ten-inch bass on a friday and a hefty sixteen-inch bass the next day around the same time.

LBF Member: big smoove
593. Using Mircos  Freshwater
Anglers who use a Micro Power Craw® or Micro Power Grub® rigged on 1/64 ounce jig head, and fishing an ultralight outfit can hook up with almost any type of fish that swims. They are a great pond bait, because bluegill, bass and crappie love 'em.

Baby crawfish grow up under rocks and are the preferred food of many fish. When exposed, they will be eaten by almost any kind or size of fish. Because of this, you'll be amazed by how big a fish you can catch on a Micro Power Craw. Micros are very effective when fished under a slip bobber 4-5 " above the bottom. Just let the bait drift by itself, and if there's even the slightest wave action, the bait will look like it's swimming on it's own. This presentation is effective for any kind of fish.

LBF Member: lil smoove

594. tips for tarpon  Saltwater
Inshore tarpon fishermen have been having phenomenal success with the Power Pogy. It effectively imitates like bait with a realistic swimming action as well as powerful scent and flavor technology.

LBF Member: lil smoove
595. Texas Style Worm  Freshwater
First, slip a small cone sinker onto your line and tie on hook. Insert the point about 1/2 inch into the head of your Power Worm. Then, press the hook through the worm until the eye is almost covered by the worm's head. Rotate the hook a half turn, then bury the point. A Texas style rig can be fished in very heavy cover. If the worm catches on any underwater structure, twitch the rod to free it. This kind of rig also works well for flipping alongside of stumps or docks, or in any hard-to-reach spot. Keep your line taut as the worm sinks and be ready to set your hook at the first sign of a line twitch.

LBF Member: lil smoove
596. choose the right worm  Freshwater
Fish straight-tail Power Worms when fish are laying low and staying tight to cover. Choose paddle-tail Power Worms when you want maximum vibration with a slow retrieve, and try swimming-tail Power Worms when the fish are really biting.

LBF Member: lil smoove
597. Removing Line Twist  General Fishing
When motoring across the water, you can reduce spinning line twist by removing your lure and trolling your line behind you as you go. Letting a baitless line float downstream when river fishing also eliminates twists.

LBF Member: lil smoove
598. Bright Flies  Freshwater
When fishing for salmon use a bright fly and a good knot. It helps fish see the fly.
599. pay attention to weather  Boating
Pay attention to the weather, before and after you are on the water: Before leaving for the day, check all available sources of weather information, especially if you know there is weather approaching. Don’t rely on the weather reports from the night before. VHF radios have up-to-date weather information on specific channels (weather band) running constantly. Another good reason to have a VHF radio with you. Set the weather band to automatically announce weather warnings during the day and you can be assured that unpredicted or developing weather won’t catch you off guard. Keep an eye to the sky. Wind direction changes can be harbingers of impending weather changes. Don’t ignore thunder.

LBF Member: big smoove
600. float plan  Boating
1. File a “float plan” so people will know where you are: Map out your plan for the day, know where you are going and how to tell someone where you are. Call your spouse or friends and let them know your general vicinity and the approximate time you will return. If help is needed, that contact person can send help in your direction. Better yet, a waterproof, handheld GPS (about $130) will give your rescuers exact coordinates of your location. It will also help you backtrack out to safety should you be caught in a fog or blinding rain.

LBF Member: big smoove
601. In-spinners for Redfish  Saltwater
Bayou Buck's Redfish Spinners After also having success with the Shrimpaler in Cocodrie, I began using Gary "Buck" Thompson's sworn by inline spinnerbait. On first glance of this lure I just kinda laughed thinking that this may catch redfish here but back home they would run from it. Boy was I ever wrong. It works incredible on grassy points or in stained water (I've found that the rougher and more stained the water, the better the big blade works). This is a hard lure to beat as far as blind-casting to locate fish. It seems to usually find your bigger fish as well. Bayou Buck's "ZZ Spot Spinner" helped us earn thousands on the Pro Redfish Tour last year and has also improved my guide trips by far. Use it around oysters or points where bait is stacked up and it will call in the fish. Good luck and tight lines, Captain Travis Tanner

LBF Member: big smoove
602. Shrimpaler Lure  Saltwater
I started using Bayou Buck Lures last year during a fishing tournament in Lafitte, Louisiana. Of course I have seen many redfish lures in my time but these really caught my eye and I'm glad they did. I started out with some Shrimpalers, they work great replacing the hooks in riptide shrimp and jerkbaits. The bait doesn't slide down the hook once it is inside. This allows longer use of the bait and much better hook sets, especially because of the high-quality VMC hooks used. It is hard to beat this setup when sight-casting for redfish or anything else for that matter. The Shrimpaler's extra weight also allows you to fish deeper water levels in locating fish.

