Bass Fishing Research Paper

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The world record bass is 22 pounds and 4 ounces and has been the record for 8 decades! The sport of catching bass has been around since the 1700’s, bass fishing is a fresh water catch and release sport where you use many baits, and lures to hook and catch them. It is important to have good knowledge on bass fishing if you want to have a successful fishing trip, so it’s important to understand the many aspects of it. Knowledge of the largemouth bass species, what you use to catch them, and when and where to catch them. To start off, there are various species of bass all over the world. The most known bass and most fished, is the largemouth bass. Largemouth bass can come in various sizes. They typically eat crayfish, frogs, and lizards. Largemouth bass are a freshwater species that …show more content…
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