The best bass fishing tips for Kentucky lake fishing

The three top bass fishing lures for the gentlemen heading to Kentucky lake fishing have been found to be plastic worms, spinner bait and crank bait. However it will be foolish if you are to just go ahead and stock up on plastic worms. There are so many things to consider before choosing the lure for Kentucky lake fishing. The depth of the water, the time of the day, the water quality and the weather are factors to consider as well as the techniques needed to ensure that the bass picks up the bait.

Plastic worm are very effective when fish are schooled over a particular structure.
Spinnerbait is faster compared to worms in movement and can be moved quickly in many directions to simulate strikes. Plus it is tangle free. Crankbait on the other hand cover a lot of water very fast and can be used for locating scattered fish. Thus when you are in Kentucky lake fishing, you do all you can to make it easy for the bass to bite and that comes with experience.

Twilight is the time to strike for bass
The biggest bass will move during the twilight hour when the baitfish let down their guard and feed. The advantage for you is that you have the water to yourself as the daytime fishermen have headed for home. You will do well to pick up a plug that looks like a mouse, and a big spent- wing moth that is made from deer hair. The body and wings should twitch as if it is injured and trying to come up for air. Other surface plugs are effective such as chugging, waddling, as well as spinners and lures that squeak and buzz. The most effective is the slim –minnow lure for Kentucky lake fishing—it resembles an elongated minnow at rest, diving quickly when twitched and popping back as if injured!

The water quality
In the low visibility of muddy water, bass uses its sonar to locate the feed. So your lures have to have lots of vibration and noise. Use your heaviest vibrators in a steady pace for the bass to detect them. In the high visibility of clear water, the bass are over cautious and ignore that is out of the ordinary. Fishermen need to use longer casts, almost invisible lures and lines with a black spinner blade to reduce flash. In the normal water, normal algae and plankton filter the sunlight and you will have to use all the variations to find out which one works best.

Using a plastic worm in these waters, you need to improvise on the fly. In turbid water, a hissing, flashing, and throbbing worm with a No. 3 Hildebrandt gold spinner just ahead will get the bass to hear. In clear water, tinier the size of the whole rig, better the catch. You can also use big vibe worms with long curly tails that give extremely strong vibrations, and your score will be much better than the straight worms, which didn’t work.

You can experiment with these fishing rod techniques when the bass doesn’t bite. Skipping under low overhanging branches, ripping three four times to surprise the bass at the bottom, drift trolling in deep holes when there is a slight wind, flyrodding with a single action flyreel and 50 yards of 10 lb monofilament and a six inch weedless worm with a split shot ahead to help it sink slowly. Worm rig properly with a right size of sinker and line thickness and a variable buoyancy worm with lead strip sinkers, making sure that les than 8lb mono line is in play.

Finally the weather is the major factor when fishing for bass in Kentucky lake fishing, especially in early spring and fall. The aggressive bass will attack topwater lures, even in shallow water under overhanging trees. Try the plastic worm as the temperatures rise and the fish begin to get sluggish. Crankbaits work best on bass as they wait near the water drops to get crayfish, crabs and minnows.

The best bait for small mouth bass in rivers is the hellgrammite, larva of the Dobson fly. Use them on 4 or 6 fine wire hooks, drifting naturally through pools and runs below the rapids.