Do-It Yourself Improvements for Pontoon Boats

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Fishing with Your Bass Boat

• Use Your Boats Storage for All Your Needs
• Aluminum bass boats and crappie boats have plenty
  of storage space for all sorts of different bait
  and lures. Bass tend to eat different types of
  bait depending on what time of year it is. If
  youre fishing early in the season, use
  peach-colored patterns in your bait. During this
  time of year, bass are looking for crawfish,
  which peach-colored bait can mimic. Tell your
  friends who take their welded aluminum Jon boats
  out in the summer or fall they should use chrome
  or silver baits, which mimic the shad bass are
  looking for.

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Dont Bother The Bass Bass are ornery fish. If
you keep tapping at them with your lure, theyll
eventually attack your hook. Bass arent going to
just swim up to your aluminum boat. They like to
position themselves in cover (like seaweed or
under old docks), and prefer when the lure is
presented to them from various angles. You may
have to stop and anchor your small fishing boat,
and toss the lure into the same area 100 times
before finally getting a strike. Dont Discard
Damaged Worms When your plastic worms and leeches
get torn up, save them. Bass like ambushing
wounded prey, so a damaged plastic worm can be
the perfect bait to use, especially in shallow
water. Loading up the livewell in your aluminum
boat with a lot of bass is the ultimate goal.
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Cast Against the Wind You will lose some distance
in your casts, but its best to fish with the
wind in your face. Bass swim with the current. If
you cast against the wind, they will see your
bait before they see your small boat. Also, the
slapping sound of the water against your hull
will carry away from the area that youre
fishing. Fool the Bass with Red Lures In shallow
cover stumps, wood, clusters of grass try
using a spinner bait with a pink or red head, or
a crank bait with red hooks. The red color will
make the fish think the bait is alive and
injured, and they will bite at it. Aluminum jon
boats from Lowe Boats, Lund Boats, Princecraft
Boats and Cresltiner Boats are great shallow
water fishing boats.
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Check the Water in Your Livewell Aluminum boats
with livewells give you an added advantage. Bass
are notorious for spitting up whatever theyre
feeding on when you place them in a livewell.
With this info, you can tell what color lure or
kind of lure is most likely to attract additional
bass the rest of the day. The Calm Before the
Storm The best time to fish for bass is before a
storm front comes through. The worst time to fish
for them is after a storm. The pressure of an
oncoming storm makes the bass much more active,
so keep an eye out for clouds moving in. If the
weather is absolutely perfect, the bass are much
less likely to strike at your bait.