In addition, there are many ways to catch bass. There are many categories of types of bait, there is live bait, such as earth worms, shiners, minnows, blue gill. Putting live bait on your hook can be ideal for more calm and relaxing bass fishing by being able to set your pole somewhere and let the live bait do the work. Bass will have a stronger attraction to this bait because of the real smell of bait fish or worms, because of what they are used to. On the other hand, there is the second category of artificial lures which can be either soft plastics or hard plastics. Soft plastics can consist of worms, lizards, crayfish, and paddle tail swim baits. There is also hard plastics which can consist of crank baits, jerk baits, swim baits, swim jigs, chatter baits, and top water lures such as frogs, spooks, and spinner baits. Artificial lures are for more advanced fisherman, this is because all the baits serve a different purpose for different areas in the water. Artificial baits can come in many different colors, ranging from green pumpkin to even bubble gum pink. The use of different colors is for the opacity of the
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