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Cheat Sheet for Bass Fishing
Temperature Chart
Water Temp |
Stage |
Location |
Top Presentations |
Best Lures |
45°-50° |
Pre-Pre-Spawn |
Deep, 15ft or more |
Jigging, Ned-rigging, Drop Shotting |
Jigs, Finesse plastics, jerkbaits |
50°-55° |
Pre-Spawn Begins |
points and ledges off flats |
Slow, Deep presentations, reaction baits shallow |
Jigs, diving crankbaits, spinnerbaits, shallow cranks |
55°-60° |
Prespawn |
Shallow water near cover |
Working fast reaction baits |
Spinnerbaits and shallow cranks |
60°-65° |
Spawning Begins |
Sight-fishing beds |
Sight-fishing beds |
Creature baits, works, jigs |
65°-70° |
Peak-Spawn to early post-spawn |
throughout shallows, near cover |
Sight fishing, finesse, topwater |
Plastics, buzzbaits, other topwaters |
70° and up |
Post-spawn |
Shallow shady cover, deeper structure |
reaction baits shallow, slow presentations deepr |
Buzzbaits, frogs, jigs, plastics, crankbiats |
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Line Selection
Technique |
Pound Test |
Line Type |
Pitching to Sparse Cover |
15-to 20-poun |
Fluorocarbon |
Pitching to heavy cover |
20-pound or 65-pound |
Fluorocarbon or braid |
Frogs over matted grass |
65-pound |
Braid |
Cold water jerk baits |
8 to 12-pound |
Fluoro or Mono |
Deep diving crankbait |
8 to 15-pound |
Fluoro or Mono |
Shallow crankbaits |
10 to 17-pound |
Mono |
Lipless crankbaits |
12 to 20-pound |
Fluoro or Mono |
Topwaters |
15-pound or 30-pound |
Mono |
Spinnerbaits |
15 to 20-pound |
Mono |
Senkos |
8 to 20-pound |
Fluoro |
Drop Shot |
4-10 pound or 10-20 pound |
Fluoro leader Braid Backing |
Shaky Head |
8 to 10-pound |
Fluoro |
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Spinnerbait Blade Types
Type |
When to use |
Willow |
Less vibration
Faster Retrieve
Use Warmer Weather
|
Colorado/Indiana |
More vibration
Slower retrieve
Stained water or dim conditions
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Number of Blades
Number of Blades |
When to use |
Single |
Murkey or low visbility |
Double |
When a smaller presentation is needed
Clear Water
Cool Water
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Spinnerbait Blade Colors
Color |
When to use |
Gold |
Low light conditions
Stained water
Cloudy days
Early morning/late evening
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Silver |
Clearer water
Sunny conditions
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Colored |
Muddy water
Night fishing |
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Fishing Line Basics
Type |
Benefit/Use |
Monofilament |
More buoyant and likely to float
Stretches slightly
Great for top water lures |
Fluorocarbon |
Stiffer with little stretch
Nearly invisible in the water
Perfect for lures used under the water
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Braided |
Lot more visible
Weeds or Heavy Cover
No Stretch
Extremely Strong |
Jerkbait Color Selection
Conditions |
Color |
Bright Days and Clear Water |
Translucent |
Cloudy Conditions |
Solid colors or those with flash |
Stained Water |
White or Colored Bottom |
Windy Conditions |
Flashy |
Crankbait Color Selection
Conditions |
Color |
Rainy or Cloudy |
White |
Stained or Muddy Water |
Brightly colored crankbait with as orange or chartreuse |
Sunny |
Silver (If bass feed on shad) |
Sunny |
Green/Red/Brown (If bass feed on crawfish) |
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Soft Plastic Rigs
Rig |
Description |
Carolina Rig |
Tie about 18 inches of clear leader between the rigged hook and a small barrel swivel. On your main line, thread first a brass Carolina weight (or a lead sinker), followed by a small, red glass bead. Then tie your main line to the other side of the swivel. |
Texas Rig |
Bullet Weight above a Hook with worm, hooked straight to make it weedless into the body |
Tube Rig |
Small internal jighead |
Drop shot |
Tie your hook with a long tag end and add a drop shot weight to the tag end |
Ned Rig |
Soft plastic turd bait on a flat-headed Ned Head Jig |
Wacky |
Hook soft plastic bait through the middle of the bait, can add a nail weight in the plastic end if needed |
Neko Rig |
Hook soft plastic bait through the middle of the bait, can add a nail weight in the plastic end if needed, recommend to put a rubberband in the middle to make work last longer |
Tokyo Rig |
Hook has a rigid metal wire coming off the eye, bend the wire to keep the weight in place |
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