| Given the choice of choosing between bass fishing | | | | and worms. Then you have worms in just about every |
| and watching old game show reruns on TV, I'm afraid I | | | | size, shape and color combinations you could ever |
| would have to select the latter as my entertainment | | | | possibly imagine. In this category you also have lizards, |
| for the week! My tastes in angling run toward those | | | | grubs, shads, crawfish, mice and frogs, all in |
| species that are more eager to be caughtthan the wily | | | | squeezably soft plastic. I'm not bass socially correct |
| bass. I like to dangle my bait in the water and let a | | | | because I still use minnows! |
| hungry fish drift by and grab it; nothing much more | | | | Just buying bait can be a traumatic experience. I never |
| energetic than that! | | | | like to engage in unnecessary thinking and thoughts |
| Before you can do anything about bass fishing, you | | | | about having to choose among the thousands of lures |
| have to have a boat. This type of fishing seems to | | | | available are making me crazy! |
| operate on the premise that if you can see them, they | | | | Fishing clothes are a different matter entirely. Gone are |
| can see you and they won't bite. This makes fishing | | | | the days when you would see a bass boat with a |
| from shore impossible; you have to sneak up on them | | | | couple of guys in T-shirts and denim cutoffs tossing a |
| from the middle of the river or lake. Unless you have a | | | | lure near a tree stump. Today's fashionable fisherman |
| boat, you can't really call yourself a bass fisherman! | | | | will be wearing a fishing shirt with large pockets on the |
| Purchasing a boat and motor is not an easy job. First | | | | front of the shirt and with epaulets on the shoulders. |
| of all the prices that are being charged for new bass | | | | The shirt would come in a variety of colors, from |
| boats are astonishing! My first house didn't cost nearly | | | | peach to canary yellow. |
| as much as a decent boat costs today. Once you | | | | Regular shorts won't work anymore. Bass fishermen |
| recover from sticker shock and you buy a boat and | | | | of today must wear nylon fishing shorts, with cargo |
| motor, it will have to be outfitted with a trolling motor, | | | | pockets to carry nutrition bars and powdered drink |
| depth finder, and other incidentals you really need to | | | | mixes to pour into their bottled water. The bottoms of |
| hunt down the elusive bass. | | | | the shorts are made of nylon mesh in case the |
| When I'm on the lake or beach, I expect my fish to bite | | | | wearer is thrown out of the boat and has to swim for |
| the bait I throw at them. Mostly I just watch the bobber | | | | his life. If that occurs he'll be suitably attired when he is |
| dancing on the water and wait until it goes under. That | | | | dragged out of the water by rescuers. |
| is not the case with bass fishing aficionados. You have | | | | Other considerations for the bass fisherman are his |
| to have a large variety of lures in your tackle box if | | | | choice of rods and reels and fishing line. Bass rods |
| you're going to fill up the deep well in your brand new | | | | come in a variety of categories; flipping rods, jerk rods, |
| boat. Selecting the right type of bait not only is | | | | short rods and long rods. Reels suitable for bass fishing |
| necessary; it's expensive! | | | | also come in different models. To make sure you have |
| If you troll around the lake with a minnow and hook, | | | | the right one, you should buy one of each and have |
| you're not considered a real bass fisherman. Unless | | | | them outfitted and stored on your boat. Whether you |
| your tackle box contains at least a couple of hundred | | | | catch anything or not, you'll impress other fishermen |
| dollars of bass lures, you're not a member of the club. I | | | | when you meet them on the water. |
| fully suspect that most of these lures catch more | | | | By nature I'm a simple man and bass fishing has |
| fishermen than fish. | | | | become too complicated for me. I'll just doze |
| Picking the right lure is a chore when there are so | | | | underneath a shade tree and wait for a fish to tug on |
| many to choose from. There are swim baits, crank | | | | the line tied to my big toe. |
| baits, jerk baits, twitch baits, slash baits, spinner baits | | | | |