Bass Fishing: A Beginner's Guide on a Budget

Bass fishing, the basics on bass fishing and how to get started and it being difficult and harder than expected. Bass fishing on a budget, or for under one hundred and twenty five dollars yes this may seem like a little but you can spend less people argue that it don’t take that much to get started. First off you will want to find a bass fishing rod that suits you there are plenty of different types of rods and preferred rods but to me the best rod is a graphite rod. They all differ in size, strength, the reels, and the eyes of the fishing rod. These are all a really basic things that you want to research and look at for beginners and people new to bass fishing because on my point of view bass fishing is not as easy as people argue it is.

After you have done your research on the different types of rods and rod types then you have to select the type of reel you want to use that will be easy enough for you because again the fishing reels are argued all the time which is better and what is the best to use to me the best to use and to try out is the open face. There are the three main types of reels starting with your basic push button, then you have the spinning reel or open face as it is known, and then you have one for you people looking for a challenge the bait caster. Now you have your rod and reel selected you will have to choose a fishing line preferable to the size of the fish you think you will catch. For a beginner I would use a line ranging from at least eight pounds to 15 pound test. This is arguable but this is the best line to use that I would use this is ranging between the fish to be caught, but these are the best pound line to use from my opinion. A great brand to start off fishing with would be Abu Garcia there rods are great and they range from about thirty to two hundred dollars for their rods and reels but they are amazing but this is my opinion and I recommend this because people call these rods crap but they work great and last for a long time and it don’t cost way too much for them. Now you have all of this selected you will now have to choose your bait fake bait or live bait either way you will eventually catch fish but live bait is just live crickets, worms, or minnows which is live bait you have to wait and that’s boring you would rather be doing something all the time and reel fake bait. Then you have fake bait that come in all kinds of different styles from plastic worms to hard plastic crank baits. The best baits to use are a plastic worm and you want to choose colors of the fish around there. But the worms are best because they are just liked by bass. For your rod and reel and also bait of either type to start you out on bass fishing should range nowhere near the one hundred and twenty five dollars it should be under at about a good eighty dollars or so to have everything you will need to start off but that’s just to my guess and how much I would spend for what I consider the best stuff.
Now that you are into bass fishing there are plenty of other things to check and find to catch fish it is not as easy as one two three, you have now got everything you need but now you need to find somewhere to get permission to fish.

After you have got permission to fish you will want to check the weather and the temperature of the water and check all these things because they are key to fish bites. Also color and seasonal fishing lures that will get bites at certain times and colors that work for different water colors and then where to cast to catch big fish compared to small fish. The ideal lure for beginners would be a crankbait they are a basic reel in slow or fast depending on the time of year, but color choice for any bait is based on what? There are three things that a good fisher man will look for before choosing bait they use, clarity, condition, and confidence. An easy way to pick the baits out are look at the food the bass have in their habitat including shad, crawfish, and bluegills. These consist of the colors red, orange, brown, white, silver, grey, blue, and yellow sometimes. Then the key to using these baits are finding the fish and where they are at and getting it to them in the right presentation for them to take it. Like deep water or shallow water fishing either way is a good way to fish its just all in finding fish and presenting the bait to them so they will take it and bite. Like for a person of choice most the time a crankbait is used for deeper water and then the worms are for bank or shallow water fishing catching the bass on the beds or swimming near the banks looking for food. Then you have spot fishing on or near the shallow water and that is all about presentation and the best way for that is flipping and pitching. These as two styles to present baits to the bass in shallow waters and picking spots to get it in near the spot where the fish

are.
Once you get good at this and you have now started to master the techniques and skills to be a bass fisherman you will need to get a boat if you don’t have one if you want to take this to the next level. Now you can basically go enter tournaments and fish with a partner and try your luck fishing against other people and catching fish in different lakes and rivers and ponds. But before you do this you need to study the structure of the lake and do little pre fishing in the area so that you have an idea of the structure the fish are hiding on or in. Pre fishing is a thing that some people consider cheating but that’s a key thing to know what you’re doing because then you will know about where they are and what they like and bite. Including this in there you will need to practice looking for structure on your fish finder and looking for structure you can see such as trees, tree stumps, rocks and more and again this is another thing people don’t have and call this unfair but this is completely fair and useful so take all this to advantage and use them. These thing give bass cover to hide from their prey and then when there food swims by they swim out and grab them and eat them. A good thing to try is during the summer take a top water bait and cast it over these cover spots and depending on the bait pop it or swim it over it and this will look like a lizard or crickets, mice, and frogs. Bass will eat these things also snakes too. They will come out the water grabbing the bait on the top of the water because they see it and believe it is one of these things coming across them on the top of water and will try to eat them. One of the best fighting types of bass and fun bass to catch are the bass out the rivers because they are so aggressive and they fight back with so much strength because they are so strong from swimming in the rivers. The best fishing you will ever try is on the river and that’s a fact from me in general.
Another thing is getting hung up which would happen often on the river because the current and the trees hanging over the water but there are plenty of ways to get unstuck and if these don’t work then you have to cut your line and lose one bait. Some ways consist of it being hung in tree limbs or rocks and if you’re able to get to it one way is to reel down to the bait as close as you can reel to it and push it off with the rod and pull it out. If you’re not able to get close enough to the bait then just take and jerk your pole a little bit like jigging it and try to make it work its way out and get free. If these things do not work then you have to cut the line and lose one bait, but now we will get into owning your own pond or a small private lake and learning how to grow and keep our fish from being small but have multiple fish at the same time. You will need to do some managing and taking out so many fish so that the other fish can grow and grow bigger and bigger so that you and your family can catch them. By doing this you’re managing your pond and keeping it from being over stocked and having to many fish and being all the same size because they cannot grow. All these things play a big part in bass fishing and if you do all these things and follow them you will be able to produce big fish back to back and make your fishing stories come true.