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</html>";s:4:"text";s:30721:"For that reason, we often use surface plugs to locate fish for us, then change to other baits like soft plastics, Bass Assassins, spinnerbaits, and gold spoons to catch our fish.&quot; There are numerous baits on the market that will catch fish in the spring months. From an L.A. cop who came within ounces of besting the record to an Alabaman who has lost his marriage and his daughter to this pursuit, Burke takes readers along for the ride in this legendary race. Now there are a lot of theories about why bass, particularly spring bass hit lizards. He fishes with and visits the laboratories of famous ichthyologists; he takes instruction in the making of shad darts from a master of the art; and he cooks shad in a variety of ways, delectably explained at the end of the book. Best Craw baits For Bass. Photo: Laurie Tisdale. In dingy water, dense colors are the rule, and two-color worms with bright tails offer added visibility. When the bass transition into their post-spawn phase, focus on vertical cover near the mouths of the spawning pockets—this is where you’ll find some big females. Best Spring Bass Fishing Lures. Soft plastic lizards are great baits for largemouth bass. Because bedding bass are very aggressive towards egg-robbing salamanders, many anglers think of lizards as a spring bait and forget them the rest of the year. This fish and many others were caught on an overcast winter day with frequent sleet and snow squalls. Given the variables associated with how the fish act based on the time of day, season, and water depth, it&#x27;s probably best to invest in a variety of lower-cost striper lures like bucktails and spoons, a few inexpensive soft plastic jerkbaits, and a few reliable big guys like a parachute jig. Cypress trees, at first glance, seem like Mother Nature&#x27;s gift to bass fisherman. Throw this thing out around Lily pads, grass lines, or reeds in pre-spawn or spawning flats, and just let it sink to the bottom. The bite: Most of your bites will occur as the worm is falling to the bottom on slack line. Best Buzzbaits For Bass. Good color options include Alabama, black red glitter, green pumpkin . The Jig N&#x27; Pig. These jigs most resemble a crayfish so that is the soft plastic I typically use for the body. Culprit tequila shade and red shade will catch more bass than any other plastic bait besides zoom super flutes and zoom plastic lizards and I guarantee it, Copyright © 2021 Fishmasters | Privacy | Terms, Ever since I was a little kids, my tackle box is incomplete without a few tried and true plastic worms. The drop shot is an essential set up for fishing clear, deep water. Best Topwater Lure For Bass. Found insideThese diminutive lures are especially deadly during spring in clear, rocky lakes, when bass are feeding on crayfish ... In general, the slim profile of the willowleaf is designed to perform best at high speeds, which allow it to deliver ... The Ribbon Tail worm has been a workhorse soft plastic for anglers targeting big bass over the last 50 years. Probing a brush hog around these areas can often score anglers large numbers of bass. Soft plastics are a wide category of lures, and include soft plastic worms, grubs, crawfish, bugs, and other forms of soft plastic lures. It comes in 9 enticing colors. It has a wide range of uses, whether fished weightless, shakey-head . Even if not, crawfish soft plastics provide a lively action that will continually trigger strikes regardless of what the bass primarily feeding on. Found inside – Page 53So in naming the world's 50 best fishing lures, I know we're asking for a fight. But check the choices thoughtfully. Whether you target bass or walleyes, trout or stripers and more, these are lures that actually work. 2. Cold water bass fishermen have used this combination for decades with plenty of success. In early Spring, the preferred method to . It is essentially a tube shaped like a bait fish with a paddle tale. One of the key component to any good bass fishing presentation is its lure and bait color. Some baits take on the look of things found in nature – fish, bugs, crawfish, or amphibians. How to fish it: Rigging a floating worm on a weightless Texas rig is our preferred method throughout the spring. Baitfish will have all year to grow at this point, so the bass are used to bigger meals. The best way to catch bass in the spring or at least in my opinion is power fishing. Like other high-quality Zoom Baits, this lure is impregnated with salt so that fish can bite for longer to improve hooksets. I just like to simplify things as much as I can when fishing. This time of year, no one gets more largemouth action than the good ol&#x27; boys in the South. They’ll produce all year long in many parts of the country, but they often shine brightest in the middle of the spawning period when the water temperatures are in the 60-degree range. Itâs made with high quality components, so it will last