| Given the choice of choosing between bass fishing | | | | spinner baits and worms. Then you have worms |
| and watching old game show reruns on TV, I'm | | | | in just about every size, shape and color |
| afraid I would have to select the latter as my | | | | combinations you could ever possibly imagine. In |
| entertainment for the week! My tastes in angling | | | | this category you also have lizards, grubs, shads, |
| run toward those species that are more eager to | | | | crawfish, mice and frogs, all in squeezably soft |
| be caughtthan the wily bass. I like to dangle my | | | | plastic. I'm not bass socially correct because I still |
| bait in the water and let a hungry fish drift by and | | | | use minnows! |
| grab it; nothing much more energetic than that! | | | | Just buying bait can be a traumatic experience. I |
| Before you can do anything about bass fishing, | | | | never like to engage in unnecessary thinking and |
| you have to have a boat. This type of fishing | | | | thoughts about having to choose among the |
| seems to operate on the premise that if you can | | | | thousands of lures available are making me crazy! |
| see them, they can see you and they won't bite. | | | | Fishing clothes are a different matter entirely. |
| This makes fishing from shore impossible; you | | | | Gone are the days when you would see a bass |
| have to sneak up on them from the middle of | | | | boat with a couple of guys in T-shirts and denim |
| the river or lake. Unless you have a boat, you | | | | cutoffs tossing a lure near a tree stump. Today's |
| can't really call yourself a bass fisherman! | | | | fashionable fisherman will be wearing a fishing shirt |
| Purchasing a boat and motor is not an easy job. | | | | with large pockets on the front of the shirt and |
| First of all the prices that are being charged for | | | | with epaulets on the shoulders. The shirt would |
| new bass boats are astonishing! My first house | | | | come in a variety of colors, from peach to |
| didn't cost nearly as much as a decent boat costs | | | | canary yellow. |
| today. Once you recover from sticker shock and | | | | Regular shorts won't work anymore. Bass |
| you buy a boat and motor, it will have to be | | | | fishermen of today must wear nylon fishing |
| outfitted with a trolling motor, depth finder, and | | | | shorts, with cargo pockets to carry nutrition bars |
| other incidentals you really need to hunt down the | | | | and powdered drink mixes to pour into their |
| elusive bass. | | | | bottled water. The bottoms of the shorts are |
| When I'm on the lake or beach, I expect my fish | | | | made of nylon mesh in case the wearer is thrown |
| to bite the bait I throw at them. Mostly I just | | | | out of the boat and has to swim for his life. If |
| watch the bobber dancing on the water and wait | | | | that occurs he'll be suitably attired when he is |
| until it goes under. That is not the case with bass | | | | dragged out of the water by rescuers. |
| fishing aficionados. You have to have a large | | | | Other considerations for the bass fisherman are |
| variety of lures in your tackle box if you're going | | | | his choice of rods and reels and fishing line. Bass |
| to fill up the deep well in your brand new boat. | | | | rods come in a variety of categories; flipping rods, |
| Selecting the right type of bait not only is | | | | jerk rods, short rods and long rods. Reels suitable |
| necessary; it's expensive! | | | | for bass fishing also come in different models. To |
| If you troll around the lake with a minnow and | | | | make sure you have the right one, you should |
| hook, you're not considered a real bass fisherman. | | | | buy one of each and have them outfitted and |
| Unless your tackle box contains at least a couple | | | | stored on your boat. Whether you catch anything |
| of hundred dollars of bass lures, you're not a | | | | or not, you'll impress other fishermen when you |
| member of the club. I fully suspect that most of | | | | meet them on the water. |
| these lures catch more fishermen than fish. | | | | By nature I'm a simple man and bass fishing has |
| Picking the right lure is a chore when there are so | | | | become too complicated for me. I'll just doze |
| many to choose from. There are swim baits, | | | | underneath a shade tree and wait for a fish to |
| crank baits, jerk baits, twitch baits, slash baits, | | | | tug on the line tied to my big toe. |