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Bass Fishing Bait
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Jul 19, 2022
Bass fishing bait is used all over the country. You can get it in your yard, fishing store, retail store or online. Choosing the right bait is quite important. You need to stick with things that work in your area. Some baitfish don’t live in the cold. Others only live in the cold. However, there are some things that can be used anywhere in the world. Live bait fishing is one of the best ways to fish efficiently when you are time strapped. I believe it is a great way to start off if you want to try this whole fishing at work thing yourself.
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Hello, I'm Dwight Norris of FishingNetwork.com and today we're going to be
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talking about bass fishing baits but first and foremost let's get to the best
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topic of all. Yesterday the Boston Red Sox won the World Series at LA. It was a
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great great series that one game that went to 18 innings. A little bit long. I
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didn't stay up I went to bed around you know one o'clock like a semi normal
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person would but I tried my best but man it was long so back to bass fishing baits now when I'm
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going to talk about bass fishing baits I'm talking about live bait and there are a variety of baits
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you can use for fishing bass for bass fishing um and many of them maybe you haven't tried or
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thought about or they're just not really available and you're not not that type of person that likes
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to go out and catch your own bait. So one of them everybody knows it's a worm
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They're everywhere. They're in your yard, they're in the fields, they're in the
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gardens, they're next to the water, and the streets when it gets wet they start
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drowning and they come up and that's when the old early morning bird comes out
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and gets the early worm and has a great meal. But you could also collect them that
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way yourself and there's really no great name for them there's called earthworms
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that they're in your normal neighborhood and they work pretty well you know fish
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sees a worm it's gonna eat it but there are other types one of the others which
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you can actually get either online or in your local fishing store will be
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night crawlers they they're more of a you know nocturnal kind of a worm that
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come out and go closer to the surface when it's when it's darker outside and
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for all intents and purposes they aren't really that much different. They're a
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little bit bigger per se. They are around your local area but
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you'll have a hard time actually finding them unless you know how to dig and you
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know what the difference is between an earthworm and a night crawler. Nightcrawlers are more
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toward I believe the northern states up here in Boston and up into Canada but
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you can get them online, you can get them at your local store, Walmart, at your bait shop
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They got most things, particularly worms. And after that, you have your European worms, which I kind of like because they're big and fat
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And they're really long as well, which makes more bait for you
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So if you're fishing for smaller bass and you want to actually conserve how many worms you want to use
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because you know they are cheap you can slice that puppy up into four maybe five little pieces
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and get a nice size bass off each one but if you want the big the big boy you always know you have
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to go to the bigger baits and you also have to go to the bigger live baits so you have to kind of
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call the other fish calling means you know by going bigger or out of their size range they
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can't actually eat it they'll nip at it they'll they'll peck at it but they won't actually will
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consume it so you won't actually get them on a hook. Therefore when the big boy
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comes in and suck the whole thing in that's the one you'll catch so it makes
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it a little easier for you but you know little tiny fish pecking at your line
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will kind of make you a little angry piss you off a little bit like get away little punks I'm trying for the big boy the lunker. There is another new technique
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which is if you don't want to pay for worms you can actually start your own
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little composting bin slash compartment. They have trays and at each level you
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put in different types of food items and there's a worm that's really good at
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composting things and it's called a red wriggler. That's what it's called online
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You can get it on Amazon. Sometimes you can get it at a little base shop but not
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really. And any place that sells like composting like a Home Depot or Lowe's
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may or may not have it but I don't think they actually carry it too often. not really, they carry the food
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they're little rock pebbles that the worms need to eat with the composted food that comes down
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which helps them digest They don really have that great or really any digestive system They consume stuff and it goes down the pipe and goes out the other side So when they eat little microscopic pebbles along with the food they able to break it down and that comes out and adds with some other
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stuff and becomes compost. Highly concentrated nutritional dirt for your gardening purposes
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Now if you're not into gardening, then whatever. Red regulars are kind of skinny. They're small
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You can get them in the eggs. You can grow them. They'll just, you'll get more and more and more
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And, you know, if one worm isn't enough, use two. Use three
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It doesn't really matter. It's still a big old worm when you put it on a hook
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So, that's an option. Also, there's bloodworms, which in the past, I used to think were the greatest thing
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I like, when you hook it, all the blood comes out. I'm like, oh man, these fish are going to be on it like a shark
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they're gonna smell all that blood in the water the blood trail and be able to
