bass fishing tips

Fishing the Tube in a Spot that is not Holding any Bass

This particular one seems to be a no-brainer, yet it shows up often. Despite the possibility that you are fishing around a renowned -hot spot- as in the Ledge, Race Point, Devil's Bridge or the Fingers, it does not indicate that you have a hot spot for this specific outting.

Have a look around the the very next time you find yourself on the water. On Cape Cod Bay in particular, the striped bass could really be just about anywhere. There's a huge amount of water all around to investigate! I by no means place a line in the water until I see a minimum of one fish on my sonar screen. Marking just one striper, amongst all of this often life-less water, is a huge deal. Chances are that individual fish below your transducer is only one of a lot of bass in the immediate area.

The next occasion you head out onto the water, have a shot at cruising utilizing a focused pattern all over many of the prime fishing spots until you start marking stripers or bait fish. Then place the tube and worm rigs within the water and troll around for 15 minutes. If nothing else shows, keep searching around. Combusting a few additional gallons of gasoline cruising around will probably be worth it-have faith in me!

2) Experimenting with different tube colors first, as a substitute for depth and tube size

There area most likely a boat load of individuals who will not agree with me on this subject (which is A-OK) but I really do not see a need to hold tube colors besides red, black along with perhaps orange. In my opinion hot pink, green, purple, brown and other color tubes are crafted to capture fishermen-and naturally a couple stripers every now and again. I used to fish with orange but I do not today.

In the case you are coming up empty, but people all around you are hooking striped bass, it may be the depth you set your tubes at, or the tube length, instead of tube color which is hindering your catch.

Unfortunately this happened to me just a couple weeks ago.. The bass fishing was hot, but without warning it oddly ceased. I first assumed the fishing had shut off, but I noticed that my fishing bud was managing to still hook up. I tried varying the number of colors I'd been trolling and next adjusting the tube color. I proceeded catching no bass at all.

It was not until I realized that my friend was using a smaller red tube-18 inches, instead of the 24 inch red tubes my crew and I had been trolling all morning. Regretfully I only had 18 inch black tubes on the boat. It did not make any difference to the stripers, and right as they found that 18 inch black tube they hit it and we started landing bass for a second time. Striped bass can be very fickle fish.

I have also had plenty of moments during which I have been hooking stripers trolling with 3 1/2 colors all trip. Then, for some reason, we no longer would entice a bite but proceed marking fish on the sonar. A simple depth change to 4 colors was all we needed and we were able to begin reeling in bass for a second time. I may perhaps never ever understand the big difference a half of a color can make to the bass-even so I will by no means ignore the importance.

If I find myself not getting bit, but I am seeing stripers on my fish finder I will normally:

1) First experiment with number of colors (depth)

2) Experiment with tube length

3) Fiddle with tube color

3) Trolling only 2 tubes instead of 3

A few of years back I would to troll 4 tube and worm rigs off my 21 foot boat. Today when I bring clients out on a fishing trip, I have observed that using 3 tubes, each on lead core fishing line, performs even smoother.

Having that 3rd tube in the water is beneficial for a couple of reasons.

1) It is an additional hook in the water for striped bass to attack, which immediately boosts your bass boating capability. All additional variables held constant, the crew employing 3 tubes will always catch more fish than the boat utilizing just 2.

2) It will allow you to experiment more with tube length, depth and color. This way you'll be able to rapidly find out what the striped bass want.

3) For some odd reason, most stripers bite that line placed down the center of the boat.

Frequently once I uncover a productive color (depth) and a effective tube color and length, I will probably fish all three lines in the same manner. In other words, all three tube and worms are trolled at the exact same depth, are the same color, and will be exactly the same length. Resulting from how my rod holders are placed on my boat, the third line runs right down the middle of the boat and is positioned somewhat closer to the back of the Miss Loretta than the other lines.

Doing this brings about in the water is a bit of a -trolling spread.- All three tube and worms are trolling for striped bass at the exact same depth, but the one tube and worm rig that is being fished off the third line (which is fished down the middle of the spread) is fished a little behind the two other tubes. This is because that middle rod holder is positioned just a bit closer to the stern of the boat than my other two rod holders. The third tube rig is fished just a couple behind the other tube rigs.

It's the exact same strategy that goes into umbrella rigs and squid bars. The rule is that you generally position one bait or lure that trails behind the school. By trolling three tube and worms in the water, you really are constructing a -school of worms- wiggling through the ocean. The middle tube (worm) has fallen just a little behind the other two tubes (worms). Bass commonly zone in on the prey that falls behind its buddies. I suspect this is the reason why my center rod commonly catches more bass the port and starboard tubes.