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Grex Ing Item 59: Bass Fishing Techniques [linked]
Entered by jacoby on Sun Jun 9 19:26:24 UTC 1996:

Bass Fishing,
I live near a small,clear Northern Michigan lake and have had spotty success
in getting fish to bite.  Does anyone have any techniques that seem to get
good results?  Or does anybody just want to talk about fishing?  Please do!
Jake

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#1 of 3 by mcpoz on Mon Jun 10 00:36:04 1996:

I have a bass pond on my land.  I have had success in getting the "lunkers"
by 3 techniques.  They are listed below in order of their liklihood of success
in my pond:

1.  Use a weedless rubber frog and toss it on shore or at the thickest weeds
    near shore.  Pull it with a slow, nervous jerky motion over the top of
    the weeds.  As it comes into clear spaces, make it swim to the opposite
    side of the clear space and move slightly before it climbs onto the weeds.

    Use variations of this, such as along the clear water right next to the
    weeds.  Also, I have caught some of the biggest so close to shore that
    you can't imagine such a big fish being so close to shore.

2.  Use a weedless plastic night crawler.  This is the type with the stainless
    steel loop that engages the hook barb.  Alternate between purple worms
    with white stripes, and fluorescent with black stripes.  Toss this on to
    shore and pull slowly toward clear water.  Once in a while, you will get
    a hit on the surface.  After it hits clear water, let it fall v-e-r-y 
    slowly (no sinker).  Very slowly move your pole from horizontal to
    vertical to move the worm toward you.  Watch closely for the "hang" of
    the line and the position where it enters the water.  If the slack 
    moves out of the line, or if the point where it enters the water starts
    to move sideways, set the hook.  Most of the time, it will be a weed, but
    big bass will hit this lure extremely softly.  They must mouth it for a
    few seconds before they decide what to do with it.  

3.  In open water, I have used a variety of lures with success.  None as sure
    as the above two items.  Small spinner type lures generally get small bass
    which fight like mad, jump out of the water, and all that stuff.  Big
    lures, "fat rap" or standard "rapella" seem to be the most productive to
    me.

4.  CATCH AND RELEASE TO ENSURE THEY ARE AROUND FOR TOMORROW.

#2 of 3 by scott on Mon Jun 10 01:29:21 1996:

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#3 of 3 by robh on Wed Jun 12 15:06:48 1996:

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