Late Winter Transition Fishing! (Targeting Bass When Conditions Change)
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- Опубліковано 2 гру 2024
- Come along for a fun evening on the water! Tim is targeting largemouth during a Winter warming trend. A warm storm blew through the area yesterday, causing the creeks to flow warm, muddy water into the lake. Temperatures are rising but the bass are still lethargic.
This transitional time can be really difficult but Tim turned to downsized baits to catch them consistently. We often rely on a blade bait but this time he went even smaller than normal to get fish to react. Late Winter is a balancing act between air temperatures, water temperatures, and fish behavior. It's easy to speed up your retrieves in anticipation of Spring, but we aren't quite there yet.
Below you'll find links to the exact baits and gear Tim used through the video. All the links go directly to Tackle Warehouse where you can see detailed photos and descriptions of each item.
BLADE BAIT...
•Damiki Vault (Holo Silver): bit.ly/2rnO7e2
Size: 1/4 oz
JERKBAIT...
Megabass Vision 110 Jr +1: bit.ly/2LnK389
Color: Kasumi Ito
BLADE BAIT COMBO...
Rod- Shimano Expride B 7'2" Medium Light: bit.ly/2nTq9FL
Reel- Shimano Curado BFS: bit.ly/2QGRVF2
Line- Power Pro Braid (8 lb): bit.ly/2aFg46b
Leader- Sunline Super FC (8 lb): bit.ly/2p7fxju
JERKBAIT COMBO...
Rod- Shimano Expride B 6'10" medium: bit.ly/32IrXqE
Reel- Shimano Aldebaran MGL HG: bit.ly/2uQ4oH8
Line- Sunline FC (10 lb): bit.ly/2h4LNjm
TACTICALBASSIN LURE DESIGNS (AND APPAREL)
We have a variety of custom lure designs and apparel available! Everything from Swimbaits and crankbaits, to hats and hoodies! Its all available direct through Tackle Warehouse with fast shipping. See it here...
TacticalBassin Lure Designs: bit.ly/38YpPIz
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*MAJOR EQUIPMENT WE USE DAILY...
Trolling Motor- Minn Kota Ultrex Quest: bit.ly/41RErpY
Electronics- Humminbird Apex 13: bit.ly/3pdaK1q
Anchors- Minn Kota Raptors: bit.ly/3iMUrEJ
Camera- GoPro Hero 12: bit.ly/3MwQToy
*FAVORITE TOOLS AND GEAR…
Favorite sunglasses: bit.ly/3cLH0kl
Favorite Pliers: bit.ly/3xJFwTu
Favorite life jacket: bit.ly/2odXXIP
Favorite Scale: bit.ly/2f7QgQ9
Favorite Lure Retriever: bit.ly/2TLTJc6
Favorite Braid Cutters: bit.ly/35KSp3O
Favorite Split Ring Pliers: bit.ly/2fT4Qw0
Favorite Storage Box: bit.ly/3U9y4cl
Favorite Net: bit.ly/3kdZ3kA
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The Curado BFS has opened up a lot of opportunities. 1/4oz bladebaits, Karashi's, etc. My mother asked me last year when she found out she had brain cancer, what rod and reel she could get for me. She said, "I may not be here for your birthday or next Christmas, so I want to get you this now (indeed, she didn't make it that long). She got me a Curado BFS and a Dobyns BFS rod, so it's special to me every time I catch a fish with it.
😢 sorry for your lost 🙏🏼☝🏽
Sorry for your loss. I lost my uncle and cousin to the same thing. I hope you catch your PB on that rod and reel.
@@ricalvear6829 Thank You
@@vansaukam799 Thank You
@jamesbarron1202 Thank You James, that would really be something! Sorry about your uncle and cousin, it's hard to see someone you love go through that.
I just wanna say thanks for all the advice! I have never been able to catch bass in the winter time. Recently I went out and tried your techniques of speed cranking and finesse fishing and consistently caught bass all day long. Y'all are the most helpful fishing channel i have ever come across.
Thanks for cleaning up the lake! I always do the same. I hooked "something big" and thought it was a catfish at first. It turned out to be a 6' wooden step ladder- but I landed that sucker! I didn't want to loose my LV-500.
Kudos to you Tim, for not tossing that can back in the water. Salute!!!
