Catching bass on beds!!

[SetiNHooKs]

For those of you that have a lake where you can see the bass sitting on the beds and nothings working for you, grab a shakey head hook and a craw and make repeted casts twitching your pole causing the craw to shake.  Eventually any bass will bite.  I found this out today after pulling 15 nice size bass right off there beds after nothing else would work.

[afmarko99]

Did you release them?

Too bad I can't see past a few inches in our murky water.

[SetiNHooKs]

Yea I released them,
I know what you mean about murky water, most water here in FL is murky.. I probably would have caught double the fish if it didn't start raining and getting really windy.  It seemed like I had to really bother the fish to get them to bite so when it started raining the action started to slow down but overall it was fun.  I'm going back tomorrow to see if I can catch a hog!

[OnebitOneTrophy]

I tell you what I was going to start this every type thread. Only asking for help. I work my tail end off today trying to get those fat hookers ( because they only bite if you have what they want) to bite. I got one off her bed. With a chomper watermelon red crawler 5". I had it rigged weightless after about 20 trys she bit.

[SetiNHooKs]

Yes sir, thats the exact way I was doing it.  Some took 30min and some hit it on the first drop after I twitched it a few times.  I havent tried it wieghtless but the shakey head definitely worked for me!  It helps when its not windy and cloudy, then you can see when they pick it up to carry off the bed and just nail them before they spit it out..

[Creel Limit Zero]

Try a white trick worm or white tube.  Really helps you see the bait down there, even with some ripples on the water. 

[T.Mihm]

What about a white or chartreuse craw with a shakey head?

-Trav

[capt ken]

Leave 'em alone when they are on the bed.  Big females are like pregnant women--fragile. 

[SetiNHooKs]

Try a white trick worm or white tube.  Really helps you see the bait down there, even with some ripples on the water. 

Thats a good point, thanks I'll have to try it!  I just happened to buy some white trick worms the other day.

What about a white or chartreuse craw with a shakey head?

-Trav

I sure they would work fine.

Leave 'em alone when they are on the bed.  Big females are like pregnant women--fragile. 

Humm, I havent even seen any big pregnant females.  As long a they swim away there fne right??  The last thing I want to do is hurt any of them..

[RichmondVa]

Here's a tip that my granddaddy taught me back in the day for bedded bass.  When all else fails, or if you just want to catch that bass immediately;

1. tie on your weight and hook as if you were going to texas rig a worm.
2. find a green leaf from any tree and run your hook through it like you would your favorite worm.
3. cast this gently beyond the bed and slowly pull it into the bass's bed.
4. Set the hook and hold on when the bass attempts to clean the trash out of it's bed.

[mlakrid]

Here's a tip that my granddaddy taught me back in the day for bedded bass.  When all else fails, or if you just want to catch that bass immediately;

1. tie on your weight and hook as if you were going to texas rig a worm.
2. find a green leaf from any tree and run your hook through it like you would your favorite worm.
3. cast this gently beyond the bed and slowly pull it into the bass's bed.
4. Set the hook and hold on when the bass attempts to clean the trash out of it's bed.

This is bad advice, a bass will more than likely try and fan leaves and debris off a bed, NOT use their motuh...

Gut hooking any fish is a sure way to invite infection...

If you are catching them to feed your family great, but try to only go after the the fish after they have spawned...

Mike A!

[RichmondVa]

I agree that a fish will try to fan it away at it's first attempt 90% of the time but,,, if you keep putting that "trash" in it's bed, it will use it's mouth to move it if the tail fanning isn't working.  Not sure where the idea of Gut hooking came from.  You set the hook just as you would any other bait.  Not "bad advice" and certainly a technique worth trying if nothing else is working. 

[polingpower]

not worth my time 

[SetiNHooKs]

Whatever that means...