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follow it straight to my worm which does happen that actually does happen if you
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actually leave your worm in there long enough but usually a bloodworms gonna be
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found pretty quick by probably a smaller fish and it's gonna go to waste for a
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while so unless you have the money to spend and you have them readily available
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Sometimes they run out because I'm not sure how you breed a blood worm or where they're actually found
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It's kind of weird, honestly. But that's for you? Cool. They aren't too bad to handle because they do bite things, but not you
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Their mouths aren't big enough. But one worm that can bite you is a sea worm
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It has pincers, it's big, it's hairy, and it can bite you
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And it will hurt. It's kind of like a centipede biting you. That's for the sea
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If you want to catch a, oh, I'm losing my mind here, fluke, i.e
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flounder, or even some smaller striped bass, sea worms where you got to go
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Nice sandy flat bottoms, kind of like where it is out in Gloucester, and also near Quincy
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which is just north and just south of the Boston Harbor. Or honestly, the Boston Harbor itself
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but like the northern and the southern part of the Boston Harbor are, there's nice little flats there
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And the fluke, summer fluke and the winter fluke, love it. And I honestly haven't got out there because I haven't got my port-a-boat yet
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I need a port-a-boat because it's portable. I don't have any parking space to put a real boat
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And I need to be able to pull inside so that nobody steals it. and the weather and environments don't destroy it, which clearly states don't leave this thing outside
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It might not work so well after the winter, especially around here
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So that's my reason for wanting to get that. And inflatables are great too
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I'm honestly thinking about just getting the inflatable. Even though it's almost wintertime, I made a decision I wanted to get out there
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And I still want to spend the money. I'm like, oh man, if I get the portable, I won't need the other boat
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But what's wrong with having two boats? Nothing. Nothing's wrong with having two boats
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It's awesome. Go do it. Another great bait, another great bass fish you made is something that's more or less found down south
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Georgia, Florida, the southern states around Texas and Alabama and Mississippi and all that stuff
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It's called the Golden Shiner. It is the number one bait fish down there and you can catch it yourself
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It's pretty cool. They school around the weeds and the forward and the structure and stuff and you can pull
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them out by just giving them some food. A little hunks of little bread like you're feeding a duck or something
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Some dog food, cat food, some like cornmeal. Really anything. They see stuff floating on top of the water
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They want to eat it. They actually have baits, kind of like when you're chumming out in the sea
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You can drop it there, leave it for a couple hours, maybe even half a day
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They'll collect, and then you can throw your casting net over top of them, and gather them up
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Because honestly if you were a guide down there fishing you going to need 50 of them per person because the fish are going to be lighting those things up It doesn matter what year it is
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I just heard a huge lightning bolt. I thought it was sunny because it looks nice and blue over here, but over here, it ain't nice
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So it looks like I'm going to get wet on the way back to the office, but I'm going to keep
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this video going. I got my list here of things I want to talk about. I'm going to get this done and hopefully a lightning bolt won't strike me down
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So about the Golden Shire, they do have those, you can cast them in on that over it
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But you can also use the, they have like traps, kind of like a lobster trap
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And you can use that and actually put the stuff in there and they'll actually capture them in it
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And then you can just pull them up and boom, you got them. You can make sure you have them aerated. and another great thing is a shad and one of the most popular types is a threadfin shad
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and they've gotten really popular oh now it's now it's raining great uh and those are more southern
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fish as well and you can use those to fish as well not too many of them are up here really this
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is more of a minnow and herring area up in the northern areas because both of those fish don't
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like the cold so when you go down south below I'd say North Carolina, South Carolina look for your
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golden shiner and look for your shad. I'm actually gonna no I'm gonna keep going that's gonna get wet
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next is crayfish. Crayfish are awesome they're actually around here they're down my place in
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Virginia they're down south they're down everywhere and when they're readily available a bass will eat
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them about 80% of the time. It'll be 80% of their actual meal. If they can find them, they're easy
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to catch. And when they're not easy to catch because they're a smaller bass, one to three pounds
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they'll actually nip off the claws first so they don't get, you know, clawed. Just the same way we
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put the rubber bands over them. And then they'll eat it when it's totally defenseless. They're slow
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and they're nutritious. Around here's the heron. I'm going to start rocking because it's
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Obviously it's going to be better if I'm halfway back to my job when I get soaked rather than no actual advancing at all
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So the next thing is herrings around here. There's runs. There's a run in the spring around May
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There's another run in the fall that's much smaller, which most people don't really recognize, and the striped bass don't actually follow them
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During the spring run is the blueback herring. and that run actually happens