Catching the Red Bull was awesome! Once I caught my jig that I had break off the day before. Another time, I caught a small bat that hit my lure as I casted it. Released unharmed. Same with a young herring gull.
Buddy of mine caught a nrx+ with a decent reel on lake Erie over the summer. Combo was still in great shape
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I caught a big owl on a Deps NZ crawler night fishing last year. It felt like a "nice fish" as I reeled it in out of the moonlit sky.
It had a tender foot when I let it go, probably stick to mice and rabbits after that and leave the fishing to the osprey.
I've never hooked anything that unusual, but I found a big yeti tumbler floating around in the middle of Lake Erie with a full rum and coke inside.
ooo I like that question. I once hooked one of those big (650 yard?) spools of monofiliment!
Not even joking! I caught a boot and it was in current it felt like a catfish 🤣🤣🤣 my Dad made fun of me for that one for years 🤣🤣
Ohhhh. Thanks!
I think this is the first time I've seen either Tim or Matt using an aftermarket reel handle
Catfishing with my dad as a kid and he caught a hammer. Crazy part is he had a fish slowly taking line when he set the hook. Been about 18 years and he still uses that hammer at work.
Awesome 👌. Super excited 😄 for you. Thank you for your time.
Very good. Thanks for sharing your trip.
Caught an old school desk at Possum Kingdom once.
Great video keeping coming.
My fishing partner and I had a great weekend, 2 8 pounders in one day and a 3 pound crappie the next day. Throwing a Football Jig in 2 feet of water. Water is almost at the magic 50 degrees!
I caught a shopping cart in the South Platte River. I knew it wasn't a fish, but it was the strangest thing I've caught. Please keep our rivers & tributaries clean & litter free.
I hooked into someone's carp spinning combo that got pulled into the water. The carp was still on the hook !
Craziest thing I caught was a basketball at a municipal lake. At first I thought I had a monster then was like it's a catfish or a branch. That was a pain to get the treble hook out of.
The funniest things caught: my buddy a tampon out of delaware river,😂😂i caught rod and reel combo,shoe.thanks Tim
Tim it was a beautiful Sunday afternoon in Georgia
You did better than I did
Zero for me
Threw your A rig, spinner bait, red rattle trap, and Z’s swim bait
Great video, thanks for the tips, will definitely be out there casting a blade bait this weekend
I pulled up an umbrella style table shade the other weekend. All the wires on it stirred up the mud so I was convinced it was going to be a good sized catfish!
I caught an umbrella one time below Nickajack dam.
Last pawn my jig broke off in a small mouths bed. I tide on a Texas rig and hooked him again, pulled the jig out its throat and caught some biggins on it all season. Still have it in my box 😅
Hooked a nice size size 12 flip flop on time in some Lilly pads, fooled me once
I was fishing a tournament near Dayton Ohio. Was using a ned rig about 10 ft off the bank. Snagged something, got it to the boat to find out it was the ashes of a deceased person. In a nice metal box in a felt bag... Was pretty crazy.
That's funny, my wife caught a pull tab Coors can with a blade bait last week. Probably been down there 40 years or more.
I've caught 2 rocks and I think 3 fresh water clams
I get clamed all the time with a trap. lol
I snagged one those stackable hard plastic chairs..once...got my lure back.
Love the videos and I've hooked a pair of pants and a big trash bag while spybait fishing in the dead of winter though it was a monster
My weirdest “catch” was a soggy pair of panties from the bottom of parksville lake. I posted a picture of the catch to the group page on Facebook asking who’s old lady they belonged to and they didn’t care for that much 😂
I swear there is so much water to fish in Tennessee that you could fish a different creek channel every single day of the year for an entire decade and not even finish half of the waterways. Makes it really tough to choose where to go on any given day
Hey I caught a cabbage patch kid on a crank bait.. scared crap out me at first.. lol
I’ve snagged a doll on a blade bait in January from the Chicago river and I freaked out thinking that it was a death baby. 😂😂😂
Haha I actually landed a cut up quarter section of a decent size tire not too long ago while using a blade bait! 🛞😳 Lol thing was ridiculously heavy too, I was pretty proud of my line and knot! 😂🤙🏽
Strangest for me was I had a freshwater mussel actually grab both hooks of a crankbait. I didn't hook the outside, the hook points were perfectly grabbed in the opening. I didn't know what it was, but I didn't think it was a fish.
