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Gitzits Are Not a Teenage Complexion Problem
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Tubes and to some degree creature baits were once called gitzits… I’ve often wondered how the name Gitzits came about. It’s a long ways away from tube bait, grub and creature bait stamped on the covers of the packages of today’s products. It’s one of those little life’s mysteries I’ll file away somewhere and solve it one of these days. But according to a resent survey, a Carolina rigged creature plastic is the #1 pro plastic bait, weightless worms are the pros most used top water lure and t...
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Category: Bass
Date: 5/24/2010
Author: Bruce Middleton
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Lure Choices, the Why and Where Fore's
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Why we choice the lures we do…When it comes to choosing the right lure for the right time, the right situation and the right conditions for that set of circumstances you are in at that moment on a lake you’re at, you have to take in a lot of details. Probably one of the most important details other than depth is what the bass like to eat and what is available at that time of year in that lake you’re fishing. Now in most places the shad and its smaller cousin the threadfin would be the two s...
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Category: Bass
Date: 3/8/2010
Author: Bruce Middleton
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Understanding Plastic Tubes
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A workshop on understanding and using plastic tube baits…Normally tube baits are not search lures, they don’t cover a lot of area in a short time and they don’t dive to different depths. We use them to get into every nook and cranny in cover a bass might hide in. They are made to dissect small parts of a stump field or a weed bed and they are especially good at catching large mouth bass that hide in really nasty weed choked shallows, under docks and on spawning flats. But they can be hooked...
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Category: Bass
Date: 1/4/2010
Author: Bruce Middleton
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Realistic Baits and Lures
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Choose lures and baits according to what lives in the lake you’re fishing… When it comes to choosing realistic looking baits or lures to catch a bass on, you need to know several things. Mostly you need to know what is on the bass’s menu in any given lake that you are going to fish so as to aid you in your choice of lures. This means you need to know what kind of fish inhabit the lake with the bass as well as the creatures that live on the lake bottom. Not all lakes are alike. You also need...
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Category: Bass
Date: 11/2/2009
Author: Bruce Middleton
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Buzz Baits and why we use them
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If you like explosive top water action, this lure is for you.Buzz baits, as we know them today, were first introduced in the mid 1970’s. The familiar shape and bent blade look hasn’t changed much since then except for minor blade modifications, skirt material and the addition of some colors. They are an easy and enjoyable lure to use and even a beginner can use one effectively. When using a buzz bait and the bass are not responding most fishermen think that the bass just aren’t responding ...
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Category: Bass
Date: 8/31/2009
Author: Bruce Middleton
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Deep Structure and how to fish it
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A fish finder and a few buoys can mean bass in the boat. Bass are creatures of shallow cover but this doesn’t mean that they live in 4 or 5 feet of water all the time. In fact most bass spend the spring, summer and fall in water that ranges from 12 to 35 feet deep. Now some anglers don’t think this is shallow water but they are wrong. Now a couple of hundred feet of water surely is deep but compared to 20 feet, 20 feet is shallow. So for those of you who think 30 feet of water is deep, you ...
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Category: Bass
Date: 7/5/2009
Author: Bruce Middleton
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Fish like a Madman!
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Don’t just cast and reel, rip the lure instead… When it comes to bass fishing there are as many techniques as there are lures. But if you don’t already know, you can fish each lures in different ways to attract bass to that lure. One of the most common complaints most bass anglers have is that the bass seem lethargic and always seem to bite better on slow moving baits and lures. This limits the amount of any body of water you are fishing because you have to go this slow. Well all that can b...
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Category: Bass
Date: 6/15/2009
Author: Bruce Middleton
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Fishing Big Water for Big Bass
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Large lakes hold the promise of bigger bass… I once read an article that stated that a large lake or “big water” as he put it, was anything over 2,000 acres and that most big bass tournaments take place on water that is at least 20,000 acres with some covering 40,000 plus acres. Now at the time this seemed a bit arbitrary to draw a line in the sand and say that 2000 surface acres was the cutoff point for big water. I myself would have said that 500 or 1000 acres would be considered big wate...
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Category: Bass
Date: 5/7/2009
Author: Bruce Middleton
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Pontoon Boats for Bass Fishing
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A bass boat doesn’t catch more bass… When it comes to fishing for bass most anglers think they need a really big and powerful bass boat to go fishing in. But in real life we bass fisherman know that there are a lot of options besides owning a big bass boat and that there are a lot of places a bass boat just can’t get into. Fishing from the back seat of a friends bass boat or the front seat of a friends smoker craft are viable options to fish from verses buying your own. Joining a BASS club...
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Category: Bass
Date: 3/29/2009
Author: Bruce Middleton
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Baitfish And Their Relationship With Bass
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Find baitfish and the bass will be nearby… The favorite meal of Large Mouth Black Bass is Sushi and this comes in the form of baitfish. Whether that is a Shad, Blue Gill, Crappie, Perch, Shiner, baby Bass, trout or any other small minnow, it doesn’t matter. For a bass to grow normally it needs to eat about 3% of its body weight every day. But up here in Washington State we are limited to Sunfish, Perch, Blue Gill, Sculpins, Rock Bass and Crappie for the most part but a few of the large pred...
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Category: Bass
Date: 2/2/2009
Author: Bruce Middleton
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