Category Bass Fishing Tackle

The Lightweight Fishing Tackle Perfect for Heavy Weight Anglers

One of the most innovative and precise center pin fishing tackle is the J.W. Young and Sons Bob James Lightweight Fishing Tackle. The design of this center pin reel is a spoked one with two ball bearing racers where the spool runs. Despite of the fact that its design is entirely similar to an average pure center pin one, its particular construction makes it one of the best rods in the market at present.

The back plate of this fishing tackle is machine constructed, giving this equipment a lightweight feel. Also included in its features is a click check system and micro adjustable disc drag set-up. The center pin of this fishing rod does not come with the usual standard cage unlike other fishing tackle designs. The diameter of the rod is 4” with a depth of 1” and weighs in at just 200 grams...

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Bass Fishing With the Carolina Rig

Learning to fish a plastic worm is serious business because it is the most productive and consistent way there is to catch bass. The angler who is just starting out usually goes through a long and difficult period of trying to develop the ‘feel’ of the slowly fished worm, with every rock and obstruction on the bottom causing him to want to set the hook.
In reality, ‘the only way to learn to fish the plastic worm is to fish the plastic worm’.
Actually,this statement holds true for learning how to fish any new lure or technique! That statement is not meant to be funny, but to make the point that worm fishing takes a lot of practice to master. However, there is an easy way to fish the worm.
It is just as productive as any of the other methods (often better), is simple, and provides an excelle...

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The Best Bass Fishing Lure

Everyone has a favorite bass fishing lure, but let’s explore the wealth of lures available.  If you had only one lure to use in your next tournament season, what would it be? Would you choose a worm, spinnerbait, topwater, or something else? They all have advantages and disadvantages at certain times of the year.
If I could only choose one, it would have to be a crankbait. It’s not my favorite way to fish, but for tournaments I strongly believe that it is the most versatile and productive of all lures.
The crankbait can be fished anywhere. You can fish it on top, everywhere in between and all the way to the bottom. You can even add weight to make them suspend. if you’re fishing heavy cover with a crankbait with a large bill, the bill will act as a guard for the hooks. This is especially true if you’ll cut off the bottom hook on the treble, which also makes it weedless.

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Locate the Top Fishing Hotspots…

Upping your likelihood of a fish biting your bait, is an equal mixture of luck, expertise and information. The information part comes from having information about the best fishing spots around. And when you have located where the best fishing spots are you have immediately increased your probabilities of reeling in the big ones.The rest is up to your fishing expertise and nature.

So let us say that you are going camping or taking a day trip, you might want to do some fishing while out there. You first call of duty is to find out the fishing spots and the best way to do that is to ask someone If you are going to a nature reserve or a camping site then this is easy as all you need to do is to call ahead and speak to the person at the information desk...

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Picking Bass Fishing Tackle

There is a wide variety of Bass Fishing Tackle to select from. The first thing that you have to decide on is the type of reel to use. Basically, there are three types of fishing reels that are used for Bass fishing, spinning reels, bait casting reels, and there are fly fishing reels. Since fly-fishing is a type of fishing all on its own I will not include fly-fishing reels in this comparison.

Most newcomers in the world of bass angling find Spinning Reels easier to use than Bait Caster. Learning to cast with a Spinning Reel is relatively painless compared to learning to cast with a bait casting reel. Learning to use a bait casting reel takes time to learn to cast without having any backlash.

Many bass anglers have happily stuck with spinning tackle for many years and will still continue to...

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