berkley fish grip BTLCFG Coated Gloves, Pink : Fishing Pliers And Tools : Sports & Outdoors Positive locking jaw action holds your catch until you release it Berkley Big Fish Gripper

It awesome to watch a top water strike, but subsurface is where youre going to catch numbers of fish

336448 55.2 KB There are other lures that benefit from twitching: the 2.5" Floating Rapala a good example

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And the right line will make certain applications easier to fish like braided line with frogs in heavy vegetation or finesse fluorocarbon on a drop shot to be ultra stealthy in clear water like when chasing big smallmouths up north

So a lot of bass fishing revolves around cover like stumps, standing timber, laydowns, grass beds, lily pads, docks, rocks, structures like wing dams, rip rap walls, seawalls and more