Bass Fishing with Lures

The most important thing about bass fishing is location, location, location. After you have found the bass then the next thing has to be timing, for example what time of tide or even more important what time of day.Many of my large specimen bass were caught in early morning during the change of light and again i have caught a few big bass in the evenings just as darkness falls.In estuary's bass will favour one shore on the way in and the other shore on the way out and you can only find this out is  by fishing each mark through the whole tide or if you are lucky by local knowledge but i wouldn't hold my breath on the latter. If you are targeting big bass they are going to be female and they will have a very definite feeding area that they patrol mainly on their own. I have sat on a cliff top and watched big bass hunting up and down gulleys on an incoming tide, they give each area a quick root around and then move off following the tide along the coastline and are always very close to shore. Believe it or not but i have seen anglers wade out past the bass to start fishing not knowing that the bass were at their feet. Remember the bass are hunting into the shallows so it is better casting to ones left or right along the shore line first before casting far out as you will meet more bass.