Rig Ready Box for Bass
by
Ken Sturdivant
Southern Fishing Schools Inc.
Fishing for bass with all the baits in
a boat or a tackle box will make for lots of distractions. What color?
What size? Soft baits or hard baits? Bright baits or clear baits? Which
baits can you use and which baits are you not familiar with? Here is
a solution.
Take one flat Bass Pro Shops tackle box and make 6 or 8 compartments
inside the box. Now here are the baits to put in the box. Always have
some
white and green Zoom Trick worms and a few 2/0 Owner offset hooks. Use
these same hooks in a Zoom U tail worm June bug. Add some 3/16 and 1/4
ounce bullet sinkers for the Texas rig. Put some small plastic beads
in the box to add the Texas rig. Put four Rat L Traps in the box, two 3/8
ounce and two 1/2 ounce and mix up each color. Add two #5 and two #7
Shad
Raps in shad, blue back and fire tiger.
Add two Pop R's top water baits
along with two Spittin Image lures. These colors should be shad or
bream patterns. Always have a Bang A Lure or a # 7 Rapala, one black
with a
silver side and one with a gold side and black back. Carolina rigs require
beads,
swivels, 3/4 ounce lead sinkers and the same 2/0 Owner offset hook.
The Carolina rig is easy to fish with but remember that all you feel
is the
heavy sinker. The Super Fluke by the Zoom bait company comes in several
colors. Pick baby bass and all white. Add some Venom glass rattles
to the tackle and insert them inside any of the soft plastics including
the
Super
Fluke. The finesse worms from Zoom make great lures for spots and
largemouth. But use a small Charlie Brewer Spider Head jig in the 1/4
ounce size.
Anything green will work. Spike It makes several colors of their marking
pens and
these pens are loaded with garlic. Paint the soft baits by adding
red spots, black lines bright tails and heads and let your imagination
run wild
with
the pens. Some of these soft lures do not come in all colors and
adding color
and scent is a bonus.
Jigs and soft plastic trailers work very well for
bass all year. Carry three colors of jigs, pumpkinseed, black and brown.
Add either a Zoom soft plastic frog trailer or add the Uncle Josh pork
in matching or contrasting colors. Now look in the box. This box has
almost
every size, style and type of baits for bass, either spotted bass,
largemouth bass or small mouth bass.
