Ideal measurements range from 3-4 inches up. What matters in this type of fishing is not so much the length of the bait, but its volume. In fact, the more voluminous it is, the more it is priming.
As for colors, dark baits with opaque waters are used, while light ones with transparent waters are used. However, less noticeable shades always give excellent results even in low light situations, such as at several meters deep or in highly intricate areas, with poor penetration of sunlight.
In these last conditions, the models internally enriched with reflective sequins of yellow, red or blue color give a higher yield. These colors emit a greater refraction without however exceeding in the brightness, which could, if excessive, frighten the fish.
Here are the possible recoveries:
Silicone:
One of the most functional technical solutions to use silicones correctly consists in recalling them near the bottom, making them perform jumps, but maintaining a very low feed speed. Perform all these operations by raising and lowering the top of the barrel, with always irregular movements, and keeping the line stretched to instantly perceive even the most slender touches.
Very important is the stop on the seabed between calls. Or you can drag the bait to the bottom with a slow recovery, which on sand and silt bottoms allows you to raise clouds that signal the bait to the bass. Also in this case, the stops are deadly: keep the line a little ' in bando, so the fish does not perceive excessive resistance and gives us the time necessary to bring to sign the ferrata.
As an alternative to dragging, we can make leaps forward to the artificial simply in small tears, always interspersed by pauses, moving sideways the top of the barrel, but going from top to bottom. If the technique of dragging to the bottom does not give good results, this is the solution to try. Flipping is performed by the boat or the donut and consists of a presentation of the bait near the spots (maximum 4-5 meters) in cloudy or veiled waters.
The fishing action: the launch is carried out in a pendulum and, once the bait has entered, you will let it sink for a few seconds, trying to make it pulsate with wrist movements. If in the phase of fall you do not feel any touch, you will start the recovery, starting the bait from the bottom in small strokes, until you get it under our feet. Very important is the contact with the bait through the management of the wire, which must be held in the left hand, so as to warn even the most legged touches.
Depending on the activity of the bass we will regulate our recoveries. With active fish, more vivid lure will be used, while with the more apathetic ones you will tend to keep more time on the bait at the bottom, so as to give time to the fish more suspicious of being able to suck the bait. In some cases they try to scratch the bottom of the bait so as to create mud clouds that attract the bass, making him think that there are invertebrates looking for food.
Pitching
Also this technique is performed from the boat or from a donut. In some cases it can also be adopted from the ground. Unlike flipping, this technique is adopted in clearer and deeper waters, and with rare obstacles and easier to penetrate. The distance is greater from the spot, due to clear water, and goes up to about 14 meters.
The fishing action: the recovery technique will be the same as in flipping, even if the greater distance will ask the fisherman for more attention in the ups and downs and in the horizontal recovery phase. Therefore great importance has the management of the wire, in order to be able to ferrare to the first touch or in case of abnormal burdens.
Skipping
It consists of a throwing technique that aims to penetrate the most impenetrable obstacles by making the bait perform numerous jumps in the water, so as not to scare the fish. In this way, the bait will be more priming, and the possibility of being able to enter the heart of the cover will allow us to tease the most hidden bass.
Compact baits like tubes work very well. If the bite does not happen in the first few seconds, you will move to the recovery phase by flipping or pitching.
Wacky rig
It is a trigger that is done in case of apathetic fish. Hooks with eyelet, anti-algae (mosquito) or lead heads are used, and the bait is impaled in half about. The most widely used baits are straight worms like senko.
In some cases insert leads are used which have an elongated conical shape and which must be inserted inside the bait, to ensure a more natural descent.
The fishing action: throw the bait into the water letting it sink and recall it from time to time, to make the bait look like a twitching worm. Once we get to the bottom, we'll make more calls and let it slip back to our station.
Drop shot or down shot
They are similar frames that vary by trigger. The first is to mount with a Palomar knot a hook with offset about 15-45 centimeters from the end of the wire, where a lead with cylindrical or ball clips will be applied depending on the bottom.
In the down shot instead the frame is the same, but the hook used will be a normal one with eyelet.
With these frames you can also make the wacky rig. These techniques are used in periods when fish are apathetic (summer and winter).
The fishing action: it is carried out by means of recoveries, in small tears or by means of constant recovery interspersed with more or less long breaks.
Minnow for bass
With sinking minnows, slow recoveries are performed with sudden accelerates of little duration; if floating, even some breaks are broken, allowing the artificial to climb up a little, perhaps with some short ripping. Top water: for this technique are provided Floating minnow (prop bait, popper and grub without lead). Recovery is slow and with tears. In addition there are also buzzbait that are similar to spinnerbait and require constant recovery.
Spinnerbait for bass
With very active bass, you make a recovery fast enough, while with apathetic fish you make a slow recovery and with tears.
Wavy from bass
The undulating does not have a real movement of its own , it must be animated by the fisherman. There are various ways of recovery:
- Constant recovery with firm rod and only change of speed with Reel.
- Constant recovery with 90 degree rapid barrel recalls. After this operation, you must let the artificial fall back for a few seconds, then give a few crank strokes and start again.
- Recovery can also take place by alternating the various ways: the important thing is to move the undulating so as to intrigue the fish and push it to attack.
Winter Bass
In winter the bass (also called Trout perch or mouthpieces) take refuge in the deep holes of the lakes and are threatened with jig and spinnerbait made to work by shaving the bottom. As a trailer, rubbers flavored with scent (aromas to fish, shrimp, garlic, etc.), or pork rind are used. This is to make our baits more priming, so that the bass can hold the bait as long as possible in the mouth, allowing us to feel better the eats that in this period are very delicate.
The recovery is straightening the bottom and can be linear or torn: the important thing is that they are maneuvered very slowly.