Tips About Fishing

It has been a long winter and you are ready to hit the lake for some spring walleye fishing.
Let us get started with some basics for the amateur angler to try. The first thing we need to do is get you the angler into some warm clothing because it is going to be cold out there.

Now that that is taken care of dressing you warmly, let us talk about some of the tackle you will require. I would recommend a six-foot rod and reel combo for the average amateur fisherman to start out.  Some jigs, plastic grub tails, and some live minnows will work well. The crank bait or spinner bait with a slow retrieve can produce fish as well, but let us stick to the basics for now.

I have caught many walleye using a jig and minnow with a slow retrieve, bouncing along a rocky bottom at this time of year. The spawn is over and the water is still very cold except near the shorelines where the males will still be near the spawn beds.

These fish will relate to just about any fresh new weeds you can find in deeper water during the brightness of the day.  I like to use a slip bobber arrangement with and live bait at this time.

A boat is helpful, but not required if you can fish near the shore at the lake. The best time of the day for feeding walleye near the shore seems to be near dusk and dawn.  You can even have a good amount of success when fishing from docks, piers or shorelines in the early spring.

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Largemouth bass are predators that can explode on a floating plug in muddy waters or after dark. They can easily find  there prey under all conditions without using sight or smell.

Largemouth bass utilize their full range of senses but hearing is the most acute sense they have. Bass can detect sounds through their lateral line up to about one hundred feet which is much farther than sight.

If you are not familiar with what a “lateral line” is, it is a series of very sensitive nerve ending that extend down both sides of the fish from the gills to tail. It is capable of detecting pressure waves that are created by objects moving through the water. They can detect sounds from a inner ear that are at a distance of more than twenty feet but use the lateral line for closer targets.

The sounds  and vibrations in the water travel four times faster than in the air. The sounds will travel somewhere around five thousand feet per second.  This makes the rattle type bass lures detectable for great distances.

Some of the sounds that a largemouth bass may hear is clicking sounds made by crayfish and many other noises made by moving bait fish.  Bass will also flare their gills creating a sound to vend off  predators from spawning beds as reported by scuba divers.

The negative effects of sound could be you dropping something in your boat or the
dropping of an anchor. The anchor can send sounds and spook fish up to a hundred yards
away. Electric motors at times will also spook nearby fish. If you are using one try not to
turn it off and on often which will cause erratic sound waves.

Just the oppose can also occur if the waves created by passing boat traffic drives the bait fish toward shore.  So you have to conclude that sound can be good or bad.

When attempting to catch bass a few good rules to follow are:
1. Keep boat noise to a minimum
2. Use top water lures that make surface noise sounds.
3. Never just drop your anchor overboard, lower instead.
4. Use rattle or spinner type baits cast from a distance to your target area.

The largemouth bass has exceptional sensory abilities by using its sight, smell, hearing and lateral line sound vibration  to survive in its underwater world.  Funny how they have some of the same needs we do, they need to eat.

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