How to Fish

Dropshot fishing is one of the most effective ways to land big bass ecpesially in summer time. When it is summer time bass tend to be in deeper, colder water and their are targeting bait moving in off the bottom of the watersystem. Depending on the bass's behaviour, dropshot fishing can be fished fast or slow. When bass are active and when the water is warm, you can work your bait with a fast action but when they are inactive and when the water is cold, lure presentation becomes very important. you have to have a slow retrieve and 'present' the lure to the bass. Dropshot fishing is basically dropping your bait to the bottom of the lake, or just beneath where bass are feeding, and working your lure upwards with a jerking action caused by wrist movement. When dropshot fishing the dropshot rig obviously works best, as shown above on bass rigs. If bass are inactive you can also fish weightless for a slower action, especially in shalower water when you don't have to drop your lure to deep. A great place for dropshot fishing is at sudden, steap drop-offs. You are almost certainly gonna hook a bass. Dropshot fishing also works great between vegetation and timber. (Trees and logs in water) When your using a fishfinder and you spot underwater structure that would be a great place to target bass through dropshot fishing. Great softbaits to use for bass fishing is grubs, straigt worms, tubes and soft jerkbaits like flukes etc.

Dropshot fishing between vegetation : When dropshot fishing between thick grass or any other vorms of vegetation you should fish with a weedless rig. A weedless rig is basically covering the hook with your bait so that it doesn't get stuck between the vegetation. You could drop you lure in the thickest grass without getting stuck. When fishing feedless you can fish a far greater area of water. And bass love vegetation because there are tons of baitfish and insects in the vegetation, their are loads of oxygen and it is a great place for bass to use as an ambush point. Also use a small weight to break through the vegetation.

Other methods when fishing between vegetation : Topwaterlures work good above thick grass and lillypads, espacially frog poppers and especially on lillypads.The hooks are covered so you wont snagg on vegetation. Something that works even better than frogpoppers are the new snake lures designed by Dough Hannon, The bass professor. Watch the video on snake lures and you'll see for yourself! When topwater fishing, bass will slam you from underneath and this is the most exciting ways to catch bass. Your hart goes racing when a bass slams you from beneath. Another tactics that works is using a shallow diving cranckbait and then fishing between and alongside vegetation. As I said, Bass use the vegetation as an ambush point and wait for baitfish to swim by! A jighead with a fly or curlytail will also be effective in vegetation.

Don`t you get frustrated everytime you lose an expensible fishing lure? Do you have a cramped budget? Than create your own fishing lures! It is very easy and very fun! It is also great to land a fish using your own lure. It does not take a lot of time and it costs almost nothing. If you lose it you can simply create a new one. you don`n need a lot of equipment or tools. All the lures I create is made out of wood. I only used a small knife and sandpaper. I just started cutting away a basic design and as I went on the lure got some shape. I just finished it of with sandpaper. It is that easy. Try and get some nice, soft wood to work with. You can make surface lures, like poppers, or diving lures, like crankbaits. You can then add eyes, feathers, propellers etc. to your lure.

Now your set with all the necassary tackle. You've got all the gear but still no idea. Whats next? When practising Specimen Carp angling it is essential to use the correct bait. Specimen carp angling is all about targeting bigger fish and to keep those small buggers from getting hooked. That is why you have to use much larger bait. Small floats and maize wont do. The 2 most succesfull specimen carp angling baits are tigernuts and boilies. Try and find yourselve the biggest tigernuts and boilies you can get. If you go out and still catch smaller fish than you preffer, use two or more boilies/tigernuts on a rig. Maize can also work if you rig a whole cluster of maize. Boilies revelotionised fishing today and it is regarded as the best bait to land monster carp with all over the world, the UK, Romania, France, Marocco, South Africa etc. Specimen carp angling in SA and the USA is fairly new, so if your an American try it out as soon as possible and suprise a couple of your mates with some astonashing carp.