Selection of Spoon Baits for Sea Bass

Here are a selection of spoon baits in various colours and sizes that i use for sea bass. The slim profile lends to distance casting and ease of cutting into an onshore wind, it is also the same profile as many of the bait fish that the bass are feeding on. I prefer to fish with spoons most of the time because they are the most productive for me catching almost all my specimen bass. I use sizes from 15gram upto 40gram depending on such things as water depth, rocky shoreline, sea weed and wave height to get the spoons down to the depth that the bass are feeding without snagging up. It is also good to use a top quality braid fishing line as you can feel the spoon working and also it helps you to impart a good action into the spoon as you are reeling it in. Spoons have a natural wobble all of their own but if you impart a few fast pulls while reeling in and a pause or two that makes the spoon come alive and look like a distressed fish and that is what gets the bigger bass. Colours are also important, some areas work well with tan / silver or green / silver spoons and other areas the bright blues or reds can excite the bass, this comes down to experimentation of bait colours in different water types be they clear, frothy or coloured / dirty. Even the sand eel can be lighter or darker in colour  in some areas so matching the colour can make you more productive.