and it is sure to trigger strikes. The legendary Yamasenko has caught more fish than many other lure bodies put together. You’ll rig these baits on a Texas rig with anywhere from a 1/8 to a 1/2-ounce weight and simply let them fall to the bottom. The beauty of this soft plastic is in its simplicity, and it really gets bass to bite. Since spring is looming right around the corner, let&#x27;s look at spring applications for these fantastic four-legged creature baits. If you burn a plastic swimbait back to you, it will swim near the waters surfaces, creating a very effective topwater bait. Whether it be on a Crankbait , topwater. Ask An Angler: Why Do Fish Jump Out Of The Water? Crawfish soft plastics are a popular lure for bass. Here are the true stories behind the beloved characters fictionalized in A River Runs through It, including the Reverend Maclean, the patriarch who introduced the family to fishing; Norman, who balanced a life divided between literature and ... It is a soft stick bait with a very subtle movement as it falls freely through the water. You can find thousands of lures to choose from, including hard baits, soft plastics, jerkbaits, spinnerbaits, and other swim jig type lures. Best Smallmouth Bass Lures. Zoom 6 inch Lizard Soft Bait Lure. An absolute springtime staple, the lizard will catch big bass, small bass and everything in between. The salt can help weigh them down, and also helps so that fish donât tear off a piece of your soft plastic lure and escape. Soft plastics are inexpensive and great for catching bass. Top 5 Best Bass Baits for Pond Hopping. Popular lures like, Lake Tahoe Fishing: Everything You Need To Know. Don&#x27;t get caught up in the little intricacies of color this early in the season. Most are fished with weedless hooks perfect for getting bass in those hiding spots like weeds and lily pads. Zoom uses a Salt mixture in their baits that makes a fish hold on for that extra time that gives you more hook ups. Favorite Lake or River Kansas:Largemouth-La Cygne, Smallmouth-Milford, Spots-Wilson State Lake. by Cody Younciak on June 22, 2018. . Found inside – Page 90Try purple and black in fairly large sizes. soft plastics and spinner baits worked deep and slow can do well. ... Look at sidewaters and sloughs off the main river flow for some good spring bass fishing. Buzz baits and prop baits are ... When it comes to rigging soft-plastic brush hogs, there are two methods that shine, including both Texas rigged and Carolina rigged. In the Fall, try throwing swimbaits on jigheads or Alabama Rigs to target fish feeding heavily before winter. The pack of 10 fluke baits can be fished on a . The Berkley PowerBait Power Jerk Shad has a great action, and is meant to be jerked or twitch to trigger strikes. As the Yamamoto Senko falls horizontally, you can see its signature side-to-side action.         6-keys: sports/wired2fish//// My first lunker bass was caught using one of these classic black plastic worms. Today&#x27;s anglers have available a huge variety of soft plastic bait options available to them. The best part about these worms is they perform in just about any body of water. Their soft bodies feel more like real prey to bass, so they can often work better than hard lures. The picture above shows a swim jig with a crawfish body. In warmer water, in hard-fished ponds, and in places where bass are finicky, a soft-plastic jerkbait can be a top producer. It’s the best way to trigger big bites. When using a drop shot in the late winter/early spring I like to use a small Fluke style plastic to mimic a struggling shad. If you cover water and stay shallow, they’ll result in lots of exciting fish catches. Zoom Mag II’s are a large worm that works well for pitchin and Flippin in the thick stuff. All Berkley PowerBait lures have Berkleyâs signature scent, made with attractants to lure in fish from a distance. A weedless soft plastic popper that looks like a dying baitfish, the G-Pop, designed by Jason Misner, will perform in a variety of environments, especially where snags are an issue. All of these rules apply for saltwater fish as well. The Berkley PowerBait Power Worm is a fantastic soft plastic worm for bass, sure to trigger strikes. If you live in warmer parts of the country you&#x27;re probably already seeing the beginning of the spawn. Clear water allows for more light penetration, allowing these lighter, more translucent colors to blend in seamlessly with the wary bass&#x27; environment. Line starts running away with your worm in a big bass mouth. Best Soft Plastics for RI Spring Striped Bass Capt.  