How to Catch Schooling Bass | Forward-Facing Sonar

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At some point in your life, you’ve probably witnessed schooling largemouth, smallmouth, or spotted bass out in the abyss of a lake. Every year, populations of bass make their way out to deep, open water in search of one thing and one thing only: Bait. In this video, Bassmaster Elite Series Pro Chris Zaldain shows how to locate and stay on these schooling fish using forward-facing sonar.
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Schools of basin-roaming bass can be very easy to track down when they are blowing bait out of the water, but how about when they are subsurface? Zaldain explains that there is really only one way to keep up with these fish. Forward-facing sonar, like Humminbird’s MEGA Live, allow you to constantly stay on fish that are simply chasing down bait. As shown in the video, these bass have no problem swimming hundreds of yards just to track down a tiny ball of shad. Although staying on top of them is key, there are several other benefits to watching them on forward-facing sonar.
Zaldain admits that he has learned a substantial amount of knowledge about schooling bass just from watching their behavior on MEGA Live. “Until the bait comes, it’s almost pointless to make a cast,” states Zaldain. But once the bait shows up, it’s game on. Bass will ambush bait balls towards the surface until there is nowhere else to hide. All you have to do is get your lure in on the feeding frenzy, and it’s usually a done deal. The biggest thing that Zaldain harps, though, is that you must allow yourself the opportunity to be within casting distance of the schools of feeding bass. The only way to do that; follow them around, examine their behavior, and be ready to cast when all hell breaks loose.
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@connorscuriosity3520 Год назад

Thank you for the open discussion of how to catch these fish. It helps those like me who are just learning the sport. Have a great Monday!

@Wired2Fish Год назад

Glad it helped!

@douglasspickler4925 Год назад

I agree it's a barrel of fun that you don't want to end. Nice work, great video. 👍

@Wired2Fish Год назад

Thanks Douglass!

@umi415 Год назад

Zaldain hit the nail square in the head. I have LS and I have learned so much just from watching the bass behavior. It's an amazing tool.

@Wired2Fish Год назад

Pretty crazy technology!

@romaloboda2280 Год назад

Can you share with us, what exactly have you learned? Thanks.

@umi415 Год назад

@Roma Loboda how they relate to structure, movement, feeding, how they react to sound, to lures, ect. Same with the bait fish. A lot of people bash FFS but the reality is because you can see them doesn't mean you can catch them. A mediocre fisherman with FFS will still be mediocre and struggle to catch fish. It completely changed the way I thought about fish positioning and the role structure has in that matter.

@romaloboda2280 Год назад

@@umi415 I see, thanks for your thoughts. By the way, do you feel the same way when you see fish on the screen when it's biting or when you don't know there is fish, and it's unknown if you will get a bite? Thanks.

@umi415 Год назад

@Roma Loboda the instances where that happens are rare. I'd say 90 percent of the time I don't see them.

@bryangreen5913 Год назад

Lol, “you saw the splash” …it’s fun when they reveal their location without the use of electronics!

@LipRippinJunkie Год назад

Chris is the mannn 💪🏼🎣

@Wired2Fish Год назад

He ain't too shabby on the catching or teaching aspect of fishing! Always great having him on our channel.

@cjnugent4102 Год назад

Looked like a ton of fun! 👍🏻🇺🇸🎣

@robertcook8187 Год назад

Excellent information on your video thanks I am still trying to learn my new Mega Live thanks again and good fishing

@Wired2Fish Год назад

Glad to help and appreciate the comment.

@shadygraves Год назад

I've been bass fishing for over 40 years. The very best lure I've found for when the bass are schooling- I mean feeding heavily, in schools- is an Old School ¼oz Hammered Chrome Mann's Li'l George. On a spinning rod with 12lb Gliss, you will be able to cast farther than most all other lures and it's working as long as it's in the water. FFS proves what we've suspected all along; the bigger bass usually let the smaller ones do the heavy chasing and slashing through the shad, while they like to just hang back and catch what is injured or killed and just falls right to them. That makes Li'l George the awesome schooling bait that it is. Also, when you're catching schoolers and you have followers or multiple bass chasing your hooked bass to the boat, if you're fishing a lure with 2 or more treble hooks, work your hooked fish in a figure '8' at the boat. Many times the followers will attack a shad imitating lure that is hanging out of your hooked bass' mouth. They're chasing the same shad, competing hard for them, and just can't resist one that they think just eluded one of their competitors. I've boated doubles like this FIVE TIMES in a day by using this technique that I learned from Ricky Clunn years ago. My lure that day was a ¼oz Chrome/Blue Rat-L-Trap.

@Wired2Fish Год назад

Spoon bite is so fun! Thanks for sharing.

@chrischrist7982 Год назад

Do something for bank fishing instead of boat fishing all the time please!!!!

@xandertaylor6105 Год назад

That what they don’t get. They do all these tip videos and the tip is “well look down at your electronics and forward facing sonar” 80% of us can’t/won’t buy that stuff. They need to start making videos for all fisherman

@zenith3515 Год назад

They don't. It's all cashed out electronics with 3 screens and boats you dream of. I rarely watch these guys much due to that but it's quality content, just a different crowd.

@Mg0936 Год назад

Bank fishing is simple just cast at cover or maybe a grass line and fish it that’s about all you can do what more do you want.

@bassnwbuddy2617 Год назад

I need those settings... wow

@Wired2Fish Год назад

Might be worth checking out Zaldain's channel for this. He's always dropping good content over there --> ru-vid.com

@brandondoaneoutdoors Год назад

If you don’t have forward facing sonar you can also look for seagulls or other birds diving on bait and just follow / chase them around the lake and hope you get over there fast enough to get on the fish 😂

@Wired2Fish Год назад

For sure, birds are still the best fish finders in many cases.

@2quack Год назад

They aren't garbage. Please release them gently.

@Mg0936 Год назад

They also aren’t little frail feathers they can survive a little splash. They jump just as high chasing baitfish out of they water and they are ok. It will be fine. We don’t have to call PETA.