Some other strange ones...I caught a 6 foot fiberglass step ladder. It was standing upright even and had dozens of lures snagged on it. My bait came loose before I could grab it, I just saw it under the surface.
I had made a cast once with an LC1.5 (on a spinning rod) and right when I cast a gust of wind caught the line and blew a big loop in it. Right when the bait landed, a pair of geese landed off to my right. My line landed on one of their backs and I didn't realize it. It spooked and flew away, and I watched my first ever $15 crankbait flying behind a goose. Wound up flying the goose like a kite and crashing it back into the water, which knocked the bait free and let the goose fly away.
Last fall I was musky fishing in the collins river here in Tennessee (next time you guys feel like musky fishing that’s the place to go,) while I was fishing a deeper hole just up river of myers cove ramp I hooked into a baitcaster combo and it was the oddest setup ive ever seen. It was a Shimano metanium mgl on a 10 dollar ozark trail rod. Crazy right? Just wait… I pull this thing in and I’m looking at it and everything is fine so I start to reel it in to take the reel off and it starts pulling back against me. There was a 19 inch smallmouth caught on a finesse jig on the end of the line! I wish I had that on camera but it was toward the end of the day and both my batteries on my go pro were dead. Awesome story though and I still use that metanium to this day on my chatterbait setup…
8-14 inches of snow falling tomorrow and temps well below freezing all week. The ice almost melted all the way now its freezing back up :( couple more weeks
It was almost 50 degrees this weekend. And now 8 inches of snow tues.....
Hey Tim ❤️🎣😎👌
A dang rock!
Tin what handle upgrade was on your curado ,thanks brother.
I reel up an entire tree stump, roots and all on the boat catfishing 😂
I hooked a pair of waders in river current. I thought i was fighting a giant river monster for 5-8 minutes.
Once when I was fishing up in Ontario when I was a teenager, threw a minnow on a hook overnight to see if I would catch anything. Ended up catching a heron. Luckily the bird was tired and letvus get the hook out of its tongue. You never know what you'll get
Snagged a bundle of snagged lures and a ton of fishing line once in a bit of current. It felt like vicious head shakes. I was so disappointed, but I did pull up as much of it as a could to clean out the spot and actually kept 2 of the lures because they were good lures.
Also, I can't believe how many little rocks I've caught that have had tiny holes in them that my hook had gone straight into. Like what are the odds that I would come across a rock with a hole in it just big enough for a treble hook to barely slip into nonetheless actually thread the needle mid retrieve 3+ feet under the water 🤔 And I've done it a few times!
Last year I hooked a blade bait, with a blade bait, in 25’. No line attached to snag, the hook caught the eyelet of the blade sitting on the bottom. What are the odds, Should’ve bought a lottery ticket.
Ok, here goes, we use to throw the old Rattling Hot n Tot in early spring and slay largemouth on it. Whilst cranking that old Tot one day I set the hook and boy let me tell you, that padded toilet seat with the back still on it headed for deep water. I was all over the front of my boat fighting that thing, especially when the seat back would fold and then unfold😂😂😂😂 I was terribly disappointed when I got it up to the boat.
Tim hi . Quick question . Do you change out the hooks on the Damiki Vault at all , if so what would you put in place ? .
Thanks Rod
RC Helicopter is the weirdest thing I can remember catching.
Is that an AM handle on the curado? If so, which one & size. Thanks, Tim.
Fishn a squarebill for Walleye and caught an off brand Rainbow Trout pattern small swimbait and pulled it in hanging right across the face of the squarebill
Looking for a high end reel to throw baits weighing 1/8 oz to 1/2 oz. Would the Daiwa Steez CT SV TW 70 work?
Why cant i see the replies?
My texas rig landed inside and open muscle and it closed on my hook tuff to get back lol
I hooked a huge pine cone on a jig at lake Berryessa, fought it to the boat and thought it was a fish the whole time until I could finally see it. 😂
Tim the lake fished yesterday has a lot of grass. Grass and slime on bottom and a lot of grass stems
Can’t throw your speed crank obviously..
Swim jig or speed worms work okay. Tried the rattle trap and chatter bait and they work
Grass lake in Georgia, what’s your thoughts on baits I can try?
