Fishing the Time Away

With the coronavirus lingering, it’s left everyone with quite a bit of time on their hands. With it getting hotter, the bass are moving up preparing for their spawn. This is when you catch the biggest fish. The bass are getting ready to lay their eggs causing them to be very aggressive and protective of their eggs. While most of us are no longer in Conway, their are tons of lakes, rivers, and ponds in the state of Arkansas that are all experiencing this type of behavior in their bass. Since the start of the break, I’ve fished many places and have found success throwing spinner baits, crank bait, various types of worms and jigs. My favorite type of method of worm fishing is either the Texas rig, where you have a simple slip shot weight and worm hook with the worm weedless on the hook. Or drop shotting, drop shot set ups are a little more complicated: you have to first tie the small hook on the line around a foot to foot and a half up the line leaving the rest to tail off the the end of the hook. Then tie a drop shot weight off the end then hook the worm head on to the hook. You will get a lot of bites at the end before actually landing the fish. Drop shotting the bass when they’re on their beds allows the bait to stay in place for as long as you wish.