| Large Mouth Bass Stream Tactics | | | | piles and undercut banks, you will find excellent hiding |
| Large-mouth bass streams are not as beautiful as the | | | | places where large-mouth bass lie in wait for minnows, |
| cool, fast water rivers where the small-mouth lives, but | | | | frogs or aquatic insects and larvae. Weed beds, |
| they have a friendly, restful attraction all their own. The | | | | rushes and lily pad areas are favorite large-mouth |
| river large-mouth is a great game fish-just as he is in | | | | water in streams as in lakes. Under low, overhanging |
| the lakes of America. He will take artificial flies and | | | | foliage along grassy or wooded banks is also a |
| artificial lures at water temperatures that make the | | | | favorite hang-out. |
| small-mouth almost completely a live bait fish. | | | | In 55°-65° water, large-mouth bass feed |
| Large-mouth bass rivers are mostly slow current | | | | freely on nearly everything they can find-minnows, |
| streams with mud bottoms and pretty heavy weed | | | | frogs, crawfish, worms, hellgrarnites, fresh water |
| growth. Many of them are outlets of lakes or just | | | | shrimp, every kind of aquatic insects and larvae and |
| connecting waterways between lakes. Others drain | | | | anything else that falls or lives in the water. They take |
| swamp lands or rush-covered flats, like the St. Clair | | | | on all comers. From this you can see that bass bugs, |
| marshes in Michigan. | | | | streamer flies, bucktails, nymphs and spinner-flies all |
| In the Ozarks, there are a great number of quaint and | | | | look good to the large-mouth. |
| highly scenic rivers flowing down through terraced | | | | I prefer fishing with a bass bug because it's more |
| hardwood forests and picturesque gorges where you | | | | fun-and also I get plenty of bass. The smashing |
| may float and fish for days or weeks-camping out on | | | | surface rises, for one thing, make this about the most |
| pleasant sand ban in the rivers. These are both | | | | enjoyable way of fishing for bass. If the fish are |
| small-mouth and large-mouth streams. There are | | | | bottom feeding, then use one of the underwater fly |
| small-mouth bass in the faster, sand and | | | | methods-a streamer, bucktail or spinner-fly fished deep |
| gravel-bottomed rocky stretches. Then, in the next | | | | with an action handling, or a nymph fished with a |
| mud-bottomed sloughs, you will find large-mouth bass. | | | | natural drift retrieve. Either does well in these |
| In the deep South, all the bass rivers are large-mouth | | | | temperatures. |
| streams. They merge into bayous and lagoons that | | | | Bait casting with surface lures, or drifting with any of |
| form ideal large-mouth water. | | | | the natural food mentioned before, will get you bass in |
| Large-mouth bass in streams seldom feed in water | | | | this water temperature bracket. |
| under 55° F. From this temperature up to 65°, | | | | If the water is murky, live bait is almost a necessity. In |
| you will find the bass in water from 1 ft. to 3 ft. deep in | | | | muddy water, you can sometimes get bass by fishing |
| the evening or early morning; and in water 2 ft. to 5 ft. | | | | very close to stumps, large rocks, and fallen trees in |
| deep in the daytime. The large-mouth will be on mud | | | | the water, as well as at the mouths of feeder |
| bottom; slow-current pools are good places. Along the | | | | streams. This is because the water is clearer in these |
| shore line, near underwater logs, stumps, and brush | | | | places. |