Fishing tip of the week

Fishing Tip of the Week

Wednesday, 04 December 2024 09:22

A Few Habits of Big Bass
by Mike Gerry

As we approach winter and the spring the bigger fish will focus on certain habits that will repeat themselves from their many years of surviving the fishing pressure that today’s lakes receive all over the country.
The one thing you can count on is that bigger female bass become routine in their search for food, they don’t stray far from their protection areas that they are use too and they are very routine in their feeding habits. Meaning they generally feed at dawn and dusk and don’t stray

far for food. They have a very regimented schedule just like the older generation of today has in our world. Meaning you should be able to find them routinely in their protected environment and they should be stacked up together just like a coffee shop full of old folks around the same table.

Big bass live in the most protected areas of the lake, they like the heaviest cover, they stay away from other predators, especially bigger ones and they like creek channels, weed edges and grass line breaks that drop into deep water for protection. One thing that I have also noticed is that the bigger bass like contour breaks that they can hide up against like inside bends where contours become grass lines that they can back up to for protection. Old roadbeds that have turns and depth change also become great preferred staging places for big fish.

Lastly big bass like big size food sources, meaning that the bigger baits emulating the food source generally catch the bigger fish. “Big baits, big fish” is an old saying that has lots of merit and proof over the years that it is true. Just work an 8-inch swim bait or a big glide bait and see the difference in the size of the fish you catch with them. The downsize of course comes in the numbers game where the bigger baits limit the amount of fish you catch but increase the size of them.
Habits are everything learn them and become a big bass fisherman!
Captain Mike