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Offline ice cracker

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tips on catching large mouth bass.
« on: Jan 16, 2012, 05:50 PM »
looking for some tips in catching large mouth bass like water depth and distance out.

Offline sleepy-trout

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Re: tips on catching large mouth bass.
« Reply #1 on: Jan 16, 2012, 06:10 PM »
looking for some tips in catching large mouth bass like water depth and distance out.
Hi my son and i was fishing pleasant pond years ago ,we set out traps out from the shore at the state park, a couple guys with their kids set up about 20 ft from our traps in deeper water ,they had flag after flag 3lb to 5 pound range .i then looked at my son and said see what 20 more feet from our traps was the differece.

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Re: tips on catching large mouth bass.
« Reply #2 on: Jan 16, 2012, 06:30 PM »
When I fish for them,  I go a couple feet off bottom and use lg shiners or 6 inch suckers... I've caught them  in 3ft- 50fow  :-\
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Re: tips on catching large mouth bass.
« Reply #3 on: Jan 16, 2012, 06:31 PM »
You see them alot in the deeper waters this time of year as ponds have turned over. 
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Re: tips on catching large mouth bass.
« Reply #4 on: Jan 16, 2012, 06:53 PM »
find the deepest water in a small pond and use the biggest baits. 

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Re: tips on catching large mouth bass.
« Reply #5 on: Jan 16, 2012, 07:00 PM »
16 reels off bottom!!

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Re: tips on catching large mouth bass.
« Reply #6 on: Jan 16, 2012, 07:01 PM »
but the pond is only fifteen reels deep :P
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Re: tips on catching large mouth bass.
« Reply #7 on: Jan 16, 2012, 07:03 PM »
but the pond is only fifteen reels deep :P

dont you know thats why they have floating line?? :P
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Re: tips on catching large mouth bass.
« Reply #8 on: Jan 16, 2012, 07:14 PM »
I find them in the 5-20 FOW range.  Bigger shiners the better. I like to be about 2 feet off the bottom, but have found them pretty much anywhere.

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Re: tips on catching large mouth bass.
« Reply #9 on: Jan 16, 2012, 07:37 PM »
When I fish for them,  I go a couple feet off bottom and use lg shiners or 6 inch suckers... I've caught them  in 3ft- 50fow  :-\

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Re: tips on catching large mouth bass.
« Reply #10 on: Jan 16, 2012, 08:07 PM »
When you do catch them, throw 'em back!

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Re: tips on catching large mouth bass.
« Reply #11 on: Jan 16, 2012, 08:09 PM »
right off the bottom deep water with a med shiner

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Re: tips on catching large mouth bass.
« Reply #12 on: Jan 16, 2012, 08:46 PM »
pretty much what everyone else has already said. Deep water, med-med heavy shiners close to the bottom. You'll get 'em!
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Re: tips on catching large mouth bass.
« Reply #13 on: Jan 16, 2012, 08:55 PM »
small suckers seem to keep the perch at bay.
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

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Re: tips on catching large mouth bass.
« Reply #14 on: Jan 17, 2012, 01:55 PM »
The largemouth are pretty much what I target through the ice now as there are several ponds in my area that have 3-6lb bass and lots of them. I've had my best luck in 10-20ft of water fishing a large shiner 2 feet off bottom. Find a nice point wherer the water drops off rather quickly and try to stay in that water depth. Good luck

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Re: tips on catching large mouth bass.
« Reply #15 on: Jan 17, 2012, 03:19 PM »
i fish in 5 ft of water and set my bait half way and i chase flags all day (rock piles) good luck tight lines   :tipup:

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Re: tips on catching large mouth bass.
« Reply #16 on: Jan 17, 2012, 06:07 PM »
I've caught my personal best small mouth (5lbs) with the bait on the bottom in 10 fow and a small shiner. Flag went up on the last trap when I was getting ready to pull out the first in the afternoon.
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Re: tips on catching large mouth bass.
« Reply #17 on: Jan 17, 2012, 06:43 PM »
shouldn't be to hard to find em if there is a decent population of em in the lake.

put your bait closer to bottom, find some deeper structure for the bigger fish.

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Re: tips on catching large mouth bass.
« Reply #18 on: Feb 12, 2012, 05:10 PM »
Bass will eat just about everything  and at most depths greater than two ft

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Re: tips on catching large mouth bass.
« Reply #19 on: Sep 03, 2012, 02:58 PM »
my pb 6lb largemouth came in 17 fow with two small shiners one one size 6 hook on the bottom
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Re: tips on catching large mouth bass.
« Reply #20 on: Sep 03, 2012, 05:43 PM »
I have beter luck useing singel hooks insted of trebel hooks.


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Re: tips on catching large mouth bass.
« Reply #21 on: Oct 02, 2012, 10:59 PM »
i've found that in lakes where bass feed on small yellow perch, a gold spoon or jigging rapala works best. tip it with a perch eye and that should get you some. no clue how to locate them other than "find the bait fish". bass usually hang around where they can ambush prey consistently, so the same weedbeds that hold bluegill and perch would be the places to look.

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Re: tips on catching large mouth bass.
« Reply #22 on: Oct 03, 2012, 07:26 AM »
My best thru the ice 9.3lb LM came out of 4 ft of water, on the outside edge of a weed line, w/ med. heavy shiner. One of the keys to hooking and landing this fish was a quick strike rig...

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Re: tips on catching large mouth bass.
« Reply #23 on: Oct 18, 2012, 09:54 AM »
I go 1 foot under in 5 feet of water

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Re: tips on catching large mouth bass.
« Reply #24 on: Jan 02, 2013, 09:45 AM »
i like to fish flats or breaks...i prefer water in the 10 to 20 foot range...i use big shiners or suckers...
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