How to Fish the Blade Bait - Fall & Winter Fishing Tips (Pond Fishing)

what's up guys today we are doing some pond fishing i come down here like second cast i caught this bass check it out today i'm gonna give you some tips to catch more bass and specks or anything else that will hit a blade bait in a pond so we're doing a little bit of pond fishing i've got me a little blade bait here you guys see it's like a quarter ounce really really tiny blade and i don't have the snap swivel on it um basically the snaps just basically with the snap swivel you can change it from the hole in the front to the hole in the middle or the hole in the back and the hole in the front is going to make that bait dive shallower the hole in the middle is going to keep it kind of in the medium of the water column and in the back it's going to make that bait with its head face down and it's going to dive down deeper so i've got it in the thing's got small hooks on it got 17 pound line on here 17 pound fluoro and i'm going to tell you guys why i'm using the line i'm using the setup i'm using so let's let's catch some fish and i'll give you guys some tips on this bait that bass i just caught that was a good chunker especially for this pond and what i was doing there when i caught him i just threw it out and i let it hit the bottom and i pumped it up and then i let it fall and then i kind of reeled a little bit you can feel that blade vibrating was fluorocarbon then i stopped it to let it fall again and then whenever i went to reel again i felt weight and he was just on there so you really got to fill them out this time of year sometimes they want to yo-yo they want to stop and go you know they want it yo-yoed up off the bottom and really the reason that they like that is because with the water cooling off like it is right now a lot of those shad die and they flutter down and so that's what this little blade bait is imitating dying shad or dying bait fish whatever kind of bait fish is in your area especially as cold snaps we've been getting lately i'm in georgia right now and then last night it was probably it got down in the 30s last night and then today it got up in the 70s so it's really got fishing kind of wonky right oh there he is there he is there he is come on over here baby come on up here baby oh it's another bass oh it's a good one too come on up here this thing's got tiny hooks on it guys even though i got 17 pound mine it's got tiny hooks on it so i've got to really take it easy with these fish and there he is check him out check him out check him out bass number two i probably made a total of like eight cast guys we got two bass that is a pretty good ratio especially for this pond i fish in this pond all the time don't catch anything that's crazy all right let's go ahead and let her go go ahead throw it back in the water pushing it a little bit bigger all right boys let's see if we catch another one so depending on water temps and how active the bass are depends on how i work a blade bait i mean usually i don't even pull a blade bait out until it starts to get cold and those fish start dying and fluttering down but if the fish are more active like if i see them buzzing top of water and chasing bait fish i'll just reel that thing in just burn in where i can feel it vibrating but as you guys see right now it's getting dark and there is no motion on top of water at all so these fish aren't really active they're active to bite this blade bait but they are not feeding making a bunch of commotion like i normally would be at dark both of those bass hit it on the thaw so i'm gonna lift my rod up really really high and then just kind of let that thing flutter down and keep doing that now another advantage of having fluorocarbon on here i can fill it when i get grass on there so i'm letting this thing hit the bottom it's probably like a all over the bottom and uh if you get grass and you get that stuff on the hook it's not that blade's not going to vibrate like it should so with the fluorocarbon on here like this i can fill it when it's on there and i can pop it off which is another advantage of using a stiffer rod this is a medium heavy rod it's a seven foot medium heavy it's probably got a moderate tip it's not really really stiff but let's say if i had like 10 pound mono on here it would be a lot more difficult to jerk it and get that grass and stuff off of there pretty simple with a stiffer line and the reason that i'm using 17 pound fluorocarbon i mean it's a little overkill especially for you know this little bitty bait but i'm fishing in a pond i'm fishing off the bank so if i get this thing hung up with 17 pound fluorocarbon i'm gonna be able to bend them hooks out and get my bait back if i was fishing with like eight pound i'd probably lose it so that's one thing i always take into consideration whenever i'm i'm fishing in a river or anywhere off the bank where i can't get in the boat retrieve my bait especially right now you guys see the water is really dirty and stained so a heavier test pound line isn't going to make a big difference with the fish seeing it anyway maybe i need to slow it down a little bit i wonder if