With warmer temperatures down here, bass are waking up and I have been trying to get the darned critters this past month with different levels of success.
I treat my bass kindly. I buy the finest worms and lizards from Berkley and Strike King. The best designs of hard lures from Rapala, with all the noisemakers and attractants, basically nothing for the best and I get ignored.
So yesterday I toss a Mellow Yellow 6 inch worm from the less sophisticated brand called Zoom just for chits and giggles. They are like $2.50 a pack.
Sumbitches took to it like junkies to free meth in downtown Miami.
I have to see if they make a corndog-flavored lizard or a pulled-pork grub.
Remember, the purpose of lures it to catch the fisherman, sounds like those other lures were successful.
I remember reading something in a fishing book that showed bass remember a lure that hurt them. When it was something they’d never seen, they’d hit it. If they were released and didn’t see another lure for a full year, they wouldn’t touch the same lures again. Yes, this was done with swimming pool sized tanks and a control population in another tank. A full up scientific experiment.
So the key is that you found something that the other people on the lake don’t fish with, and the bass haven’t seen.
” the bass haven’t seen”
Corn dogs then.