White Bass Fishing Techniques

The easiest method to fish is with a simple weighted bait rig, which will keep in location in tributary currents and on windy lake shores and allow the fish to run a few feet before the hookup.

Start your setup by adding a little casting weight to your mainline and after that connecting on a barrel swivel.

Add two to three feet of light 4- to 6-pound monofilament or fluorocarbon to the other end of the swivel and then connect on a size 8 to 4 bait hook.

Bait the rig with a minnow rigged through the lips or a worm which should be strung halfway onto the hook, beginning with the head (the fat part) and the hook point extending just listed below the band.

Cast the rig into the water, attract the additional slack, and then wait on a strike.

Summertime white bass fishing is a time for finding schools of fish and then putting the smack down on them with lures and flies.

Use your electronics to locate a school of fish in shallow enough water to reach quickly.

When the white bass are within range, start casting your spoons, crankbaits, and spinners, into the school and bring your lure or fly back to the boat with a quick retrieve, differing the depth with each cast until it gets smashed.

When the bass are eating baitfish near the surface, the topwater action can be absolutely out of this world.

Find these fish by browsing the skies for diving birds like gulls or by literally looking for the fish splashing and jumping out of the water.

Once you discover a pod of feeding, crashing white bass, smack your topwater lures and flies down onto the school, recovering it back to the boat or shore with sharp, quick pops, making the lure look like an injured baitfish.

Use multiple rods fished at different depths, based on the time of year when the fish are most likely hanging.

Combine the rig with a heavy bottom bouncer which will keep the trolling baits close to the bottom where the action of the rig and the bottom bouncer will draw in roving bass to strike.