Why am I unable to catch a bass with live bait no matter what I try?

[inyourmouth]

[quote Edgy779]Alot of the lakes i fish at are retention ponds, and a lot of the time you can see the bass. I had some nightcrawlers on a small hook, with a small weight, and i would sightfish, drop it right in front of them and they would take it. Just require patience. And as for catfish, I tried soo many things before i found my favorite well real bait to use. My neighbor stocked a lake with catfish, before there was just shad, bluegill, and bass, i tried live bluegill, cutup blue gill, pieces of bluegill, shad live and dead, worms, the dough stuff from walmart. Finally i tried hotdogs. I cut maybe a 1" piece and threw it out there, within 2 minutes i hear my baitrunner zing out there! Also, if you have smoked sausage for dinner and got some leftovers, which is hard to do since it is delicious, try some of that. They hit it has hard as hotdogs. I used the hotdogs raw and the smoke sausage cooked.[/quote]

havent heard of using hot dog and sausage before, im trying that next time I go out!
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