Find and Catch Bass Year-Round with Top Bass Anglers
Day 2: Top Bass Anglers David Fritts and Rick Clunn Name Important Tactics for Catching Bass
Editor’s Note: Professional bass fishermen must catch bass year-round. Here’s what they say about their best bass-catching tips.
David Fritts: Bottom-Up Tactics
 When I have trouble locating bass, I try to find out-of-the-way places most anglers don’t fish, including contour breaks instead of creek channels or extremely-shallow water. Most anglers will cast and retrieve lures.  I’ve found that if I cast a bait out, let it fall vertically, jerk the bait up off the bottom and allow it to fall again, I’ll catch more bass than if I just cast the lure out
Rick Clunn: Reading the Water
 Fishermen everywhere have found locating bass tough, because they must analyze what’s going on right in front of them to succeed. Wind, weather and water conditions constantly change, and each of these conditions will make bass react differently. Sun will cause bass to look for shade; wind and cloud cover encourage bass to move shallow; falling water (when the lake is being drawn-down) will force bass to move tight to cover or to the outside of cover; and rising water causes bass to move toward the shoreline to look for food.  You must become aware of the wind, weather and water conditions on the lake the day you fish and watch how these conditions change throughout the day to help you find more bass. To catch more bass, you must act like a carpenter with his or her box of tools. Just like a carpenter knows what tools to use for each job he or she performs, you need to understand how to use all the baits in your tackle box. Each lure offers you a different option for catching bass. If you know how, when and where to fish those lures, you consistently can catch more bass every day you fish.
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