Westernbass Magazine June 2011, Page 6

Westernbass Magazine June 2011, Page 6

“KITCHEN SINK” BASSIN’

JUNK FISHING

By Randy Pringle

W

hen you have eight rods on the bow

of the boat, you know you have

pre-spawn, spawn and post-spawn

fishing going on. Pick your poison, crank baits - shallow and a deep runner, slow top

water, fast top water and don’t forget your two

flipping sticks. Oh, did you want to pitch a jig? Now

let me count them! That’s seven, I said eight. That’s

right, the spinning rod with light line that makes

eight. Now you are fishing with the “kitchen sink”

approach. This time of the year can find success

using many techniques, which means it’s a great

time to practice them. The key is not to be locked

into one technique. Don’t force feed any one bait on

the bass, as they can be fickle this time of year. You

can see a lot of cruisers lurking about in the water,

but they can be tough to catch so don’t spend all

your day trying to catch them. Time is too short

and days off from work are too precious to waste

on trash fishing. I can tell you from my experience,

I have tried to force feed

Mr. and Mrs. Bass on

scheduled filming days.

Let me tell you, that the

bass never get the memo

on what they were

supposed to eat,

when the camera is rolling. Eighty – five percent of these film days just suck. Can I say that? Oh well, I did!

Finally the day arrives that you have been waiting to go fishing and it turns out to be a flat, calm day when you arrive. You have checked the weather from the past three days, the temperatures – highs and lows and what the future forecast might be. All this information is like putting together a puzzle, whereas you need to have all the pieces you can get before you start throwing your line out. You know, I hate to put a puzzle together and end up with a few pieces missing. A lot of times that is how my fishing day goes, most of the time it is because I miss something. Bass fishing and putting a puzzle together is the same thing. Don’t go into your day stuck on what you’re going to throw, you could be… tossing the kitchen sink at them; throwing everything you have available in your tackle box.

I would like to break it down a little for you with some of my favorite baits. To approach the calm days, I like to throw an Optimum 7-inch OB Minnows Wake Bait or an ima Roumba. With both of these baits, I use 20 to 25 pound Mono as this keeps the bait afloat with some stretch when the big bass hits. A slow methodical retrieve giving the bait a side to side wobble. Too fast, the bait submerges, too slow, the bait just drags towards you. Next is the Persuader’s Pop

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