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Bass fishing gear
10Key:
The use of heavy gear in bass fishing is directly correlated to the type of areas that hold fish. Bass tend to relate to cover, sometimes very heavy cover. In order to get fish out of sunken tree tops, bridge pilings, heavy, matted grass, one needs to use heavy line, rod and reel.
tlbradford:
Hook set is a big reason for heavy rods and braided line. Largemouth bass have big mouths. They feed by inhaling their food, not biting and attacking it like a fish with teeth. A stiff rod with a sensitive tip and a line that doesn't stretch will help sense the light bite, and then give you the fastest time between feeling the bite and setting the hook, before the bass spits it back out. With the soft plastic baits and weedless baits, you are also trying to force that hook point through the plastic it is embedded in and through the mouth of the fish. Then as stated earlier you are horsing them out of cover and into the boat. It is a specific tool for a specific setting.
BLKBEARKLR:
Guess you wont understand it until you've tried it.
Bofire:
That makes sense Mr. Bradford. I am pretty interested think I gotta try it out this summer.
One good thing is the rods and reels are not to pricy.
Carl
BLKBEARKLR:
Bofire,
I see that you want to try some bass fishing, I live in Roy, later this spring if you are interested in getting out let me know, you can split the gas and I can show you a couple of tricks. And one thing is I use all G.Loomis rods and they are quite expensive so when you are spending money on a rod and you are saying that they are not that expensive there might be a reason why.
joe
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