The age of the bass

You probably all remember when the "fisherman" urban we once were in our younger days while trying to catch a bass beautiful red lips, asked, what time you go for the bread?, What's your name, how many years do you have?.

Sometimes when we captured a good specimen of bass, especially when it comes to a true "grandma" wanna ask the same question of age, but unfortunately we can not answer it directly.

There are several ways to determine the development and physical condition of the bass, based on its geometry and weight, but not talk about them now, but remembering that fortune in fishing also sits on the box of lures, we know we can estimate of a very simple way the probable age of the bass caught. The method is similar to that used for determining the age of a tree by counting the marks or rings on a trunk section. Here's how:

The first thing to do, being very careful not to hurt our capture, is to take a flake of the medial side of the body, wash it with water and dry. Then you have to watch the scale to the light to be able to notice a series of fine parallel lines that are not anything but rough, which are formed in the scale through each year. Thus, to determine the likely age of the fish, just have to count the groups of lines on the scale, and assign each a winter in the life of the bass. Very simple is not it?.

Common sense indicates that a larger bass is older than one of smaller size and weight, which is usually true for the same reservoir, within its own frame of reference, but not necessarily to a different one. Imagine the reservoir "A" located in warm weather and the conditions of pH, available forage, annual average temperature, etc.., Are optimal, on the other side of the reservoir "B", located in predominantly cold climate without the excellent conditions of the first . If we compare specimens of the same age from both reservoirs, the more likely the Lake "A" are of greater size and weight than the "B".

We know the trend, at least in the case of bass, is that development in cold temperatures is slower than in warm weather and therefore the growth lines marked on the scale will be closer together to each other that in the warm weather.

In return the bass in cold weather tend to live longer than the warm weather. A bass in a cold region can reach an age of 14 to 16, while a hot region can live 10 to 12 years. The bass, being a cold-blooded animal, basa your metabolism mainly water temperature and "burn" faster is the more rapid development, as with an outboard motor that is used very revolutionized during lifespan.

In any talk of a specimen taken aged around 10 years, representing an animal "survivor" that more than luck, survives on that perhaps has developed a special sense of survival and higher genetic characteristics.

In their environment, perhaps a year of bass equals 6 or 7 of us, with the difference that remains a breeding animal (although a large consumer), but tipping the balance towards the conservation of the species and significantly to the transmission of genes conspicuous.

Just try to imagine how many adventures have been through to get to live so many years, so that one day we were fortunate that gets in the way of our bait and end up in the pan or hung on the wall. This should give us a guideline to decide how to treat our catch.

Even if we implement the technique of "catch and release" and that therefore we believe we own the absolute truth, is an undeniable fact that somehow alter the normal life of the bass or the fish get used to capture and hurt they cause pain and stress (even though we believe that the bass does not suffer pain that does not complain or make sounds you to do so). therefore this pattern for handling the fish caught must go beyond "catch and release" in the process ensuring that we implement all our efforts and ability to cause as little damage as possible, which also adds an ingredient you especially fishing.

There are sport fishing page it belongs to this writing, several excellent articles about how to handle the fish once caught, so it is widely recommended reading.

If we practice and spread the practice of catch and release with the appropriate care in the process, we will increasingly scale with more parallel lines within them

Finess Fishing

Fishing for bass with plastic worm is one of the most effective ways to catch bass, the worm resembles somewhat different food items and make this lure one of the most sold, applied for and used by bass fishermen in the world .

Much has been said and written about fishing worm, the fact is that the plastic worm has over 50 years in the market and remains a decoy force. Half of the bass tournaments in the United States has earned plastic worm, and that we are including plastic worm versions of salamander, crawfish or shrimp and other rare forms that have appeared recently in the market.

Why is the plastic worm is so popular? The main reason is because bass fishing, in addition the plastic worm can be used in almost any condition and in any manner, except trolling, perhaps its only limitation is that it is the best bait when the water is very cold.

The worm can be fished in very shallow waters to deep enough. The worm fished slowly so it can entice more inactive bass. The material itself is made that the worm gives a consistency that retains bass longer in the mouth. Additionally it is easier to have and retain flavors or attractants.

The choices of sizes, colors, consistencies, flavors, actions, etc. allow us to make an array of pure plastic, proper use of each of them we can offer options to our favorite prey.

When we go fishing we want is that: fishing. But there are days that just are not biting humor, do not react to any lure and the day is frustrating. The bass is not the "mood" for several reasons, one of which may be the presence of a cold front, or has been under pressure for a tournament or excessive movement in the water: skiers, speedboats, variations in the level water, post spawning, etc.. The bass is finicky, tense, stressed.

One option that we have prepared is the finesse worm. If we translate the English word Finesse means delicate, fine reduced. Thus it is a presentation of the worm "reduced" to which we will use a lighter equipment: line 6 to 8 pounds, weights of 1/16 to 1/8 ounce, worm hooks of # 2, # 1 or 1/0 and worms 4 or 4 ½ inches. To deal more adequately with such lures it is best to use spinning equipment.

The finesse fishing technique was originally developed in the Western United States in deeper lakes with clear water, crystal clear. The normal display of the earthworm represented a disadvantage for the angler and the bass line and refused to detect the worm attack. Don Iovino, who is known as the grandfather of finesse fishing with worms, developed a technique that allowed him to win tournaments and catch all the competitors, fishing consistently good-sized bass.