Largemouth fishing tips

[Yax]

I've been using some 4" black plastic worms from Walmart with a spinning tail. Carolina rigged it and it works pretty good at the lakes but I can't seem to do very well with Spinners or crankbaits. I followed advice from different websites but still, the worms work the best. Even tried spinners with pork frogs, still not as good as the plastics. Right now I'm sticking to plastics but I would like to learn to use the other lures. Anyone have any suggestions on how to use other lures for bass fishing?

 

[MichaelD]

People with big, fat, large mouths (like me) should not go fishing. It scares away the fish and annoys the quiet, small-mouthed fisherman.


Hahaha! I crack me up.


Sorry, no help here...but a bump!

 

[jemcam]

Get some live shiners, large, about 4" to 6" long, and put them on a large hook, hooked through the lips. Put a swivel about 2 feet above that, and then put it on a large bobber about three or four feet above the hook. Troll very slowly with the bail open on your reel. When the bobber goes under, count to 10 before setting the hook. The bass grab the fish by the tail usually, so the hook won't be in their mouths right away.

It works better than anything artificial, but when I've fished in tournaments, you can't use live bait, so I've found the purple worms and wine colored worms, about 6 inches with a screw tail work the best too.

Good luck!

 

[aircooled]

The kid across the street just caught a 2ft long large mouth in the neighborhood park pond with yellow corn.

 

[human2k]

Seems to me that with the advent of x86-64 that AMD and Microsoft ought to team up to try some new wrinkles with memory management. Instead of strictly setting memory management inside of each program with the OS loosely arranging the big picture, why not develop some new tricks for it? Seems like so many tasks are optimized for memory to be either serial or parrallel in nature. Imagine if the OS could address two separate memory memory types to optimize these differences. Add in motherboards with memory banks 0 and 1 supporting 200MHz DDR RAM while memory banks 2 and 3 would be for PC1200 RDRAM devices. The user would ultimately decide whether he wanted to load up on one memory type or the other, all the while enjoying the benefits of using each type of RAM. Perhaps this would be little more complicated than current dual-channel chipsets, where the chipset already switches back and forth between two separate memory channels to feed the main vein so to speak; the trick is apparently all in the buffering.

Now this idea isn't quite the NUMA approach that people have brought up in the past. And it would require support from BOTH hardware (memory and chipset) manufacturers and software (OS and applications) programmers to get it to work. What other hurdles do you engineers out there see in a design like this?

 

[aircooled]

Originally posted by: human2k
Seems to me that with the advent of x86-64 that AMD and Microsoft ought to team up to try some new wrinkles with memory management. Instead of strictly setting memory management inside of each program with the OS loosely arranging the big picture, why not develop some new tricks for it? Seems like so many tasks are optimized for memory to be either serial or parrallel in nature. Imagine if the OS could address two separate memory memory types to optimize these differences. Add in motherboards with memory banks 0 and 1 supporting 200MHz DDR RAM while memory banks 2 and 3 would be for PC1200 RDRAM devices. The user would ultimately decide whether he wanted to load up on one memory type or the other, all the while enjoying the benefits of using each type of RAM. Perhaps this would be little more complicated than current dual-channel chipsets, where the chipset already switches back and forth between two separate memory channels to feed the main vein so to speak; the trick is apparently all in the buffering.

Now this idea isn't quite the NUMA approach that people have brought up in the past. And it would require support from BOTH hardware (memory and chipset) manufacturers and software (OS and applications) programmers to get it to work. What other hurdles do you engineers out there see in a design like this?

And this has to do with fishing how???

(I know it's just a mis-post, just giving you a hard time....)

 

[fonzinator]

Originally posted by: cheapbidder01
I've been using some 4" black plastic worms from Walmart with a spinning tail. Carolina rigged it and it works pretty good at the lakes but I can't seem to do very well with Spinners or crankbaits. I followed advice from different websites but still, the worms work the best. Even tried spinners with pork frogs, still not as good as the plastics. Right now I'm sticking to plastics but I would like to learn to use the other lures. Anyone have any suggestions on how to use other lures for bass fishing?

Don't waste your time with anything else...you're already using the BEST articifcal lure there is!! Here's my technique for fishing plastic worms...I prefer a 4" (6" max), black or purple ripple-tailed worm. I rig it weedless and weightless. Throw it into submerged grass beds, under docks, around structrure - anywhere! It's weedless so you usually won't snag anything. Anyway...throw that worm out there, let it sink for a few seconds. Close your bail, and crank EXTREMELY slowly - only fast enough to get that tail moving. You want your line to float on the surface of the water. Just keep your eye on the line...when you see it go taught, count to 2 and set the hook!! I've caught largemouth of every size using this technique and it is a BLAST!! This is my favorite way to fish largemouth by far.

Another of my favorite lures is a beetle spin. Use a 1" or 2" black, curly-tailed grub with a round jig head. Rig a small single spinner onto the jig head. Fish this in 5 to 8' of water with a medium retrieve. Throw it at structure (but not into grass beds due to the exposed hook). Fish the edges of beds or over the top if they are deep enough. I've caught TONS of largemouth using this, as well as many other random surprises. This lure will just about catch everything in the lake.

I always keep two rods rigged with these two lures and I will fish them all day if they are working. A third rod is used for random guesses out of the tackle box when the worm or beetle spin aren't working. All in all, nothing I've ever had outfishes these two lures. If the fish aren't biting on the worm or beetle spin, chances are they won't bite anything.

Give smaller crankbaits a try when fishing in 5-10' of water - especially on a point or where the bank drops off steeply. I've had great success with cranks. Stay away from brightly colored neon cranks (these don't imitate ANYTHING the fish ever see). Instead, go for darker cranks with natural tones - black, browns, greys, even silver. These will catch largemouth and other surprises as well.

<-----Wishes he was fishing right now.