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Hi folks we're joined here today with Scott Porter from the wahala fish hatchery
He's a fisheries biologist and also an avid angler. Scott explained to us what kind of woods were gonna use out on the water.
Okay Laurieanne, we have a variety of lures here that are available to us,
And if anyone goes fishing or has looked at bass fishing well they can tend to get overwhelmed from all the different lures that are out here,
So we just laid some basic ones out here, we here we have our soft plastics,
We have our crank baits, our hard plastics here then we just have a couple of spinner baits.
Just real quickly we'll look at these and talk about them briefly and one thing that you'll notice is that you have a variety of different body parts to these things.
You have a you tail here on the lizard that has it's arm and it's you as well.
And what that's going to do is these that have those kind of tails and those appendages on them it's going to create a little bit more vibration in the water,
Now here with the crank baits these are your hard plastic baits,
And crank baits are one of the easier baits to fish simply because there's not a lot to it as simply casting it and reeling it in,
You can vary your retrieve and things like that,
But one thing that that you want to look at on crank baits is the size of the bill and what we've got here is we've got two,
One with a very short wide bill and one with a longer bill. This one here will be more shallow running,
That wide bill it'll create a lot more wobble in the water and attract the fish you know in that particular manner.
If the fish tend to be suspended a little bit deeper and not near the surface you can go with a crank bait like this. This one here is called a deep little in.
And it'll get down 8 to 10 feet and whereas this one may be 0, 2 to 3 feet.
And what you got to do is when you're out fishing you're trying to target where the bass located. They can be near the surface or they're going to be in deeper water
Of course in warmer months like we have today you might want to throw a crank bait that's going to dive a little bit deeper.
Another popular bait is a swimbait, they make them in a soft plastic version, this one's hard plastic.
It's jointed and just like the crankbait it's going to mimic a bait fish and that's all we're trying to do is target what particular bait may be occurring in the body of water that we're fishing.
This one here looks very similar, very realistic to a bait fish as its pulled through the water and of course the retrieves vary depending on what the fish want.
These two here are our spinner baits and they as well are going to mimic bait fish.
And what it does is we have different blades on these and then depends on the water clarity.
Time of day as well, this here this is a willow leaf blade on the spinner bait with a Colorado on top,
And as it goes through the water it's going to create a lot of flash and all it's doing is trying to mimic a group of bait fish together as we're reeling it through the water.
But this is just a sort of a very small snapshot of some of the lures that are available to bass fishermen.
Having said that about all these different techniques we looked at we're merely scratching the surface this morning as we look at some of these different lures and different worms.
As far as these soft plastics go, there is a variety of ways they can be rigged out on the water.
If you visit your local bait and tackle shops ask what lures you need, what techniques are for catching those fish,
Get out on the water and practice that's all it takes and we will catch you guys next time.