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Hey everyone...I need some help in fishing with lures and bait..you see I fish in my backyard it is a canal a LENGTHY one but not very wide anyway I fish a lot...and Iam fishing in my back yard and I see a pretty big bass and I gave in my lure and the fish wont take it I tried to snag little bait worms glitter worms and just bandit worms put it seems to be protecting where it swims and when I try to give it my bait it just swims away any suggestions on what I should give it if you need anymore info just ask me and if you know of any good bait or lures that would work in my parts of Fishing please let me know thank you-
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live bass minnows will do the trick. place one on a arberdeen #4 hook and drop it down three feet under a bobber. or three feet from a slip sinker. it may take some time before you get him, but he will eventualy go for it.
repallas work well and if he is a large bass use a split rapalla. mepps spinners work well, serface lure like a jitter bug early morning or late evening will work.
a slow moving canal you may want to try a lazey Ike. bring it in as slowly as posible.
if you are having problems with your plastics, try swicthing up your presentations. add a little jerking motion once in a while and allow it to drop once in a while.
chacnes are good he is hip to your presentation methods so changing up is the key.
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[ul][li]I keep one or two of those rapallas in my box at all times. [/li] [li]mega baits makes some realy noce holographics crank and jig baits. [/li] [li]Burkly makes some nice plastics that work well in the canals. [/li] [li]flies tied on to a three to five foot leader tied to a bubble is killer for spring and mid summer.[/li] [li]jitterbugs early morn and late evenings or overcast days are good. [/li][/ul]
for canal fishing I like the slower moving crank baits. but I will go to a mepps spinner from time to time with great suscess.
the fun of fishing canals are you never know what is going to come up day or night. catfish bass pike, most any thing that lives in the lake will eventualy venture in to the canal when conditions are right. so it may seem like at times you cant see a fish there many times they are laying in the weeds and under over hanging shrubs and in fallen trees.
you can spend countless hours working a canal and think you know every thing there is to know about it only to one day see some thing you would never have expected to be there.
half the fun of canal fishing is the experimentation. lets not for get live bait. when canal fising if you can provide a bug that is bussing around the water you will do well,
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Hey Fourstrings! Welcome to the board!
Would love to see the snapshot of your bass. Feel free to post it here.
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Nice fish! How big is he?
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I would ave to some about 2 feet im not sure lol...but it was heavy
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Does anybody know of any good worms that would work in my canal thx
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Have you tried Nightcrawlers?? You can use them natural, green or even inflate them for more enhancement.
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Never heard of ...them...any other ideas?
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OK...Ill see what i can do
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[size 2] [font "Comic Sans MS"] Here comes my 2 cents, Bass spook easy. So if your making a lot of noise or cast a shadow on the water you could scare them. That may be a problems also. [/font] [/size]
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Are Floating Worms Any good or spinnerbaits tell me what you think would work
O and here is some pictures of my canal I dont know weather or not this will help or not but you asked and I replied lol
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i prefer spinners over worms but it is just preferce i cover more area and worms are a bit slower but have had great fish on both,i like the terminator,and booyah in mini shad 3 willow blade or tandem in 1/2 ounce weight,black and blue and chartruse and blue also roostertails when they are finicky
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Try casting from down stream from where the fish is remember if you can see the fish chances are the fish can see you cast up ahead of the fish and work the lure or bait back to you and across try different retrieves stopping and twitching to get the fishes attention when he moves stop the bait and let the current take it eventually he will strike it even if only to try chasing it away also try at different times of day early morning or just around dusk they are most active feeding midday they don't feed much most of you bites then are reaction strikes or just simply chasing your bait away hope this helps also if its spawning time in your area the fish may just be protecting the nest and won't bite
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Hey Fourstrings, could you change that picture into a jpeg format? I dont have the time to download it (dial up). Or someone that downloaded it could change it.
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Hey BASSMASTER here ya go. There were actually 6 pictures in that zip file. Some were nearly identical. Here are the best 4.
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So What Do you think?.....
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-thx