Catching Schooling Bass With Tim Little

Tim Smashes the schooling fish on Clearlake and gives some great tips on the top baits to throw around shallow bait balls. Watch these bass jumping out of the water to catch the shad!

Schooling bass become incredibly aggressive and at times, it seems will eat just about anything. But even when they're blowing up on topwater and chasing shad onto the shore, there are a few key baits that will consistently catch the better fish. Below is a breakdown of the baits Tim recommends throwing around schooling bass in shallow water. 

Gear Shown in the Video...
Alabama Rig (Bladed): http://bit.ly/2bgDGNu
Alabama Rig (Unbladed): http://bit.ly/2j6F1Nz
Matt Allen Swimbait Heads: http://bit.ly/29RrTYN
Keitech Baits for the Rig: http://bit.ly/2ab7s8v

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Staysee 90 Jerkbait: http://bit.ly/2dBzMmz
Pointer 78 DD Jerkbait: http://bit.ly/2e0sQj7

BladeRunner Underspin: http://bit.ly/29UVegz
Coolbaits Underspin: http://bit.ly/2boS7QA

Lake Fork Flutter Spoon: http://bit.ly/2mrsdUv
Replacement Hook for Spoon: http://bit.ly/2cWpeyw

5" Senko Electric Shad or Natural Shad: http://bit.ly/2axAmNS
1/0 Wacky Hook: http://bit.ly/2aKGmHM
Zoom Super Fluke: http://bit.ly/2aqys0H

River2Sea Rover: http://bit.ly/2acSVea
Super Spook: http://bit.ly/2diThgH
Rico Popper: http://bit.ly/2f7gink

When the bass begin targeting shad or other bait fish in shallow water, its prime time to catch a big bass! Get ready to experience one of the best patterns you've ever seen by implementing the techniques Tim discusses in this video. 

How To Catch Bigger Schooling Fish

Matt explains how schooling bass move and react. How the largest bass stay deep and play off the feeding mentality of the smaller fish to eat with minimal effort. He also explains how adapting your bait selection can help you to catch the largest fish in the school. 

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The next time you're on a topwater bite and the bass are really blowing up well, consider changing your offering and going deeper to get the bigger bites. Often times the truly giant bass will hang below bass that are feeding on the surface in our to take advantage of their efforts and eat the scraps with minimal effort. 

Baits Discussed In The Video...

Rover Topwater: http://bit.ly/2acSVea
Whopper Plopper: http://bit.ly/2a7ipHL
Jackall Dowzvido Jerkbait: http://bit.ly/2laGa7G
Blade Runner Underspin: http://bit.ly/29UVegz
Keitech Fat Swimbait: http://bit.ly/2ab7s8v
5" Senko: http://bit.ly/2axAmNS
Zoom Super Fluke: http://bit.ly/2aqys0H

Best Baits to Throw During the Fall Transition

The Summer to Fall transition can be a really difficult time for anglers to locate bass. Their Summer patterns are fading and the Fall patterns haven't yet come on strong. However, while the bulk of anglers are struggling there are a handful that are capitalizing and turning the Fall into one of the most productive times of year to catch big bass. 

In this video Matt breaks down the best baits for Fall bass fishing. This video started out as a "Top 5" video but instead Matt pulled out his actual Fall transition baits box and shows you every bait in it. 

Below are the baits and colors shown...

-S-Waver 168 Swimbait in "Light Trout" color

-Whopper Plopper 130 in "Bluegill" or "Loon"
-Bully Wa 2 Frog in "Dirty White", Yellow/Black, or "Little Allen" (Little John)

LV-500 Lipless Crankbait (Ghost Minnow, Chartreuse Shad, American Shad)

-Lucky Craft RTO 4.0 Squarebill (Chartreuse Shad)
-Biggie Smalls Squarebill in T1000 or TS Minnow
-Jackall Aska 70 Squarebill in "Super Shad"

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-Staysee 90 Jerkbait (Ghost Minnow)
-Pointer 100 DD Jerkbait (Chartreuse Shad)
-Pointer 100 Jerkbait (Gun Metal Shad)

-Bling Spinnerbait 3/8 oz (Abalone Shad)

-3/8 oz Pitchin' Jig (Go To or Norcal Craw)
-3/4 oz Flippin' Jig (Molting Craw)
Sweat Beaver Trailer (Green Pumpkin Red Flake)

Matt Allen Swimbait Head
Blade Runner Spintrix
4.8 or 4.3 Keitech Fat Swing Impact

With this selection of baits you're able to cover every bass fishing scenario that fall fishing can throw your way. Whether the fish are up shallow in docks and timber or out in the scattered grass and tullies, you'll have lures to reach and trigger the bass into biting. 

Use the glidebait, swimbaits, and reaction baits to locate schooling fish but once you've found them slow down with the squarebill crankbait, jig, and lipless crankbait to capitalize on the schooling bass and catch as many as possible. Don't be afraid to camp out on a school of bass and attempt to catch every fish in the group, this is one of the best ways to get a BIG bass to bite.