those were the only two fish in the pond could have been might not be any more fish in here so when i make really forecast like that it's not very deep it's probably like five foot deep out there so what i'm doing is i'm let me show you guys i am picking my rod up way up in the air and then i'm giving a slack line and letting it flutter back down that gives that bait more fall time and that's what i want since they're hitting it right now on the fall i haven't got the first bite on the pull or just steadily reeling it in guys i don't know if you remember silver buddy or not but i went to the bassmasters classic when i was a kid and the very first blade bait that i ever seen which i think is the first one they ever invented was called the silver buddy and it looked just like this and of course ever since then it's been knocked off but i had one that was about this long for saltwater trolling oh man that thing was sweet and of course my stupidity i didn't use a steel leader and i was trolling with it and the kingfish come and grab it so never actually got to catch fish with it i can really launch this thing out here look at that about threw all my line off my reel so i'm pulling it up and then i'm watching my slack line as it falls and you'll see when the line stops it hits the bottom so as soon as i see it hit the bottom i like to go ahead and pull back up because there may be a fish on there and if you don't feel him quick enough he might grab that thing and spit it back out a while ago what i was doing i was pulling up really high and then letting it flutter back down but another way you can do is just kind of pull it up to where it vibrates once or twice and let it fall back down it's like a shad that's dying that's trying to get up off the bottom but can't it also looks like a fish that might be feed on something on the bottom if you let this thing fall the slack line it's going to have more action while it's sinking as opposed to if you keep the line tight while it's sinking that line being tight isn't going to allow that bait to flutter down it's going to make it fall more towards you and it's not going to have as good of fluttering action and of course the lighter line you have the better fluttering action it's going to have so if i was fishing with like eight pound mono this thing would have a lot better fluttering action down but if i get it hung up i'm probably going to lose it with eight pound mono so this part of the pond right here where you guys just seen i threw at it's really shallow it's probably like three foot deep i can see a fish chasing it too but what i was going to tell you guys if you are throwing this thing in shallow water it's like two or three foot deep and you want to do a steady retrieve just keep your rod tip up if you know you're fishing in shallow water like that what i would do i'll move the split ring to the front and that's going to make that bait do more like that in the water and it's going to keep it up in the top of the water column where i can reel it slower but i'm not primarily fishing shallow water so that's why i've got it kind of hooked in the middle because i can kind of bury it man there's a bunch of fish following it i wish i wouldn't grab it already oh that was a big swirl there guys holy cow it's too shallow right there for him let me just rip it through there there's some big bass up there oh my god that was a big one i might have to pull a different bait out and catch him he's up there on that bank feeding and this blade bait i'm just dragging it by and it's it's probably like a foot deep right there so they've been hitting this blade bait while it's falling and there's really no room for this thing to just fall right there as soon as i stop it it's on the bottom pretty much dragging the bottom with it i mean oh my god that's a big bass guys that might be a 10 pounder what is he doing up there i wonder if he's he's acting almost like he's on the bed that's so weird see right there where i just threw it at i know there's a brush pile right there so i'm going to take a little bit of extra time working near that brush pile oh there he is there he is he grabbed it he grabbed it now i don't know if you guys were watching or not but he hit it on the fall i had a completely slack line and he just he grabbed it on the fall he's jumping out of the water come on up here now come on up here now come on up here now he's a smaller one but so much fun when they hit it when they hit this thing especially on the fall because you just got a slack line and then whenever you go to reel up you feel tension boom there he is all right all right it's getting dark and it's getting cold that's all i got for you guys today if you found any of these tips helpful please leave a comment let me know if you want to see more tip style videos more pond fishing just tell me what you guys want to see and i'll do my best to get those videos out now i'm going to stay down here and fish after dark and i got a headlamp so if i do hook a big one you guys will see it in the video after i say this so make sure you stay tuned subscribe and drop a comment hit the like button we'll see you next time