I need help setting up my lure for largemouth bass fishing?
Posted by Best Bass Fishing Lures on Saturday, August 28th, 2010
I am going to be shore fishing at a small reservoir this weekend. I am looking to catch largemouth bass. I bought some lures from wal mart and have the basic stuff available. Can anyone help me set this up. I have nothing set up at all. I am pretty much a beginner so anything helps. Pictures and links would be good.
I bought some wal mart ones that said storm. they are little rainbow trout lures.
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Joshon 28 Aug 2010 at 3:31 pm 1What kind of lures did you happen to buy?
Edit: The Storm lures are great baits and are easy to fish. There are different sizes of the swimbaits that you bought. For the bigger swimbaits, you need at least a 12 pound line in my opinion. They are pretty heavy baits. If you bought the smaller version of them, you can get by with a 6 or 8 pound line. Also, I reccomend using the bigger swimbaits on a baitcasting setup and the smaller ones on a spinning setup.
As far as rigging goes, there’s nothing to it. Simply tie the lure on using a Polomar or Clinch Knot and you’re ready to go. When fishing them, you just want to use a steady slow to moderate retreive. I like casting them almost parallel to the bank that I am fishing, keeping th bait swimming along the shorline where the brush and what not is. You will occasionally get hung up on stuff doing this but you will also catch plenty of fish.
Andrewon 28 Aug 2010 at 3:53 pm 2im new to bass fishing as well, ive noticed they dont seem to like live worms too well, which is the common thing for poeple to use, if found that the best color that bass seem to like is red, but other colors will work too, light bright colors for clear water and darker colors for mirkier water. As for the best lures, frogs, crayfish, minnows and smaller fish lures and rubber worms. Bass are predatorial fish and have even known to eat small mammals and in some occasions birds. For the frog lure, the type I have flipping, which is a rubber frog, you need to buy some jig hooks with weighted ends and do not need to use seperate sinkers which I have just learned, and drive the point first into the frog with the hook sticking out upward so it looks like it has a curved tail. As for the rubber worms i would suppose you can use a jig hook but I was just attaching the worm to a regular hook using the same method with the hook as the frog, and putting two or three medium sized sinkers on the line, I could be wrong in this method but I did catch three bass with that, one of them fairly nice sized. There are many other lures but so far that is what I know. I dont know if rainbow trout lures are the best but a bass could still take it possibly.