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Article #155: What Bass Fishing Gear Should I Take Fishing?

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When you are choosing your bass fishing times. While you may develop a preference
gear, you'll need to make many decisions for one or the other of these, you may
to assure yourself a good chance of find conditions or areas in which a
catching a large number of good sized different type of reel will bring you
bass. Rods, reels, bait, lures, and more better results. For example, if you are
should be considered when packing your fishing under and around the docks with
bass fishing gear, and you'll want to light bait and need to cast into the
make sure you have the equipment in the wind, you probably shouldn't use a
right combinations to produce results you baitcaster, especially if it's windy
want. because you may experience a backlash.
The first rule to effective bass fishing While a spinning reel may work, you run
gear is to never overwork your bait. the risk of catching line twists in the
Pairing your bait with a reel that offers wind. Instead, try a spincast reel, where
the wrong retrieve speed can cause this. the line will unwind freely from the reel
For example, when you try your hand at with no tangles, despite the weather
fishing with a crankbait, you'll find working against you.
that you can present it many ways, but Once you've chosen the appropriate reel
when retrieved too quickly, you get no for the day's journey, you'll need to
results. Crankbaits come in various determine what type of bait and rigging
sizes, ranging from quite narrow for works best with your bass fishing gear.
quicker retrieval to a fat bodied variety Depending on your choice of bait to pair
that lends itself to a very slow with your reel, you may opt for different
recovery. The latter type of bait should fishing techniques in the water. For
be paired with a reel that allows the example, if you take a plastic lure and
crankbait to come in at a slower speed. configure a Texas rig, you will probably
If the technique you are using with your find the best results with either a
bass fishing gear is not working on a baitcaster or spinning reel. On the other
given day, try something else. Increase hand, top water fishing lends itself to
or decrease your speed, but don't baitcasting reels alone. Using soft jerk
overwork the bait. baits, you will probably wan to opt for a
In terms of reels, there are three common spinning reel. Of course, there are
items that are considered necessities in plenty of other types of baits and
your stock of bass fishing gear. Keep fishing techniques, but this gives you an
baitcasting, spinning, and spincast or idea of what to expect.
closed faced reels in your arsenal at all






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