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by the millions. They're everywhere. They're flipping. They're jumping everywhere. It's freaking crazy
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And the striped bass actually follows them in and they're just lighting them up everywhere. They go all the way down to my house
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where the dam is and boom. I can actually walk down the
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street and possibly catch a 30 pound striped bass. I only say that
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because somebody else did it not but two years ago. and I was like, dude, night fishing
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Oh my God, it was right here. I could have been striper fishing almost at my house
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And I'm not even on the sea. Sometimes you don't have to be
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you don't have to be a waterside living to have that kind of life
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Sometimes it's just down the street. Just get near a body of water that has fish in it
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and something will happen, especially if you do your research and figure out what's happening in your neighborhood
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But that's why it's great to make relationships with people around you
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Talk to the fishing shop people. Talk to all the people who sell all the fishing gear
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The manufacturers, the repair people, the boat people, the charter people. And maybe some of them will want to keep their secrets and not tell you jack
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That's a lot of people. And other people will be very free. Oh, dude, I was over here. I was over there
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They're biting during this time. This is when they run. You want to be over here. When that's happening, sometimes people like to figure your property
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but you can go over to this spot and make that happen. And that's great information to know
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So, here's where we get to the weird stuff. One, panfish, bluegills, sunbream, pumpkin seed
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Yes there are bass that eat those too Sometimes in the south when the bass get really big I talking like 5 pounds they start chasing those boogios around And not because they actually eating their eggs because they actually trying to eat them
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They're hungry. And when that hunger starts, they're going to start chasing just about everything that's
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smaller than them. Even their own species. That's why people love bass
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They don't care. You look smaller than me. You're going in my mouth
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Pretty cool. Makes the fishing a lot easier and more fun. Around here, I've actually seen eels being eaten by the long-term bass
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And the cormorant is like a weird slimy kind of stork-like bird that dives underwater into the weeds and the grass and the structure
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And I saw one come up with like a two-foot-long eel. It was huge
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And then he just slurped that thing down like it was oodles and noodles. But that was pretty cool
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But I've learned that the bass will actually actually eat those too and they will obviously make you catch bigger bass
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You'll have to fish them off of structure That's deeper with the deep drops or near the bridge abutments to find this kind of bass
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But if you're able to make it happen You can get some nice fish
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You can get some nice fish or you might actually just run into a striped bass and have that kind of fun too around here
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But that depends on where you are if you're down south and those big like Lake Galvinston lakes
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You're going to get yourself a big one. Eels might not even be native to that area
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and they'll still eat it anyway, thinking it's a gigantic worm. Try it out
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Also, there's crickets. Crickets are a line. You know, they're small for panfish, but bass eat those too
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I'm not going to go too much into those. You can get them a line. You can get them at your local bait shop. You can get them dead
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You can get them alive. Alive is better. How do you hook them
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I don't really know. Hook them however you can. You'll find them falling apart
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Sorry, that's a sterile drive here. And the last one, the last one is a frog
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Now, why do I say use a frog for a bass fishing bait
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Well, I have a small story. I was about, I don't know
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nine years old. I was living in Virginia. We had a little lake near us. and one day i was walking down the road and i saw a frog on the road but it wasn't alive it was dead
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it had been smashed it looked like it just got hit or something and it just croaked i was like
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i'm going fishing what if i just put this puppy on a hook and threw it out there it was a really
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small frog it was a younger one probably about i don't know three to four inches long
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but man i threw that thing over a lolly pad and those bass lit it up boom i called it like a
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i think it was a four or five pounder but he actually actually he he managed to actually
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swallow half the frog i couldn't get it out so i just let him have it and that was that
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it was fantastic i'm like whoa maybe people should breed frogs and sell those for live
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bait as well or at least try it out I don't know how to make that happen but
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that would be pretty cool but it's not really a normal thing that you can do so
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that's all I have for today I don't really have anything else I want to talk
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about for live bait fishing so this is the white Norris fishing at work if you
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channel and subscribe right down below. Write comments that you want to say about this video
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or other videos I've made or expectations and maybe just say that Dwight you should find a
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quieter place to do your videos. That'll be in my house but sometimes you just like being out
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here. Hey I'm out here. I was at the river. I'm making a video. Now I'm leaving the river
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now it's raining now it's not raining now the sun's out now it's raining again what's going on
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i don't know what is nasty it's not nasty i thought it was the end that's what other channel said
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and oh yes this is the end of this video have a great time and get fishing
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