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January Is the Time to Start Getting Ready for Presawn Bass It Is the Beginng of the Spring Spawn JANUARY IS THE TIME TO START GETTING READY FOR PRESAWN BASS IT IS THE BEGINNG OF THE SPRING SPAWN Now that Christmas is over and the New Year is here I hope everyone had the best Christmas of all and I hope you got plenty of fishing stuff from Porters Sporting Goods on Lake Palestine so that you can join me this year! Fishing two of Texas best lakes ever Lake Palestine and Lake Fork. At Porters Sporting goods on Lake Palestine you can purchase just about every thing I use except my Shimmy Shakers, My Big Eye Jigs and my Lake Fork 430 Special Spinner Bait or any of my Top BIG Spinner Baits because I haven't tried to put them in stores yet I have just been selling on line and to my clients that fish with me , but you can count on Greg and his friendly staff to help you find everything else. Greg will be happy to point you in the right direction to find everything I talk about in my fishing articles and make sure you have plenty of new tackle when you come fish with me. Now let's go fishing! You will find fishing in January can be kind of tricky due to the cold fronts and the warm days that we will have. The bass will feed up just before a cold front blows in and then they will get slow and hard to find. When a front hits this is a time for you to not worry so much about catching big numbers but a time to slow down and master your skills of fishing a jig -n -pig and a soft plastic worm. When you fish on the warm days you can generally catch some good numbers on moving baits such as my Lake Fork 430 Special Spinner bait or my Shimmy Shaker and you can get them to hit red Rattle traps and Bomber 6A crank baits in a fire tiger or craw fish color. You can get out on the water just before the cold front hits and fish the lures I named above and at times load the boat with good numbers and big bass but if you want the really big bass learn to fish the cold front and the blue bird cold days. For those of you that don't know what a blue bird day is, this is a bright sunny cold day just after a front blows through and there are very few clouds to be found and this is probably one of our toughest times to catch bass, but if you will slow down and change your style of fishing you can still go home a winner. Now let's talk about this tough time and what we will need to do to catch these big bass during the toughest time of the year. The first thing I will do is re-rig my rods because what was working during the warmer days in November just won't work as well during this time in January. When I rig my first rod I will rig it my New Big Eye ¼ oz. Jig in a black / blue color and as a trailer I will rig it with a Mister Twister Pocket Craw or a Flip'n Out jig trailer. Mister Twister is one of my long time sponsors and Mister Twister builds the Pocket Craw and the Flip'n Out trailers I use. Now I said they were jig trailers but they can be used on a Texas rig fished as a plastic worm. My next rod will be rigged with My Big Eye Jig in the 3/8 oz. size in my favorite color Bk/Blue/Red flake color and my trailer will be a Mister Twister 4 inch pocket craw. My next rod will be teamed up with another Big Eye Jig color Black Brown Amber color with just a hint of green in it, my next rod will be rigged with a black blue Mr. Twister Thunder Worm. The thunder worm has a ribbed wide tail to make the bait fall at a slower pace and the ribs make a slight noise as it falls. Now for my next rod I will rig it with a Tub Jig in a green pumpkin color and I will dip it in my Spike-IT Dip N Glow Chartreuse garlic flavored dye, my next rod will be rigged with MY Lake Fork 430 Special Spinner Bait in a chart/white color rigged with the Mister Twister Split Double Tail Trailer , my next rod will be rigged with the Mister Twister 5 inch Comida worm which is fished by dead sticking. When you look at the Comida worm you will think Sinko but it's not it looks and fishes like the Sinko but its not . It looks very close to the Sinko but the Comida worm looks very close to it , The Comida has a touch more salt and is tougher to make it last longer so you can catch more fish and with that combination you as a fisherman just can't go wrong. Last but not least I will rig up my last rod with my world famous Shimmy Shaker in my new Blue Herring Shad color and my trailer for it will be the Mister Twister Double Tail. If you have not tried the Mister Twister products well you have missed out. Now we have our rods rigged with what I think is the best lures made today for catching cold front bass. Now let's talk about how to fish them during this time. First choose where your going to fish before you go to the lake and the type of water, whether your going to fish brush, creek channels, river channel, rocks or boat houses. If you will make this decision before you get to the water you will save time, gas and wear and tare on your rig. All these choices are good so pick out one and dedicate your time today to fishing just one of the choices and not running all over the lake trying to fish them all in one day. This will normally make for a long expensive day and not a lot of success. If you don't have a map of Lake Palestine then give me a call I have maps and can sell you one for five dollars and it also comes with a four county map on the back of it. Now let's say we choose to fish a creek channel or a river channel, you will fish both almost the same way. I like to try and picture in my mind just how the bottom looked before there was water and then think about all the brush and other objects that may have gotten trapped in the bends next to all the stumps and trees left in the lake. When I get this pictured in my mind I will then think about where Mr. Bass will get to think he is hidden and then I will pitch my Big Eye Jig in a let it fall ever so slow down to the bottom and then I will pick up on my rod and jiggle my lure up and down in the same place two or three times and then I will reel my bait up about two turns and jiggle my lure up and down again. I will then pull up my lure and reposition it back into the spot again. I will normally give a bass about three chances in one area and then I will move over to another spot. When fishing the creeks and river channels I will concentrate on my bends and any lay downs that may be laying off the shore into the channel. These objects will be very productive so fish them very good and let me caution you to wait on your cast until you get strait out in front of the objects and then make short and accurate cast so that you can cover all the productive area and never make long cast to throw over the structure for this will in most cases spook your fish and you won't get any where if you rush into your cast .If you wait you could catch as many as three or four fish out of one top when fished the right way. The lures of my choice when fishing the creeks and river will be the Big Eye Jig and pocket craw trailer and the Comida worm, both lures are great lures when fishing heavy cover. Now let's say we choose to fish the points and brush piles. Here I will still fish the jig n pig and the Comida worm but my first choice will be the crank bait. I will fish the crank bait first out in the deeper water and work myself in to the shallower water covering every inch of the point and after I fished the crank bait I will then go to my tube bait and then on to the jig. Fish slow and then when you think your fishing slow then slow down some more and this will help you to catch more of these hard to catch fish and when you do you can then go home a winner. Now to fish boat houses I like to start by working my boat to one side of the house and fish the shore first and then begin working each set of post to work all the way round to the other side.
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