This is the fourth installment in our five part series called Top Bass Fishing Tips. If you missed the first three, then you don’t want to miss this week’s installment.

In this fourth article, I want to look at the fine art of the dead sticker for more serious. Catching bass is simply throwing away your bait or lure and leaving it there until you can’t take it anymore. It tests your patience, but that is exactly the purpose behind this bass fishing technique. It shouldn’t surprise you that a bass can wait for you. People by nature are impatient and even after casting a powerful larva or any other bait or lure and letting it sit there “dead stuck” in the water for a few minutes, most people will go crazy. But this is the point behind this bass fishing technique.

Let me share with you a quick story to illustrate this technique. I was fishing up north in the weeds looking for those campfire sized largemouth bass. I was flipping, casting spinner baits, walking the dog, etc. Basically all the tricks I had that my tackle box could offer and they were catching my impatience more than anything else. When all of a sudden I noticed there were bass in the area but they were following my baits and lures so slowly that I hadn’t noticed them before. ok what to do? I knew these bass were inactive, very inactive, most likely these bass already had full guts so their eyes were bigger than their stomachs, but they still felt the need to follow baits and lures that they just didn’t have the motivation to nail them.

So I tried the dead bass fishing technique. I let my power frogs sit in the weed piles so it turned my brain into nothing short of crazy. You’d be surprised how long a fully fed inactive bass will stare at your baits. Trust me when I say more than you can handle without touching the urge to roll it up. Then finally I started to catch the bass. Sure I didn’t cast dozens, but this bass fishing technique works.

Best to try this when you know the bass is there and none of the other tricks and tactics are working. When this is the case, you have nothing to lose except time to try to sit still. I bet you would be surprised with the results. My personal experience has shown that plastic baits and lures work best with this bass fishing technique, so have no fear when you find very inactive bass and go for this bass fishing technique. It’s better to catch some bass than nothing but frustration. Fishing for sluggish bass requires you to slow down your introductions, and if they are super sluggish perhaps because their stomachs are full, you will need to slow down even more and this is when catching more bass comes into play.

Stay tuned for the next article which will continue our series on the best bass fishing tips and I hope you continue our series to learn even more great bass fishing techniques.