I once caught an old boot and thought it was a fish and when I got it to the bank I heard something inside the boot and opened it up and a goby was inside the boot. 😂
I caught a old rusty metal chair one time... hook went right through it.
The weirdest thing was a head band😂
I caught a Vision 110 in Pro Blue once. Unfortunately, it was easily the best thing I caught the whole session.
Caught a crappie pole one time
The collapsible one had cork and hook still on it
First one in lol that’s never happened in years of watching these guys
Cought a bat night fishing. didn't hook it but my line wrapped around it.
Any other color or size you recommend on the blade bait? Been meaning to pick some of those up.
Also I ooze catching decent bass on lighter gear. So fun.
When I was a kid I hooked something heavy and had everyone gathered around thinking I had a big catfish and it ended up being an old coffee can, containing a baby catfish. I got to tell everyone “I told you so!”
The funniest thing I’ve ever caught while fishing was a Rat-L-Trap with a Rat-L-Trap. Yeah, you read that right. Caught the same lure I was using just a different color.
Was this on Hartwell? You guys should start posting which water body you are on.
Lol, I caught a latex glove recently and it was stretched out and the water filled it and I swear it had headshakes and was a fat Sally!
Is hummingbird finally upgrading their forward facing sonar? When is coming out?
I have a question. What rod and reel combo would you recommend for Texas rig fishing a 5 inch senko most time 3/8 tungsten weight?price doesn’t matter to me. I like Very light and sensitive rods.
Tim are you guys ever going to do a review on 6th sense rods & any DC reels? it's long overdue...
I’ve caught a couple rods and reels
Ran right over a snake on the whopper plopper when I wasn’t paying attention and didn’t realize until I got it to the bank and really wasn’t trying to lose the lure so I tried to get close and grab the line and it lashed out and bit me on the hand but thankfully wasn’t venomous😂 also caught a bullfrog on a frog. This was also early on in my fishing journey so I was catching almost everything but a fish.
I actually caught a pair of diapers on a crankbait once. Thought I had a nice one for awhile. Lol
Two things: I set the hook into a solid baseball-sized hunk of quartz amd thought it was the biggest trout in the creek I was fishing; second was a freshwater clam, straight up closed his lid around the hook of my double bladed spinner when i was bank fishing the local lake
I'm curious I've seen people vertical fish these but the bottom hopping looking at the hooks seem like it would get hung up a lot or am i wrong i have a few but hardly use them .
Hey Tim. What color should I paint my trd-9 inch glide bait I live in middle Tennessee
Caught a really nice landing net after a five minute fight lol
I was yo-yoing a lipless and caught a large fish carcass, hooked it right in the mouth too
For me the river up here in part the Susquehanna in my area is nasty there was a coal mining accident back in the day where it collapsed they were throwing rail cars down trying to save the guys so now the water is always rusty and has a sulfur smell but it leads to great fishing but almost every time I go out I catch TP 🧻 where it comes from who knows but most of the time I just cut the hook I won’t no part
What aftermarket reel handle is on the curado bfs?
Hooked a deep diving crank bait by the eye and it fought the whole way back
What depth were you fishing? Were they in ditches/channels?
What handle do you have on the curado bfs?
Hooked a mop 😂
I hooked a sock one time on a crankbait😂😂
I caught someone’s A rig on chick last year. Still have it. I’ve broken it off twice now and resnagged each time. It’s meant to be I guess. Also my buddy lost a carhart 1/4 zip. Never snagged it but watched it sink on side image lol
Lol I lost a a rig year later I snagged it back with same a rig...weirdest thing I ever hooked a bedroom door 🚪 and landed it.😂
My oddest thing ever hooked was a 26-lb boat anchor..
Caught a gallon paint can once. It put up a good fight but I managed to land it 😂
Caught about a 3 oz sinker by the eye. No line on it just the weight. What are the chances a that.
I snagged a plastic bag with a live 4" largemouth bass inside.
I caught a rod that still had a fish on the other end. 😂 catfish
I catch a pair of nice ray ban sunglasses. Then a Nike shoe.
Got a pistol out of the Dora canal in Tavares Fl
Lucky craft 1.5
Caught a cell phone with a LV500 hooked the corner of the case.
Can’t wait until they go on bed!!! Have three lakes with 10 pounders I’m chasing in Georgia
Red and orange jerk bait and bright red zoom trick worm time sooooon🐟💦💦💦💦💦😎