Bass Fishing - The Rising New Sport?

Once a necessity action for putting food on the table, who would have really thought that bass fishing could evolved into a thousand dollars competition featured in popular national sports channel? Many scoffed at this idea, but the overwhelming appeal from the mass for bass fishing have prompted many to consider watching, and even joining this sports! Because after all, how hard can fishing be?

One thing that bass fishing stands out from the others is that you are essentially competing against yourself, and when it comes to knowledge about your opponent, you are technically in the blind. There is no pinpointing as to who is your main threat to the competition is, as such there really are no standard set and as such your biggest enemy is actually yourself, or how you surpass your previous achievements and give the best you can. Much like any other form of gathering task, you will need to understand where your prey is, and in this case where these bass fishes are hiding in abundance before you can even formulate a strategy to catch them.

One of the most common mistakes committed is to think that all lures are essentially the same, when they are in fact very different from one another! This is exactly what singles out an individual who wins the competition or someone who just fish enough for dinner tonight. Understanding the usage of different lures in different scenario is the very first step you need to fish, and to eventually win the competition.

Basic lures and gears aside, bass fishing will also requires a very specific set of skills such as the casting of the lures. Bass fishes tends to congregate in difficult areas such as one with fallen logs, and as such learning how to get your cast to where you want it to be accurately is essential and important if your want to win.

This is not only limited to those confined area, you are dead wrong to think that no skills are required when casting in open clear water. An overly large lure in the open water is only going to do one thing, which is to startle those fishes and scare them away. Slowly retrieving in a way where it lure the fishes instead of scaring them is the edge an experienced fishermen have, and this is just one more element to master in bass fishing.