Tubes – Smallmouth candy and a low key killer large mouth flipping bait (just ask Seith Feider). Medium-sized plastic swimbaits work wonders for fooling bass, pike, and aggressive walleye. Weâve compiled the best soft baits for bass fishing, including soft plastic worms, craws, swimbaits, jerk shads, and more. This is the time of the year to catch a double- digit bass. Since Gary’s invented the ”Stick Bait”, almost every bass fishing soft plastic company has developed their version. This can make it a bit more prone to snags, but it’s an excellent option when the bass are holding on very specific pieces of cover. The most popular method you’ll see anglers fishing a ribbon tail worm will be on a Texas Rig. Green Pumpkin Crawfish Soft Plastic. Catch Bass on Cypress Trees. BEST SOFT PLASTIC BAITS FOR BASS Gary Yamamoto Senko. Furthermore, these bass fishing lures allow you to fish all situations. Good color options include Alabama, black red glitter, green pumpkin . No matter the temperature, soft plastics catch bass time and time again. Soft Plastics (56 . My favorite spinnerbait for slow-rolling in the early spring is a 1/2-ounce model with a single gold or silver Colorado blade which produces plenty of flash and vibration for bass to detect in the dirty water. Newly updated for 2016, the Northern Indiana Fishing Map Guide is a thorough, easy-to-use collection of detailed contour lake maps, fish stocking and survey data, and the best fishing spots and tips from area experts. Each of these rigs worked correctly and paired with the right finesse, soft plastic will catch you fish. The allure of using soft baits for bass is manifold. In this brilliant portrait of the oceans’ unlikely hero, H. Bruce Franklin shows how menhaden have shaped America’s national—and natural—history, and why reckless overfishing now threatens their place in both. As spring turns to summer, focusing on these deeper water structures is often vital to catching more bass. 5 Proven Tips for Catching Big Bass in The Spring. The action of this lure, however, is still sure to attract bass and other fish. While these worms can also be fished on a weightless Texas rig, we have a lot of success wacky rigging them in the spring; in other words, we hook them right through the middle to create a unique parabolic action as it falls. Another great Berkley PowerBait lure, the Berkley PowerBait Power Jerk Shad is a soft jerkbait. As spring approaches, they become especially effective when bass head to shallow water. Love it or hate it, bed fishing is a great way to catch the biggest bass of the year. When the water starts to warm in spring, making bass active in the shallows, the single best bait for bass in a pond is a spinnerbait. The Keitech Fat Swing Impact Swimbait comes in over 40 colors and lengths ranging from 2.8â to 7.8â. When you need a softer approach to lure in skittish bass, the Zoom Magnum Worm is the way to go. Its soft body will help the fish hold on to the bait longer. Once it reaches the bottom, make very small, upward twitches with your rod tip and let it fall on slack line again. If it&#x27;s lying tight enough to the plastic, it&#x27;s still virtually 100 percent weedless. Another soft plastic from Zoom Baits, the Zoom Bait Brush Hog is a creature-style soft plastic, which means it doesnât exactly mimic any specific prey. In this book, "How to Bass Fish Like a Pro," Kevin VanDam will explain how he catches bass consistently, how he fishes all 12 months of the year, and in the bonus chapters, which are videos of VanDam talking directly to you, he will tell ... Offers tips, techniques, and tactics from the top competitors and elite touring professionals on how to choose the right tackle and locate fish on drop-offs, ledges, points, and flats for more successful angling. These baits have a funny name because, well, they don’t really look like anything. Examples are grape, black or blue baits with chartreuse, red or orange tails. Rene Letourneau Top Soft Plastics for spring stripers Rhode Island Light Tackle Charter Captain Rene Leto. Skip them underneath shallow dock platforms and walkways, underneath overhangs and even into fallen trees. Gary Yamamoto Yamasenko - The Best Bass Worm Ever We believe the best soft plastic fishing lure is the Gary Yamamoto Yamasenko. How to fish it: Because wacky-rigged stick worms have such a natural, non-threatening profile and action, the worm does most of the work which makes them very easy to fish. These are the best lures for catching bass, trout, muskies, crappies, and saltwater fish. Soft plastics are inexpensive and great for catching bass. A small tackle box and a few bags of soft plastics make you more mobile and adaptable in almost any situation when bank fishing. And for that reason, I’ve broken down my five favorite soft plastic bait styles. Don’t get in a feeling contest with the bass because as soon as they feel tension, they’ll try to spit your bait. . Found inside – Page 243Soft jerkbaits are at their best in spring, when bass are in a negative mood following spawning. But the lures will work any time the fish are in shallow water. They are not particularly good deep-water baits; weighting them to sink ... Tough fishing can be too much fishing pressure or unfavorable conditions like weather, clarity, or time of day. Arguably the most popular and user-friendly soft plastic bait on the market today is the soft plastic stick bait. Targets: It sounds a bit lame, but any shallow cover that looks “fishy” is a perfect spot to pitch or flip your Texas-rigged lizard. It comes in a wide range of colors and sizes, and is popular among bass anglers. Go to any fishing store or scroll through any online tackle shop (shout out Karl’s), and you’ll see an endless supply of soft plastic baits. Targets: Vertical cover should always be a prime target when you’re fishing with a wacky-rigged stick worm; especially when you suspect the bass to be suspended.         