10-22-2012, 10:32 PM
Many times you can use live bait and not get the bass to hit and use an artificial lure and get strikes in the same area. Why? Well..
The live bait is their dangling from a hook and either dead and not moving or swimming erratically to get off the hook or just moving slowly.
The lure does something different than all those "live" movements that the bass isn't used to seeing and if you cast the lure over him a few times he either strikes on the first pass out of a "reaction" strike out of instinct or after a few passes bass will actually get frustrated (so they say) and hit the prey that keeps moving into their area.
I have been bass fishing over 40 years and that is my experience. I've been fishing with friends that have their kids along and they are using shad,minnows even night crawlers and can't get a bass to hit and I can put on a plastic worm wacky rigged and run it through the same place their bait is and catch bass. It's based on instinct reaction bites and just plain pissing the bass off til he hits the lure.
Hope this helps you.
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The live bait is their dangling from a hook and either dead and not moving or swimming erratically to get off the hook or just moving slowly.
The lure does something different than all those "live" movements that the bass isn't used to seeing and if you cast the lure over him a few times he either strikes on the first pass out of a "reaction" strike out of instinct or after a few passes bass will actually get frustrated (so they say) and hit the prey that keeps moving into their area.
I have been bass fishing over 40 years and that is my experience. I've been fishing with friends that have their kids along and they are using shad,minnows even night crawlers and can't get a bass to hit and I can put on a plastic worm wacky rigged and run it through the same place their bait is and catch bass. It's based on instinct reaction bites and just plain pissing the bass off til he hits the lure.
Hope this helps you.
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