LBF Member: big smoove
603. Setting the hook with a baitcaster  General Fishing
Remember to always keep both hands on the reel, this makes you reaction time alot quicker for stronger hook sets.
604. Drift Sock  General Fishing
Fishing slow, slow, slow. When fishing for northern smallmouth make sure you always use your drift sock when the wind kickcs up. This is crucial while dragging tubes to give the bass an opportunity to get aggetated. Here is the trick, I always keep 2 drift socks in the boat, don't hesitate to use 2 on the really rough days.
605. Fish Into the Wind  General Fishing
When fishing on windy days it can work alot better to cast into the wind. This will help keep the bow out of your line and help eliminate backlash for all of you baitcasters.
606. Good cold water lure  Bass Fishing
Bent or straight blades. It is a member of the spoon family. The best ones for catching largemouths is the chrome or gold colors, no markings. The best for smallmouths is the painted ones. Fish it deep like a jig with short, slow, six inch lifts. Hook sets should be lite because you could easily lose a fish. When the bass takes it, it will be soft, but he will swallow it.

LBF Member: melkizadek
607. Good place to try for brookies in creek  Freshwater
If you are fishing for brook trout, try and put your bait in deep holes with darker rocks, or hard curents running through them. The brookies like these areas a lot.

LBF Member: Jake
608. Brookies in the creeks  Freshwater
When fishing for brook trout, stay clear of the banks. Try and hold the rod out as far as you can to put your pull in the water so that you dont scare the fish away from vibrations.

LBF Member: Jake
609. Snap Swivel for Bass  Bass Fishing
Put a snap swivel on while fishing for bass. The bass sometime will open there mouths while you real them in to help fight. This sometimes causes them to get in a spinning motion. So it will help if you have a snap swivel on so that the line does'nt break from all the rotation.

LBF Member: Jake
610. Line test  General Fishing
After putting a bait on your line, grab a hold of your bait and then give your line a nice pull just to be sure that the knot isnt going to fall apart if you get a fish on.

LBF Member: Jake
611. Gum and Oatmeal!?  General Fishing
If you have a live trap, minnows like oatmeal a lot! Although it desinigrates quickly. Try using chewed up gum too, it takes a LONG time for that to disapear. Just make sure you don't throw it in the water afterwards and litter the lake up.

LBF Member: Jake
612. Take out the water  General Fishing
If you happen to get water inside your tackle box, WHIPE IT OUT. Trust me I learned the hard way. I got water in my drawer will all of my expensive rapala lures and the next week they were all rusted out:(

LBF Member: Jake
613. Bluegills don't need big hooks  Freshwater
When fishing for bluegill, use hooks that are only small. The reason is that it keeps the fish on better because they dont have to fit this huge hook in there mouths,when they have tiny mouths as it is.

LBF Member: Jake
614. Bluegill skill  Freshwater
When fishing for big bluegill, make sure you use a small bobber. The fish get scared if one, they feel the vibration,two, they dont like the feeling of the bait pulling up, or three, the look of the bobber splashing scares them.

LBF Member: Jake
615. Rock Bass with Crayfish  Bass Fishing
Use a crayfish bait to attract a rock bass. The crayfish is a rock bass's main source of food in the wild so they love this treat. And if you do use this, I don't know if its true for all situations but I only catch the bigger bass with a crayfish.

LBF Member: Jake
616. Rock Bass specialty  Bass Fishing
Try using a small minnow with the hook in the head of it, throw it behind a boat or cast it to shore, the rock bass go crazy for this rig. Just make sure it is a slow retrieve.

LBF Member: Jake
617. After the Netting  General Fishing
After you net a fish, get the fish out of the net A.S.A.P. This will help you so you wont have to deal with as many tangles and you wont have to cut your net to pieces trying to get a hook out of the net.

LBF Member: Jake
618. Netting fish  General Fishing
When netting always try and net them with the face going in first. Most fish can't swim backwards so if you put it in the front of their faces, they only have one way to go, and that would be straight in. Some big fish can go backwards though, but only slowly.

LBF Member: Jake
619. Breakfast fit for a Tournament  General Fishing
Eat a HUGE breakfast before a day on the water for a tournament. Breakfast is the main meal of the day and you will have better reaction time out on the water. Plus if you need to, you can spend less time eating your lunch and more time fishing.

LBF Member: Jake
620. Tournament organization  General Fishing
The day before you are going into a tournament, set a game plan to have a better success rate then if you were to just go unprepared and be scavanging around the first morning of the tournament.

LBF Member: Jake
621. Reel and line care  General Fishing
Don't place your entire reel in the water with line on it. If you do this, the line will dry up, and when it drys, you wont get as smooth of a cast as you normally would.

LBF Member: Jake
622. Line care  General Fishing
After using a fishing pole, keep it out of the hot sun, the quick evaporation of the water off the line makes the line break easier the next time you use it.

LBF Member: Jake
623. The plastic worm  General Fishing
If you plan on going on a trip, or just want a standard lure. Get a bunch of plastic worms. They are cheap, easy to use, and catch a hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhuge variety of fish.

LBF Member: Jake
624. The Grasshopper  Bass Fishing
If you are cheap like me, and you dont want to go buy lures, its easy to go catch a couple of grasshopers,put them on a floating jig, and cast them out. The legs will kick on them and attract the bass.