originalDevice:  deviceType:desktop, a lot of success wacky rigging them in the spring, They allow you to cover water at a super-fast pace. Soft-Plastic Baits. The bite: When you feel a “tick” or “thump” on the end of your line, lower your rod tip and set the hook hard. There will come a time when bass will switch off that ghost craw pattern and bite heavily on orange or bright solid reds. Hollow Swimbaits are made of soft plastic just like the worms and tube baits which most anglers already use. Huddleston Delux 8 . There are so many to choose from, and all of them can have a place in your arsenal, depending on how you like to fish them. Depending on how you rig your soft plastics, they can be weedless and therefore work well in areas with heavy cover. Don’t be afraid to rig up big baits during the Fall. This soft plastic bait looks like a creepy crawler, and it has been successfully used to catch bass by many anglers. The Berkley PowerBait Power Worm comes in a large variety of colors and a range of sizes. The first &#x27;stick bait&#x27; was the Senko designed by Gary Yamamoto which was inspired by a Bic Pen. This selection of bass fishing lures will cover just about anything that you&#x27;ll come across in Florida. Largemouth, smallmouth and Spotted or Kentucky Bass are proverbial &quot;pigs&quot; when it comes to eating habits as many of us have experience by hooking fish half the size . Cold-blooded animals don&#x27;t expend metabolic energy maintaining their internal temperature. Confusion is often associated with selecting soft plastics, but sorting through the wide variety of shapes and sizes isn&#x27;t the problem - it&#x27;s picking colors that&#x27;ll drive . Rigging flukes on a jig head is another effective multi-species technique. Found inside – Page 199Jigs, crankbaits and soft plastic baits are good choices for catching smallmouths (soft plastics cannot be used in the ... Anglers can also expect more abundant numbers of black bass in this stretch of river due to the spring and early ... . Targets: Creature baits can catch fish around any type of shallow cover throughout the spring; they’re a great way to cover water quickly because rest assured—bass will bite them if you put it around them. The most common soft plastics include lizards, tubes, stickbaits, soft jerkbaits, creature baits and soft craws. Buy from Amazon. Soft plastic or a jerkbait Smallies can really put up a battle. Found inside – Page 32The best method for locating any schoolies here in the spring to fall is to drift with the current down the channel with baits, and pepper the water between the boat and the banks with deep running lures (Kastmasters are prime here). But they’re also a good target-oriented bait when the bass are fairly aggressive. Best Smallmouth Lure Overall: Zoom UltraVibe Craw Best Soft Plastic Lure: Berkley Powerbait Tube Best Topwater Lure: Whopper Plopper Best Hard Body Lure: Strike King KVD Jerk Bait Best Blade Bait: Heddon Rattling Sonar This is why so many people are drawn to this fish. After the worm hits the water, let it fall to the bottom on totally slack line. And finally, the biggest swimbaits have become increasingly popular for targeting musky and trophy pike. Best Soft plastic worms For Bass. Favorite Bass: All three. Other backwater baits, like silversides, smelt and sand eels, are well matched by thin-profile soft-plastics like the Skinny Hogy and the pre-rigged Tsunami Holographic Split-Tail Minnow. The bait is fished in any kind of structure, shallow or deep. Some soft plastics have a bigger bulkier size with big swimming tails. These lures now have a new coffee scent as well to lure in bass. Best Full Body Soft Swimbaits. When the bait reaches the bottom, slowly lift your rod tip to the 10 o’clock position. However, both the Yum Lizard and Berkley PowerBait Lizard are also productive baits. An assortment of soft-plastic baits with a range of rigging options can help you cover the water column and match what the bass are eating. They’re relatively inexpensive, they’re easy to rig and surprisingly simple to fish. I will also use finesse soft plastic crawfish baits on spinning rods when fishing with a shaky head or drop shot. The Zoom Super Speed Crawfish soft plastic is 3-3/4 inches in length. Best Spinnerbaits For Bass. The Berkley PowerBait Power Worm is made with strong components, and the manufacturer brags that fish hold on 18 times longer. Jigs, tubes, brush hogs and plastics flipped and pitched into the buck brush will produce your better fish. Make long casts parallel to the shoreline and any edges—grass lines, stump rows, etc.