Fishing for bedding bass provides many anglers their best opportunity to catch a trophy bass. Though spawning bass are usually easy to spot against their fanned-out beds, catching them can often be frustrating …
Most bass fisherman revert to standard bass baits (jigs, worms and sometimes topwaters) when fishing for bedding bass and more recently specialized sinking worms and soft-stickbaits.
Depending on the stage of the spawn, bedding bass can be aggravated into striking or moving “conventional-sized” bass lures. Much of the time, however, bedding bass will refuse most of the normal-sized morsels dropped into their liar.
When encountering those times when bass are reluctant to strike normal-sized offerings, down-sizing your lure selection increases success for bedding bass!
Three Mini-baits To Cure Bedding Bass Blues …