Useful Tips to Fishing Bass in Texas

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Useful Tips To Fishing Bass In Texas
Lake Livingston-Great Catfish, Bass and Perch action. Catfish off the bank but a boat is best for the rest. Lakes Travis and Buchanan have excellent fishing for white bass, and Buchanan is one of the state's top striped bass producers. Anglers fish for largemouth bass there as well and in Lake LBJ, another of the Highland Lakes chain on the lower Colorado River.

Jigs, worms, and crankbaits have been catching crappies. Live worms or minnows, crankbaits, and jigs have caught some walleyes. Jigs, tubes and crankbaits have been the best choices for fishing the deeper waters. Bass fishermen who have access to farm ponds have been doing very well, as are anglers working some of the more popular lakes.

Largemouth bass are cover-oriented fish. They use structure - rocks, weeds, logs, grass, and ledges - to protect themselves from predators and to ambush food items that pass by. Largemouth/Spotted Bass are around brush and bluffs in pockets and coves. Flukes, Spinnerbaits, Tube baits, Finesse worms, Crankbaits are a good thing to be throwing on shale and rock banks 5-10 ft.

Summertime is an excellent time of year for using artificial lures because so many different baits can be effective. Summer water temperatures appear to be one variable that increases the lethality of the virus; almost all bass die offs documented in other states have occurred from June through September. Scientists do not know how the virus is transmitted or how it is activated into a disease, and no cure is currently known.

Smallmouth bass fishing is fun and exciting, in fact I think pound for pound smallmouth bass may just be the hardest fighting freshwater fish on the continent. Catching these fish with conventional spinning or casting gear is an experience in itself, though there is another way to fish for smallmouth bass that gets overlooked by most anglers. Smallmouth bass are fair on live baits. Walleye are fair on live bait. Smallmouth bass are good on root beer JDC curl tail grubs, 6" smoke/red tubes on ball jigheads, and Bleeding Shad Tiny Traps along main lake points and ledges in 5 - 15 feet. Crappie are fair to good on Curb's crappie jigs and live minnows around submerged brush piles along break lines.

Smallmouth bass can be good year round. Topwaters and crankbaits fished around rocky points and riprap can be very productive. Smallmouth bass tend to lurk in the cooler water of streams, especially

below fast moving rapids, in holes, on the bottom and along steep banks and bluffs. Areas that are undercut by erosion are the perfect place to find bass because they provide good hiding spots, as are areas around large rocks and fallen logs.

Bait fish will be thick in these areas and the bass will be thick below. Baitfish are not at the peak of activity but they will be in good supply in the deeper water. The lake is really turning on this time of year and the fish should be biting well.

Anglers will also find catfish and white bass. Whitney Lake's winding, riverine waters are good for cruising and sailing. Anglers report that 50- to 100-fish days are not uncommon, and 2005 saw the lake record rise to a whopping 15.68 pounds. Anglers did well during the early evening hours from the bank and from boats. Best baits were extra-scented power baits, night crawlers, spinner/night-crawler combinations and crank baits.

Black basses are larger and longer-bodied than sunfishes and more predatory. The largemouth bass may grow to 32 in. Black bass are the most popular freshwater gamefish in the nation. And, Texas is one of the top states when it comes to producing trophy largemouths.

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