Best blade baits are used principally for catching predatory fish such as lake trout, stocked trout, smallmouth, walleye, bass, winter bass, smallmouth bass, yellow belly/yellowbelly and sea trout, and are particularly helpful in attracting fish as you begin your day out on the pond fishing.

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Can you troll with blade baits?

Blade baits are heavy. ... Depending on where walleyes are holding or feeding in fall, you can cast, jig or troll a blade bait and catch them. Blades look and act like wounded minnows, and so they trigger reaction strikes from walleyes, whether the fish are hungry or not.

Do blade baits work?

The bait really seems to excel when a lake is experiencing a shad die-off in the wintertime. Blade baits are more effective than a suspending stickbait during this time because it can probe deeper and catch fish in the 30- to 40-foot range.

Can you jig for lake trout?

Lake trout go for light lures in general, and jigs are no exception. Try a spoon jig, also known as a wobbler. You can also try attaching lake trout's favorite meal -- a live minnow -- to the jig. Remember, the jig's motion is what attracts the trout.

What lures do stocked trout like?

The best baits for this are Berkley PowerBait and inflated earthworms, but many others work too, including: maggots, meal worms, blood worms, hellgrammites, minnows (live, dead, or chunked), corn, cheese, bio-plastics, and many more.

Can you catch smallmouth at night?

Some nights, smallmouth bass want no part of topwater baits. Other nights, you cannot keep it away from them. The key to topwater fishing at night is to select a lure, which is fished effectively with a slow constant retrieve. Erratic retrieves at night translate to missing fish.

Can fish see lures in the dark?

Bass won't move long distances just for the night. The lures I use most at night are spinnerbaits, topwater, jigs/plastics, crankbaits, and swimbaits. ... And, most of all, the vibration makes it easy for fish to find spinnerbaits in the dark water.

What colors do bass like?

The cellular composition of the largemouth bass' eye is tuned to respond to two colors: red and green. Bass can see these colors well and make decisions with high selectivity based on these colors.

What do winter bass eat?

Sometimes there are long stretches where the winter temperature is right for feeding. When the temps are ripe for eating, largemouth bass prefer fish, crayfish and frogs. Younger bass feed on crust crustaceans, insects, and small fish.

Do smallmouth bass eat bugs?

Smallmouth bass will often take advantage of the additional food during insect season, eating bugs such as cicadas, beetles and other insects that happen to end up in or near the water.

Is yellowbelly good eating?

Yellowbelly grow to quite a large size, over 20 kgs but are best eating at under 2kgs. Yellowbelly are excellent eating as well as an excellent sporting fish and this is the reason so many people stock their dams with them.