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[B200]Bass Fishing Winter Tips

by Joseph Brown, Jos

Since bass fish are cold-blooded, their bodies? temperature is the same as that of the water's. The water's temperature, hence, control the activities and swimming patterns of the bass. The colder the temperature of the water, the slower heartbeat the fish has, the less food and oxygen they require and less activities they do.

In 70-degree water, a two or three-pound bass might eat and digest a one-inch forage in six hours and afterwards might get hungry again. In 50-degree water, it might however take 48 longs hours to digest that same food. If the water is less than 45 degrees, it is most probable that the fish will not eat the food in the first place. Digesting food it this kind of temperature will take it weeks to digest the food.
For most anglers wanting to go bass fishing on a winter day, it might turn out to be a nice day with everyone else enjoying each other's company while fishing, but usually they do not get the desired results when it comes to bass catching. Winter season is admittedly not a very prolific time of the year when it comes to bass fishing.

Warmer days during winter season might see some improvement in bass fishing but it would really be difficult to catch many bass before mid month of February. Stripers as well as hybrid bass is going to be your best hope, and you do have more chance with crappie than bass in the wintry, cold water. You might want to travel to Lake Sinclair and other waters around the coal-fired power plants and go fish on the much warmer water coming from the plants. Definitely, the warm water discharge improves your bass catch.

Nonetheless, if you insist on bass fishing this time of the year, remember always that they are cold-blooded. Winter slows them down so you should match them by slowing down yourself. Use the smallest of bait that you have. If you have bait that will stay preferably forever in front of the fish and doing only insignificant movements, this is much better. Preferred bait would be a jigging spoon that would work up and down in a slow fashion might earn a bite from an inactive bass. A doodling worm in the same spot might also prove effective.

When all is done to try for a productive bass fishing in winter, yet nothing unfortunately worked, do not fret. Even if you do not catch a single bass fish, I am sure your being on the lake this cold winter and just trying your best is definitely better than anything else for an avid bass fisherman like you.

It is true that some of the people consider it as their source of living but others find pleasure in it, so finally they will realize to just make it as their hobby. Don't you know that most of the people who are getting into it even spend a lot of money just to buy the necessary equipments for fishing? It includes the baits, fishing rod and even the boats that they prefer to use when they go fishing. Some would even make it as their collections.

Talking about fishing as a hobby and just to give you finer points about it, there are lots of information about bass fishing that you can surf in the net.

Lots of boxes full of lures and baits can be found when you deal about bass fishing. They had been used once or twice and sometimes anglers would suddenly realize that these lures would serve its purpose anyway, so they shouldn't regret even though they spend a lot of money just to purchase such stuffs.

If this is your motivation for most of your lure purchases, then before you walk into the tackle shop again and spend some more of your hard earned money, you may want to take some advices first from someone who has been there and done that, so you wouldn't spare any regret in the end.

Most of the anglers usually go to their favorite tackle departments and try to check on the different selections of offerings that they are thinking and planning to purchase. One of the examples of the things that you can realize after visiting your most favorites tackle department is that, fisherman should take it more significantly to look at their lures as tools and not as toys.

Moreover, aside from the necessity of knowing the right tool to be used, for a successful and dedicated bass fisherman, it is a significant consideration that they must try to know the proper manner of using it and under which conditions.

To give you a clear picture on it, here is a very basic instance. Just try to consider this scenario, if a miner is hired to drill a tunnel through bedrock, it would be unproductive to use a bit that is designed to drill through sand or topsoil. Everything must conform under the proper condition.

Now, obviously the same analysis applies to bass fishing, remember that lures are intended to be used in certain situations and conditions. To throw jerk bait with three sets of treble hooks on to a mat of floating moss is the same as attempting to drill through granite with a sand bit. You have to use the proper tool for the conditions at hand.

Lure are used to catch fish but you must bear in mind that by simply throwing your lures in the water, it is already a guarantee that the fish will get near to you and take the lure as you wish. Bass Fishing needs a lot of considerations, such as the weather condition, the season, the type of body of water (be it natural lake, reservoir etc.). This is just the right time that you will determine where the fish can be found and the time when you can decide on the right lure to be used.

This may seem like a lot of thinking to do on a day of recreating. But of course, the more time you spend on the water, practicing these techniques starts to become second nature and you'll spend much less time organizing expensive lures that don't seem to work. This is already a big help for you anyway.

Remember that there is no substitute for experience, as the saying goes, and there is no opportunity better than fishing to prove that maxim true. So the next time you are in the tackle shop, stop for a minute and think about what you are doing, do not do things without even thinking about it.

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