—and “dance” the worm near the water’s surface. He tips the jig with a soft plastic trailer. Use casting gear with this technique to help pull fish from vegetation. Cook fillets for one to two minutes each or until they flake with a fork. Regardless of their looks, they’re proven producers throughout all phases of the spring spawning period. Arguably the most popular and user-friendly soft plastic bait on the market today is the soft plastic stick bait. You can also thread a swimbait on the back of a jig and fish it shallow grass areas or around docks. First, they are very effective, so anglers love to throw soft plastics to lure in bigger bass. Spring time is soft plastic lure time. Free-flowing tentacles at the other end add to the action, and the traditional Senko-style middle gives fish a great place to bite. Weedless style bass jigs are another good choice. I prefer to have the hook come through the plastic and lay just above the surface of the bait. In Fishing the Roanoke Valley, M. W. Smith, a professional outdoor guide and author of Fishing the New River Valley, discusses the fish species common to the streams of the Roanoke Valley, from tiny native trout to monster-sized striped ... These soft baits mimic live bait like real worms, and can be extremely effective when bass fishing. White Bass The great thing about a jig head and grub lure for Speckled Trout is that it&#x27;s very versatile and can be . Not really the time of year that I fish a lot of soft plastics yet. I fish soft plastic craws mostly on Texas/Carolina Rigs or on the back of a skirted jig to target largemouth. Rig your soft plastic finesse baits weightless, on shaky heads, drop shots, finesse Texas Rigs, Carolina Rigs, or Neko Rigs. The eyelet is connected to the hook rings through the body of the lure. It’s not a great option if you’re trying to cover a lot of water, but this methodical approach is great when you’re really picking an area apart. It has a wide range of uses, whether fished weightless, shakey-head or flipping jig style, wacky rigged, or others. Chatterbait trailers can come in various shapes and sizes. How to fish it: Like the floating worm, you’ll also rig your soft jerkbaits on a weightless Texas rig. Posted May 12, 2020. A plastic swimbait in the right size will catch any fish that commonly feeds on smaller fish. Action-packed and ready to cast, the Gary Yamamoto Senko soft bait can be a great lure for multiple species. 1 lure for spring fishing. Found inside – Page 26Gritter says Spring Lake's largemouth bass fishing, along with the river as a whole, went downhill in the early 2000s. ... Spinnerbaits and buzzbaits are good options for bass, and many anglers do well twitching suspending lures such as ... Found inside – Page 38There are also largemouth and smallmouth bass, although numbers are on the lower side. ... For spring panfish, try right up in the shallows in the southeast corner (Spot 3). Brush shelters along the ... Use crankbaits or soft plastics. The bite: You'll see the majority of your strikes, so when you notice a boil near your bait, execute a 45-degree angle sweeping hookset. The body of the Keitech Fat Swing Impact Swimbait and its rings give it a natural appearance to help trick bass. Soft plastic baits tend to be more productive when the water temperature hovers around the 60s. Found inside – Page 14Volunteers and department employees The basin “ looked rough as a cob ” when began building a better bass lake from ... minimum size crankbaits and soft - plastics that resemble Upper lake : Off Cowan Road . limit on smallmouth bass at ... Patented kicking claws are sure to trigger strikes. Berkleyâs PowerBait series is full of great soft plastics, many of which are ideal for bass fishing. River2Sea: G-Pop. Late winter and early spring is the best time of year to fish for bass with craw patterns. Broiled Bass with Hot Melted Butter Found inside – Page 57WEST MARCH 1997 PLASTICS PAY OFF: TEXAS BASS BT THE NUMBERS Fish LOW AND SLOW*TM DARK PLASTICS TO KEY IN ON ... Texas's trophy bass hotspots in spring. texas may not have the most, as bass lakes go, but it has some of the nation's best. Best Smallmouth Lure Overall: Zoom UltraVibe Craw Best Soft Plastic Lure: Berkley Powerbait Tube Best Topwater Lure: Whopper Plopper Best Hard Body Lure: Strike King KVD Jerk Bait Best Blade Bait: Heddon Rattling Sonar This is why so many people are drawn to this fish. / Top 5 Best Bass Baits for Pond Hopping. Some popular variations include: junebug, black and black and blue. A sort of hybrid soft plastic lure with two tales and a skirt up front is one of the best soft plastic lures available for early season smallmouth bass. Another more recently popularized soft plastic worm is the Senko Worm by Gary Yamamoto. Soft full-body swimbaits are solid rubber baits that use treble hooks attached to the