need help on bass fishing please!

[catfish_willi]

[left]i need tips on catching more and bigger bass help would be greatly aprreciated
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[fsh4fun05]

You and me both, I strive for bigger and better. If you could give us some insight on your fishing background, location and what type of waters you are fishing we might be able to narrow it down for you.
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[LLOMichalchik]

Agreed with the above post. Would need more information. What kind of lures do you use? I love using the senko style baits (our Fatties) wacky rigged for bass, and it seems a lot of others do also. Where are you fishing?
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[catfish_willi]

im fishing in mass and i fish i fairly shallow ponds and sometimes streams . the water i fish are most of the tome murky and do inhabit weeds where i fish i catch yellow perch trout catfish bullhead sunfish and pickereli usually use frog top water lurs and nightcrawlers or cllams
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[Paulpro]

remember..big baits catch big bass,I like the 10" power worms or culprit has a 12" worm,and 7" bommer lures or the 7" floating Rapala,might be the J-18,try it on the surface just twich it on top[]
You can melt together some old worms to make a big worm,longest worm I put together was 23" and caught me a nice bass[]

But to be honest most my big Bass are caught on large bait fish..


Here I catch a 5lb Bass on a smaller fish I was reeling in..I just let the Bass try and eat it and got hooked!



[url "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhgA8GqRgb8"] 5:24[/url]
[url "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhgA8GqRgb8"]Great Black Bass attack on HOOKED Peacock bass


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[gdn443]

Here in New England we use a 6" senco type worm in black or watermelon with red flake. These seem to get the big boys to bite. I have tried 7" but seems to big for our fish up here. Plenty of 5-6lbers have been taken on these worms.
If you have some open water try a white spinner bait as well to switch things out.
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[catfish_willi]

just saying its spawning season
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[TheChief]

I'm fairly new to bass fishing--- I shore fish Lake Mead,Sandhollow,and surrounding waters near Las Vegas and need some help.In the last 2 days I've hooked 3 good sized LM only to have them swim at me,jump,and throw the hook.I'm throwing plastics on 10# PLine,T-rigged on a 1/0 worm hook.It seems like I can't keep up with them while reeling.I have cheaper Browning and Shakespeare 5.2 reels.Do I need a "faster" reel or am I just learning the hard way?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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[fsh4fun05]

Bass are good at doing that. I had a pike do the. same thing to me today, I couldn't catch up to it until it was on the other side of my boat. Anywho, you might want to try a larger hook, maybe a 2/0 or 3/0.
I was at sand hollow a couple weeks ago but only fished for a little bit, quail was producing bigger fish so went back there (after getting the boat decontaminated. Fishing should be great at both right now....I keep getting sidetracked lol
5.2:1 5.3:1 are typical for spinning reels I use the Daiwa Exceller reels that are 6.3:1 for the same reason you are talking about. Sometimes you gotta get em to your feet before they know what happened.
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