| Bass fishing is one of the most popular fishing | | | | broader eco-system and position on the |
| sports around the world. | | | | food-chain, timing it right. Know your environment, |
| Landing a monster bass is the goal of the | | | | your gear (tools), Learning the basics your and |
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| cold slaw. Catching the monster bass is both an | | | | One secret to bass fishing is, what we can easily |
| art and science and there are many hidden | | | | refer to as, 'predictable behavior'. Habits, patterns, |
| secrets for catching them. | | | | life cycles, the natural rhythm that is life and |
| Hot Tips: | | | | nature - also applies to fish. This means that Bass |
| The hunter becomes the hunted - learn how a | | | | exist within this natural reality. If you can capitalize |
| small change in your paradigm, thinking and | | | | on understanding it better, you will increase your |
| approach can lead to bass-angling success! Try to | | | | chances of successful hooks/bites. Learn more, |
| picture yourself as a bass in order to become and | | | | visit the website listed at the bottom of this |
| understand the bass as a hunter. Observe, learn, | | | | article. |
| follow, study and use its natural habit, | | | | Familiarity with the Bass' favorite places to hang |
| preferences, patterns, habits, prey and choice of | | | | around is critical to success: Bottoms, stumps, |
| food, in your bass fishing strategy, and you will | | | | trees , logs, weeds and plants, contours, |
| have some interesting fish-tales to tell. | | | | structures, travel-routes, creeks, shallows/deeper |
| 2. Equipment, site, lure and skill, dawn and or dusk, | | | | passages, coves, channels, bluffs, banks and |
| shallow or deep waters, fresh/salt water, from | | | | shorelines - all can be repetitive clues on habitual, |
| boat or shore - it does not matter! There are | | | | predictable behavior of the bass. Most of the |
| secrets and techniques for each of them. | | | | 'experts' came about their knowledge through |
| 3. Experts have proven that Bass almost figure | | | | reading, studying habits of their catch, in very |
| the amount of energy it will take them to chase | | | | similar fashion than what you are undertaking. |
| the prey vs. the return. If this be true , what are | | | | Every time you get to know your fishy friends a |
| the implications for us anglers ? It is all in the | | | | little better, until you know instinctively where |
| fundamentals, the ideas, battle plan, allure, tease | | | | they will be and where their favorite spots are. |
| and methods we choose to use. This will decide | | | | Knowing and going where the fish are becomes |
| and determine our success. | | | | demystified, but even more exciting, for it is now |
| 4. Most, if not all of the so-called 'insider' secrets, | | | | more than a hunch or random chance - it is a |
| tips and stories to tell of big hauls of Bass, all | | | | planned encounter where the watery predator, |
| revolve, around a very simple basic rule - | | | | hunter par excellence, becomes the hunted! Find |
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| of choice, their nature, their relationship with the | | | | |