How to Play the Fish | Best Method

Play the Fish, When you’ve coaxed that bass into striking your draw, it’s time to get it into the boat. Here’s the means by which to do it.

Setting the Hook

Treble-hook baits often cause the bass to hook itself after striking – often, but not always. The jaws of a bass are tough. It takes a strong impact and a sharp hook point to penetrate.

On crankbaits, when the strike happens, snap back the pole tip rapidly and reel until the line is tight. The impact of the strike often sets the hooks, but by maintaining pressure on the fish you can usually cover them more profound. Play the Fish.

With topwater, it’s important to wait for a second prior to setting the hook. An overreaction often results in your pulling the bait from the mouth of the bass.

Single-hook baits (dances, plastic worms, spinnerbaits) require a strong, deliberate hookset on your part. Often the bass inhales the draw completely. You must drive the hook point home with a strong strike.

Play the Fish, DON’T Tighten down on the fish and then breadth back with the bar tip. This will just turn the head of a major bass.https://shopping-az.com/

DO Set the hook utilizing the slack-line technique. After inclination the strike, turn to face the fish with bar between 10 and 11 o’clock. Then drop the pole top rapidly and snap the slack out of the line with a fast overhead strike. This will pound home the hook point the same way a hammer pounds a nail into a board. Always set the hook with a strong upward jolt. Be that as it may, you don’t have to tear the boat seat out of the boat on the hookset. In case you’re fixed right, the bass will practically hook itself.

Setting the Drag (Play the Fish) 

Your reel’s drag allows line slippage. It’s a precaution against a major fish or obstacle breaking your line.

DON’T Set the drag by adjusting the drag setting, then pulling line from directly in front to the spool. This can cover line in the spool and gives an inaccurate reading of line pull exerted from the bait.

DO Adjust the drag and then draw the line from past the bar tip, or tie a heavy object to the furthest limit of your line and adjust accordingly. A decent general guideline is to set the drag to not surpass half that of the pound test of your line. A spring scale utilized in gauging fish can assist set with dragging tension all the more accurately.

Backreeling

Backreeling is a method of playing a fish on a turning reel that bypass the reel’s drag system. The drag is tightened down and the fisherman utilizes the reel handle to either take-in or pay-out as the fish demands. With practice, the technique gets easier, but amateurs will discover this method difficult to master. The advantage of backreeling is that line twist is often greatly decreased because you aren’t reeling while the bass is pulling line against the drag. On light line, you must try to re-think the bass while backreeling-anticipate its next move – never an easy tack. 

Landing a Fish (Play the Fish)

Bass have no teeth, as do many other game fish; therefore they can be easily landed without the utilization of a net, with practice. Landing nets may damage fish you wish to release.

Lip-Landing Method

At the point when the fish is ready to come in, utilize the bar to draw it near the boat. Do not reel up a lot of lines. Play the Fish, The bar’s spring action will act as a safeguard should the fish choose to make one final run at the boat.

Draw the pole back more than one shoulder and extend your arm. Maintain pressure on your line. Gradually pull the bass toward your grasp.

Carefully press your thumb against the tip of the jaws if the mouth is shut. This will cause it to open. Then solidly hold the lower jaw between thumb and pointer.

On a major bass, wait one second. Put down your bar and utilize your other hand to grasp the jaw also. Play the Fish.

Lift the bass aboard.

Net Method (Play the Fish) https://www.bassresource.com/fish/fighting.html

Many bass are lost at the landing net. Net your fish carefully but recollect that landing nets will damage the scales, blades and ooze coating of a bass.

Bring the bass alongside the boat.

Put the net into the water, making sure the netting isn’t tangled.

Draw the fish toward the net; the fish will usually swim into it.

Scoop the fish up, utilizing a solitary, smooth motion. Don’t try to net the bass downward and do not swipe at a bass that isn’t ready to get on. Play the Fish.

Preventing Problems

• Keep in mind, the harder you fight, the harder the fish fights. When you pull him from the spread, let up and let the bass tire out before bringing him to the boat.
• On the off chance that a bass swims under the boat, extend your arms as far as they will go with bar in hand, thereby giving you extra leverage. Maintain weight and you can usually draw the fish out into the open again. Avoid hitting the trolling motor start button while the bass is under the boat, you can cut your line.Play the Fish.
• Don’t fight or pull the fish in the opposite direction it’s heading. Turn him by managing his head.
• Don’t panic. Utilize the tools at hand: your bar, reel, line and brain. Horsing a major fish to the boat usually means losing it. Play the Fish.
• Don’t try to haul a bass out that’s covered in weeds or other heavy spread. You’ll usually tear out or straighten the hook. It’s smarter to push toward the bass with the boat.
• Long poles are an asset when playing a major fish. They give more stun absorbing force, move more line when setting the hook and give you more control over the bass.
• Indeed, even a professional fisherman loses some fish. Learn from your mistakes, but don’t let them ruin your fishing trip.
• Whatever you do when landing the bass, DO NOT grab the line, especially on a major fish. I have lost a 6 pound largemouth and a 4 pound smallmouth in the last year, because I didn’t have the patience to wait until the time was right to lip the bass. It is a hard habit to break, but it is worth the effort. Play the Fish.
• When fishing early toward the beginning of the day, try utilizing a Yellow Sally on the weed beds and work it fast. I have discovered this creates a lot of strikes and usually greater fish.