Lake Luxembourg, October. 6, 2023

 

So, I thought that I would take another fishing trip for the day. So I traveled down to the boat rental house area of Lake Luxembourg and cast a few lines in the water using the usual night crawler bait. After an hour or two of only catching some bluegill sunnies, I decided to try out a new fishing technique that a fellow fisherman had taught me at Tyler Park a few weeks earlier, known as wacky bait rigging. Within two casts of trying that, I pulled up a very nice sized Largemouth bass, the 1st I had caught of that size in a year or two. It also marked the first real success I had ever had with any kind of non-live bait lure, having exclusively used worms for the entirety of my fishing career. Wacky bait turned out to be just about the best starter lure you could think of. It is as simple as getting a weed less hook and a plastic worm together casting it into the water and letting it sit for a few moments to let the fish see what it is and then lightly jerking the lure up while reeling it in. Hungry Bass are all mesmerized by this technique and within a few casts you can bet if there are bass nearby, they will bite. Now, while I had been fishing for years, that day was really the start of a different kind of fishing journey for me. I started to get it into my mind that I really wanted to learn various new and different fishing techniques and I've had some very satisfying success with these new techniques. This is why I am now writing them all down in this blog. I'd like to share a few of the fishy things that I've learned and a few of the experiences I've had and hopefully it'll make for some interesting reading.

I'm going to add to this tale of successful bass fishing, that I was using ‘Gulp’ bait plastic worms in particular, the green ones with the bit of sparkle to them was the most successful and Eagle Claw weedless hooks. The best place to cast out is, generally speaking, in or around shaded areas of water where the bass like the hideout. Under rotting logs that are half submerged is also an ideal spot as well I've found. Now bass strike fast and hard opening up that gigantic mouth they have to suck in the bait. So, if you want to catch it you have to strike just as hard once you feel it to set the hook. I will warn you right now, You will from time to time missed the strike. But when you hit it…the results can be fantastic.

 

                                 


 

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