LBF Member: Jake
625. Where do they go in the sun  Bass Fishing
When the bass arent protecting there beds on hot days, go to the side of the lake where the treelines are putting shadows over the lake. It is always a great idea to try fishing in those areas if the action is slow

LBF Member: Jake
626. Murky water bass  Bass Fishing
I have noticed that really big bass like murky water. To get their attention is a different story. If you want to try murky water fishing, use a really shiny bait to attract attention, but if the water is to murky where color doesnt matter, use baits that make a lot of motion and vibrations such as a buzz bait or topwater lures.

LBF Member: Jake
627. Use what color baits when.  Bass Fishing
Use shiny baits in murky water and use darker baits in clearer water. Sticking to this rule seems to catch me a lot of fish. The only time you dont need to follow this rule at all is at night time using topwater baits or when the water is so murky you just cant see it anyway

LBF Member: Jake
628. Placing bait for pike.  Ice Fishing
Usually pike stay pretty close to the bottom of the lake in the winter. When you put your bait in the water, keep in mind that a pikes eyes are on the top of its head, so they only see food higher then them, so it is best to bring the bait up off of the bottom quite a bit so they will see it.

LBF Member: Jake
629. Attracting Pike with tipups  Ice Fishing
Before you put on a hook and a shiner to catch a pike with a tipup, put on a spinner, and a few colored beeds to attract the fish better, then stick on the shinner, sucker, or whatever you use.

LBF Member: Jake
630. Floating frog bait realisticness  General Fishing
If you have a floating frog bait, add weight to the rear end of it. The weight will pull down the back more so that it looks more like a real frog sitting in water.

LBF Member: Jake
631. Bring in the battery  Boating
If you use a battery powerd trolling motor, take in the battery everynight if you leave your boat on the lake. If it gets left in the rain, the water somehow steels energy from the battery. It also ruins the battery so it has less power time.

LBF Member: Jake
632. Crappie special  Freshwater
A lot of people who fish crappie no that if you throw out shiny objects with your bait, they find it very attractive and will go after it. So for those of you who didn't know that, now you do. The main tip that I wanted to get across was the things you can use that are shiny. One thing is if you plan on keeping a fish you catch, cut off some of its scales and that should work. Just throw them out and cast your bait by it. Another think you can use is crushed up eggshells. Just save the egg shells in a tin can by the stove and have people put them in there. You can also use regular old glitter.

LBF Member: Jake
633. Use those broken rods  General Fishing
I know from fishing a lot that things can happen to the rods, such as stepping on the tips and breaking them, geting them slamed in doors, all of that good stuff. Well here is the deal, if you take the rods and cut them down to a smaller size, to a point where you have one of the eyes at the tip, you can find them very useful. They are easy to use when you go out fishing on a creek in the woods, or you can just throw one in your backpack if they are small enough.

LBF Member: Jake
634. Forgot the eye poker for the jigs  General Fishing
If you go fishing and you dont have an eye poker to get the paint out of the eyes of your jigs, use another jigs hook to puncture a hole through it.

LBF Member: Jake
635. Safe weight idea.  Boating
If you are using a small boat with a couple of your fishing buddies, and one of them is really heavy set. Put him in the back near the motor. There was an incident I heard about where a few guys went duck hunting and when the heavy guy was in the front, the front end went under and they all died because they had heavy gear on. Just remember to put the big guy in the back.

LBF Member: Jake
636. OUCH!  General Fishing
If you get a hook caught into you, you would always think to pull it back out from the entrance wound. Here is a little tip, if you get a hook stuck in you pretty deep, turn the hook so it exits in another part of your skin. With a pair of fingernail clippers, cut off the top of the hook so that you cant then easily rotate it out, instead of it getting stuck because of the extra part that hangs off of the hook.

LBF Member: Jake
637. Slow Pike  Freshwater
If you are casting along a weed bed and the pike are being slow, try putting on a crawler harness and casting it to the weed bed. Let it sink right next to it and slowly jig it back to the boat. I came very close to winning a fishing derby last year by doing this. It really works

LBF Member: Jake
638. Don't stop reelin  Freshwater
If you have a fish swiming after your bait, don't stop reeling it in unless the fish is really far away, if you stop reeling in say if a bass if following the bait, the bass just instantly gets , i guess you could say "turned off" by this and will swim away from the bait. So just keep reeling in if a fish is swimming after your bait.

LBF Member: Jake
639. Crankbait tease.  Bass Fishing
Just before the spawning searson when the bass move up into shallow waters, using a crankbait is a very good idea. The bass make smaller fish suck as bluegill scatter all over the place and the bass chase them around. Reel a crankbait in fast and you might just get a bite.

LBF Member: Jake
640. Rattlers not always good  Bass Fishing
On hot sunny days dont use a crankbait with a rattle on it. The bass are not agressive at that time and the rattles scare them more then they attract them. Its sometimes good just to stick with a regular old crankbait.

LBF Member: Jake

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