re: Help me catch bass

Yeah a lot of the time the body of water will dictate to you what bait to use. It’s all about keeping that bait in the strike zone for as much time as possible per cast. It’s your job as an angler to figure out where the strike zone is and what will stay there the most. A Texas rig spends a split second in the strike zone if there’s three feet of grass on the bottom, while a fluke will glide over the top of it right in front of them. Lilies have their own set of techniques, but the bigger point is those techniques just allow you to get a bait in there effectively, so don’t concern yourself as much with colors and exactly how you’re rigging it. Bass aren’t that damn smart, 95% of getting a bite is ensuring they’re close enough to see it, the other 5% is in the details of the presentation. Bait companies make money convincing you this or that color or design is the trick, when what you’re really looking to do is learn to predict where the fish are at a given time and what pattern they’re on.