Thursday's NEW Bass U TV Video Update:
-Mike Iaconelli's On-Water Training on How to Fish Visible Cover
-Ish Monroe's Class on 'Dropping Bombs' to Catch Big Bass
-Special Introductory Bass University TV offer: Autographed Tackle Gift!
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University program. In addition, each new member will also receive a
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May 27, 2014. Anglers can subscribe at
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Recent Bass U TV Video Updates:
-Mike Iaconelli and Pete Gluszek's on-water training: Knots.
Watch the short preview clip here
-Shaw Grigsby's one hour Sight Fishing Class.
Watch the short class preview clip here
April Bass University TV Tips
Mike Iaconlli: How to Fish Visible Cover
Photo Credit: BASS, Bass Pro Shops Open, Seigo Saito
"Water
clarity is super important to determining how to fish visible cover. I
break down the water clarity into two categories…In clear to
semi-stained water conditions, fish the cover by starting on the outside
of the cover and work your casts to the inside. In dirty or muddy
water conditions, do the complete opposite and fish the cover by
starting your casts right on the heart of the cover then work your casts
out on the cover. This is the best criteria for using the water
clarity to determine how you are going to pick the visible cover apart."
Shaw Grigsby: Sight Fishing
"This is called Brewster's Angle and a camera guy showed it to me.
While fishing you have polarized sunglasses on. You can see into the
water better from certain angles. I used to think that I could just
fish with the sun at my back and see better into the water. With this
principle about polarization, you can hold your hand up to block the sun
and you will be able to see well to the right and left of your hand (90
degree angle). This will show you the ways (direction) that you need
to fish!"
For more on Sight Fishing and Brewster's Angle, watch Shaw's entire class by
clicking here.
Mike Iaconelli: Knots
"Here is a simple technique for attaching your braided main line to a
fluorocarbon leader by using a barrel swivel. I really like this under
certain conditions where you need to use a spinning rod, light line, or
make monster casts. A lot of times when you use this with a soft
plastic minnow style bait or soft stick bait, it actually enhances the
presentation. Tie your favorite knot to both ends of the barrel swivel
to join the main line with the leader. Now what you have is something
that will stop line twist on a bait that has a lot of movement. Another
benefit, especially in clear water, is that the barrel swivel is
actually going to look like a little baitfish. Think about it, you will
have a little baitfish being chased by a bigger baitfish and then you
have the bass that will come up and take the bigger baitfish. This is a
really natural presentation in clear water."
Mike Iaconelli: Match the Hatch
"There are a lot of ways that you can figure out how to mimic what is
real in the environment with artificial baits. One way to "match the
hatch" is to do research before you go fishing. Go online and google
search for the forage in the specific lake, river, or pond. A lot of
times you can figure it out this way. You can also call state agencies
or call local tackle shops and ask them what the bass are feeding on."
Watch Mike Iaconelli's entire on-water video on matching the hatch by
clicking here.
Brett Hite: Powershot Rig
"The powershot rig is a great way to fish for bedding bass. If you
know that there are some good 5 to 8lb bass spawning in an area, beef up
your dropshot tactic. You will want to use 12 to 20lb test
flourocarbon line, 16 is a good median to start with. 1/4 and 3/8 are
the best dropshot sinker weights. I would use the lightest weight that I
can get away with; but you still want to choose the weight that you can
pitch really well. Use a baitbasting reel that is very "free" and will
let you pitch a long way. I use a Abu Garcia Revo Premier. Try using
creature style baits and also use the same soft plastic baits that you
generally fish in the same areas on a texas rig for flipping and
pitching."
Watch Brett's entire class on dropshotting and powershotting
by
clicking here.
Pete Gluszek's Smallmouth Bass Tip:
"Change the colors of your baits to keep a school of smallmouth
biting. For example, I've been on schools of smallmouth on a lipless
crankbait bite. I'll catch 'em, catch 'em, catch 'em until they stop
biting. Change the colors of your lures and continue catching them. I
generally use red, firetiger, and chrome colors of lipless crankbaits.
One of the big things I do is most of the time I am firing up these big
schools of smallmouth with 1/2 oz lipless crankbaits. Once the bass get
spooked by the 1/2oz baits, switch to a 1/4oz bait and start the
process of firing them up again and cycle right through your colors!
This will help you improve from catching one or two bass in a school, to
catching sometimes 20 or 30 smallies! One thing to keep in mind is
that many anglers do not change their bait's colors and they will only
catch a few bass out of each school. The longer that the school of bass
has been inactive, the tougher it is going to be to re-ignite the
school into biting your baits."
Watch Pete's entire class on how to
locate and catch big smallies by
clicking here.
Mike Iaconelli's Tip on Locating Bass:
"When the information obtained from the local sources (biologists,
tackle shop owners, and marinas) is compared with the rest of the
historical research, buzzwords are revealed. The process of doing
research gets an angler thinking about the new body of water long before
a cast is ever made. When its time to get started fishing, an angler
will have a plan of attack and the luck factor is greatly diminished."
Watch Mike's entire one hour class on locating bass fast/ new bodies of
water by
clicking here.
Brett Hite’s Chatterbait Tip:
“My favorite thing for big bass that I think big bass eat anywhere in
the country is a bluegill. I really try to imitate bluegills in most of
my patterns. I try to keep it (bait selection) really simple: I go with
a green pumpkin and a black blade, a green shad color with either a
hologram or black blade, and a white chatterbait. Those are the only two
or three colors that you really need to have. You can keep it really
simple and just have the green chatterbait and the white one. I have
even seen it where the bass are not feeding on bluegills; the bass are
feeding on shad and they still want to eat the green one!"
Watch Brett's
entire 40 minute seminar on vibrating jigs by
clicking here.
Mike Iaconelli's Finesse Fishing Tip on Spiraling Tubes:
"Many of you know are familiar with a tube jig, which is a soft
plastic bodied bait with tentacles. And a lot of you know the tube jig
for flipping and pitching with baitcasting gear around heavy cover. I
like to also fish a tube jig finesse fishing style with jig head,
especially around sparse/ scattered areas of cover and open water
situations. There is no better way to fish a tube than with a jighead.
The first thing we are going to do, is to pick a jighead that maximizes
the spiral action of the tube as it falls in the water. There is no
better bait out there to imitate a dying baitfish that is spiraling
downward than a tube. I have seen it time and time again, when a shad,
minnow, or alewife are injured/ dying, they make a spinning circle as
they fall downward. This technique is a natural way to imitate
something that is dying."
Watch Ike's entire on-water training video on finesse tactics and
learn more about how to rig the tube for the perfect spiral action that
will entice a bite, based on the conditions you are facing!
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