When the cold wind blows off the water in the winter and you’re wondering what I can do to get a bite, here are a few tips

Captain Mike Gerry

 to think about! One thing I have always believed is that bass eat in the cold winter water when it’s easy, their metabolism just won’t speed up enough to chase or compete for food. So making a meal easy involves just a few thoughts and small size baits is definitely one that I like to try. I believe downsizing can make the difference when it’s tough out there on a cold winter day.

Let’s start with the most obvious, if you have been fishing a big monster worm and no results, downsize to a small finesse worm the change in size will be an easy meal for a lethargic bass. I personally like to Texas rig a fluke in the winter, its small, it gives some different movement and not everyone weights a fluke and fishes it on the bottom.

Have you ever been fishing next to a crappie guy and watch him pull in a big winter bass and wonder what is going on! Well this is a testimony for downsizing; the crappie fisherman is working a small jig and catches a big bass and the reason is simple he has downsized and made the bait an easy meal. Bass will eat a small jig designed for crappie in the cold of winter you just have to be the one smart enough to have downsized.

One of my favorite small baits in the winter is a ¼ oz. short arm spinner bait, bass hang around the patches of grass in the cold of winter and a small short arm spinner bait worked slowly and dropped into the holes is an easy enticing meal. In fact over the years the helicopter drop of small spinner baits has caught more fish over 8 lbs. in the cold if winter than any bait I fish. Think small downsize and work your baits so they are an easy meal and you’ll love the results.

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Captain Mike Gerry