How to Find & Catch Spawning Bass - Greg DiPalma
On The Water
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31m
Bassmaster Elite Series tournament bass fishing angler Greg DiPalma is ready to take you through a day of bed fishing for spawning bass. Getting started in the parking lot, Greg talks about the Humminbird/Minn Kota electronics he relies on to locate bass and stay in place while sight fishing. DiPalma breaks down 3 primary baits & tackle he uses: a power technique, a finesse approach and an super finesse approach. Once in the water, learn how DiPalma scans the shoreline looking for beds & fish. Find out how he approaches beds differently if he's practicing for a tournament than when he's in a tournament or fun fishing. Lastly, watch as Greg leans into a couple of bass and puts some big prespawn, spawn and postspawn bass in the boat on this day on the lake on a Northern fishery.
0:20 Electronics for spawning bass fishing
3:45 What is the spawn? When does it happen?
5:55 Reading behavior of spawning bass
7:33 Do you catch the male first?
8:09 Baits for catching bass on spawning beds
11:54 Working with conditions for the best sight fishing
12:42 Being stealthy with shallow water anchors
13:23 Marking beds with waypoints
14:21 Trick for seeing through water surface pollen
15:11 How to mark beds in tournament practice
18:09 What do beds look like & where do you find them?
19:45 More of reading bedding bass behavior
20:16 Blind bed fishing
20:45 Fishing for a spooky spawning bass on a bed
26:30 How long do bass stay on beds?
27:26 Fishing prespawn targets while looking for beds
29:36 When they swat at it, that's a good sign!
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