So you want to find the best place to find bass fishing in the US? Chances are real good you are not alone in this quest. The best bass fishing has to be "where ever the BASS are biting". And that is exactly where we are going to point you to in this article.
There as many theories on where and how to fish for bass as there are bass anglers. We are going to break down the top factors for increasing your chances of catching bass.
How and where to fish for BASS depends on the time of year, the weather conditions in which you wish to fish, the type of bass for which you intend to fish, and a thousand and one other variables. The best advice available is that there are some great bass fishing locations in various states throughout the US, and based on your personal tastes, you just have to fish a few of them and find one that is convenient and works well for your personal preferences and fishing styles.
One place might yield great results at one particular time of year and be virtually dead the rest of the time, and likewise with many other variables, but the following list of places and techniques for bass fishing will always give you good, solid results within specific situations.
Your first step should be to determine some basics about where to find the bass in any given body of water. A few facts will almost always hold true no matter where you are fishing. First, bass are found naturally throughout the continent of the United States. Largemouth bass prefer still water, and smallmouth bass like rough moving water.
Your first step should be to determine some basics about where to find the bass in any given body of water. A few facts will almost always hold true no matter where you are fishing. First, bass are found naturally throughout the continent of the United States. Largemouth bass prefer still water, and smallmouth bass like rough moving water.
All bass like weedy areas, and you can often find them in areas providing lots of cover. If you find an area rich with lily pads or other plant cover, especially on a cloudy day, you are quite likely to find bass there as well.
Bass may be successfully fished all year, even through the ice up north, but the best temperature for catching bass is between 55 and 82 degrees. Bass tend to like a bait that is lively, which triggers their instictual strike response. Whether it is a live bait like a minnow or tadpole or artificial bait like plastic worms, or brightly colored lures, bass strike at anything that catches their attention, so take advantage of their natural response to movement.
During the spawn, using a lizard lure around their spawning nest, will guickly get an aggressive reponse and strike, as the BASS believes it is protecting its nest from an egg robbing preditor.
Bass tend to react more slowly and become much less active during cold weather, so if you are fishing in colder temperatures, give your fish a little more time to react to the bait. Simply reel your bait in a little more slowly than you would on a warmer day.
If you are fishing on sunny days, get your bait down deeper. Bass tend to retreat to lower water columns when the sun it bright and high in the sky. If you fish in areas that provide plenty of cover and adjust your depth, you should have better luck during mid day fishing.
If you take these bits of advice on fishing techniques and apply just a bit of common sense, you will find catching fish is as much a learning experience as it is luck. Picking a great locations such as Dixon Lake near San Diego, California also helps in catching fish, especially if you are looking for a trophy size largemouth BASS. The 4th largest bass of all times was caught on Dixon Lake.
Since the year 2001, Lake Dixon has produced record sized bass. In fact, out of the fifteen largest bass of all time, four of them have come from Dixon Lake. These types of records can not be argued against. So, if you are looking for record size catches, it is safe to assert that Lake Dixon has to be in the running as one of the greatest place to catch bass in the US.
Next month, we will explore another great location for catching record size BASS as well as possible catching record amounts too.
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