belly, similar to that of a hard swimbait. Here are the 20 best new fishing lures, baits, and flies of 2020. Ice fishing is the only time when I’m on the water when I don’t feel confident in swimbaits. Two Categories Of Soft Plastics First, let&#x27;s break down soft-plastic baits into two general categories. Some may loosely resemble a crawfish or small sunfish, but they’re pretty funky-looking for the most part. It has a strong squid scent to trigger strikes and attract fish in poor visibility water conditions. It has a durable body and doesn&#x27;t rip easily. To fish, it will look like bluegill or shad ripe for the taking. When targeting smallmouth, I will use the same techniques but typically downsize my presentations. And other soft plastics look like nothing you will ever see on a lake, river, or pond. For spin fishermen, the best way to match their success is with soft-plastic baits. Combine weedless soft-plastics that match the size, shape and color of native forage with slow presentations and you can catch them throughout winter. Pork chunks can work, but plastic chunk or plastic craw trailers are often best. Found inside – Page 1Sprinkling colorful history throughout, author John Kumiski highlights the state's best paddle fishing destinations, both freshwater and saltwater, including the bass of Farm 13, the redfish and trout along the Big Bend Paddling Trail and ... Found inside – Page 192The lake offers good fishing for walleyes up to 8 pounds and larger, big northern pike and smallmouth bass and crappies. ... In summer, don't be afraid to cast muskie lures with muskie rods for these monster pike. This lure can be rigged a variety of ways. How to rig a brush hog. How to fish it: It’s very difficult to fish a creature bait incorrectly—especially this time of year. The Zoom Bait Brush Hog comes in over 30 colors to attract bass. I was going back and forth between internally ribbon tails, tubes, and grub worms, but after thinking about it more – I am confident in my selection. The first ‘stick bait’ was the Senko designed by Gary Yamamoto which was inspired by a Bic Pen. This is one lure that I love to fish f. Retail Hours: (Walk In Traffic) Curbside Pickup: Mon - Sat: 10am - 5:30pm PST Sun: Closed *Pick up location - Suite 140 Phone Hours: Monday - Friday: 5am - 6pm PT Sat - Sun: 10:00am - 3:00pm PT Retail is closed on all major U.S. holidays. To achieve this action, make sharp, downward twitches with your rod tip to make the worm dart from side to side. A crawfish imitator provides a lifelike presentation in clear rushing water that hard baits can fail to do. As green pumpkin proves versatile in the natural color collection, black can . When the water is cold, the fish is cold. Itâs a cross between a lizard, worm, and crawfish. There are three categories of plastics I use as topwater baits: 1) soft swimbaits with square or paddletails; 2) stickbaits and worms; and 3) creature baits. I’ve had several 75-fish days flipping random shallow cover with this bait. The purpose of this book is to make the reader a better bass angler. The books covers where the fish live, what they eat, as well as lures and techniques that put them on the fishing line under fishing conditions of all kinds. You can certainly get bites fishing them around laydowns and grass, but remember, you’ll have to battle your fair share of hang-ups. Contrary to popular belief, most floating worms don’t really float; they just sink very slowly when fished without a weight.         section:  | slug: 5-plastics-guaranteed-to-catch-spring-bass | route: article_single |  Berkley boasts that fish hold onto their PowerBait lures 18 times longer, so the Power Jerk Shad is sure to help you make a catch. Targets: As mentioned above, floating worms excel when fished rather quickly parallel to edges; bass use these edges as travel routes on the way to and from their spawning grounds. Make long casts and when the bait hits the water, fish it quickly within inches of the surface by executing sharp, downward twitches with your rod tip. MID-RANGE: SOFT BAITS 1. It has the signature Berkley scent that is sure to lure in bass and other species. Dock posts, logs and even riprap banks can yield outstanding results this time of year. This buoyancy allows for a tantalizing action that is incredibly difficult for big bass to resist; especially in the spawn and post-spawn periods when the water temperatures are between 60 and 75 degrees. Even when bass are aggressive and fattening up for winter, you&#x27;ll have to match the soft plastics you cast to the conditions you find on the water to fool fish consistently. Their tactics will help you catch more early . But this is my list and I get to make it anyway that I want. Soft plastics, properly rigged on hooks and jigs to keep them weedless, catch less grass and more fish. This is the best time of year to pitch your lizard, worm, crawdad or whatever your go to soft plastic lure is. 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