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Bass fishing can be a simple, relaxing pastime or an intricate sport that demands constant decision-making. Every angler chooses their level of engagement. Whether you are casting from a shoreline, working a local dock, or heading out on a boat, most anglers grow through experimentation—refining their knowledge both before they arrive at the water’s edge and during their fishing expeditions.
With over 30 primary lure types—each featuring hundreds of variations in color, size, and weight—the options are staggering. Anglers must navigate dozens of rigging and presentation techniques, all while weighing variables such as fishing depth, lure visibility, fishing speed, water temperature, forage availability, wind and water currents, bottom composition, structure type, time of day, season, weather and targeted cover.
A Bass Fishing Education Center designed to simplify the complex.
Acute Angler™ structures, summarizes, and links high-value educational resources, for example videos made by experts. We support those who want to learn the art of bass fishing—regardless of where they stand—and provide a platform for those who want to teach it.
Understand what bass eat, how they eat, bass species, and the impact of weather, seasons, water temperature, water clarity, depth and several other considerations.
Understand cover types such as grass, rock, wood, and docks as well as bass movements off cover when they are actively feeding, suspending, migrating, responding to weather and spawning.
Lures by Purpose
Including lures by speed, depth, visibility, targeting cover, cast technique, retrieve technique, and other functions.
Lure colors based on bass vision in low and high lure visibility scenarios, while also considering situations where noise and vibrations are important.
Lures with Jig Heads
A breakdown of lures with jig heads into skirted body lures and soft bait lures.
Soft Plastics Breakdown
Understand the different types of soft plastics used for soft bait lures and soft plastic trailers.
Lures by Contact Breakdown
A breakdown by contact categories and physical categories.
Presentation Breakdown
1. Cast Technique, 2 Initial Action, 3. Retrieves, 4. Secondary Action, 5. Identify Fish On, 6. Hook Set, 7. Landing a Bass.
Fishing Rod Breakdown by Lure Type
Breakdown of spinning rods and baitcaster rods, including rod power and action common to each lure type.
A Bass Fishing Golf Analogy
1. Spot location = landing zone location, 2. lure selection = club selection, 3. presentation = swing.
