A NEW Bass Behavior Was Discovered That Will Change Your Fishing in 2024 | Core Tackle Finesse TUSH

Equipment Used In This Video:
TUSH/Spark Shad Combo
- Core Tackle Finesse TUSH 3/16oz: bit.ly/3RBlILh
- Megabass Spark Shad 3in: bit.ly/3xnxh1W
- Denali KOVERT Lite Series Spinning Rod 7'2" Med Hvy: bit.ly/3LqjLw8
- Sunline Siglon PEx4 Braided Line 10lb: bit.ly/38vk2zl
- Sunline FC Fluorocarbon Leader Clear 8lb: bit.ly/3Mz7SnO
- Abu Garcia Max Pro Spinning Reel Size 30: bit.ly/3xXkRLV
Fish Finders Used in Video
Forward Facing Sonar
- Garmin GPSMAP 1022XSV
- Garmin Livescope LVS34 Transducer
Down/Side Imaging:
- Garmin GPSMAP 8610XSV
- Garmin GT56UHD Transducer
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[@stringoverbet2790]

Cain here. *New* (?) pattern. Hehe. U r right tho. Was out fluking today here in CT... Advantages of fishing high: 1) they commit before they get a good look at the bait, 2) it hauls them up instead of off the structure or towards the boat, 3) they like looking up, 4) fish swimming around looking/darting up at surface are more active... they came from fifteen feet today, 5) biggest: bass like to pin food against something (a weed wall, the bottom, or the surface) and are way more likely to commit to something they can corral/pin. They dont like spending energy on a maybe. Underwater camera footage shows how a bass will seem to show zero interest in a bait fish until it makes a wrong move and its trajectory intersects a barrier of some sort. Then suddenly the bass makes its move... They must have geometry and tracking lines hard wired. This is also why I like dragging a jig uphill instead of downhill. Seems like bass like that the bait is headed toward a dead end. Think of bass like muggers who hide in shadows, looking for an easy victim... I've said too much. ;)

[@jimkingsland1645]

Jonny I can’t remember ever seeing repetitive action like this! Wow! What a lesson! And as usual, your electronics visuals are so clear and comprehensive. Amazed! Thanks so much!

[@guyb5333]

Never got notification about this one but it's a great one. I really like the mix of using your electronics, explanation of how the fish set up quick catches and of course a little salesmanship show me how good that bait and hooked work

[@rodneygreen9968]

I like watching your off shore fishing videos. I learn so much from you. Thanks.

[@FishtheMoment]

Glad you like them!

[@bradr.7249]

Hey Jonny! I have been watching your channel for years. I love your content. I also love your boat. I have the exact same boat I believe. Triton TR186DC. I have upgraded it over the years and it has served me well. I love fishing the Spark Shad. It has served me well over the years. Thanks for the great lessons.

[@FishtheMoment]

That's awesome! Glad you enjoyed the video

[@edwardwicht5271]

This is what I’ve been doing on the East coast. It’s awesome. They won’t hit bait presented down to them. They are killing the real thing (shad) near the surface. Anything that sinks down they ignore. Watching them jet up to hit the bait is awesome.

[@leeyarbrough9636]

Another great video , on pickwick I noticed bass doing the same behavior about 4 years ago , actually spots was doing it a large head would roam with them.

[@Boethius411]

Oh man I have never had so much fun my northern accent came out… Im uber jealous. 😂

[@jboz1435]

Really nice video, I fish the deep end of Dale Hollow, you nailed it.

[@Nate_Higgins]

Just got back home from Beaver. Didn't catch any like that, i did get some plopper bites so thats fun. I do love the Spark Shad/Tush combo. Good stuff.

[@FishtheMoment]

Sounds like a fun bite!

[@ryanvarner6520]

Great video for finding deep fish!! Inspiring!!!

[@FishtheMoment]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@lljustice3877]

I’d gotten in the habit of swimming the lure in over their heads about 2 ft. no matter the depth.

[@whirleybirds4439]

Jonny - Another excellent video! Your annotations on the screen videos are a valuable addition. Question: can you reframe the screen video slightly so the range scale on Livescope isn't cut off at the top? Just a few pixels more would do it.

[@FishtheMoment]

Glad you enjoyed! I'll do that on my next video.

[@ChrisB-uj6zi]

Funny you mentioned they want bite a Keitech swim bait. I was just telling guys at work the other day I couldn’t get them to bite anything but a mega bass spark shad. I kept trying everything else but 17 out of my 20 came from a spark shad and a tush.

[@joshuagibson2520]

14:17 you are dead right. With even just 2D and a marker buoy this can be done. It does require a bit more time and effort, but is 107% do able.

[@tacohell]

Your videos are insanely good (show and tell)! I don't even bass fish, but rather crappie and striped bass, but I watch your videos!

[@TeamTriton86]

Must have been Chris Zaldain driving that striper guide boat!😮

[@DividedWeAllFall]

Making it look easy.

[@CATCHAHAWG]

I caught a 6 1/2 lb smallmouth along with several other 4 lbers on Beaver in the early 2000’s . Does it not have that class of fish anymore?

[@matthewallen4141]

What graphs do you use

[@FishtheMoment]

I have them listed in the video description

[@tombishop470]

Another good video, great information...You mentioned towards the end is this only applicable to spot's and smallmouth? Will this work for largemouth also or is it just more effective on those fish.

[@FishtheMoment]

This concept of keeping the bait within 5ft of the surface works for Largemouth as well. However, if the water is more stained (1-3ft of visibility), they won't come up out of deep water as far for the bait. Maybe 5-10ft in stained water vs 15-20ft in clear water. In more stained water, I would look for bass suspended in 10ft or less for this technique and throw a larger bait that gives off more flash and vibration.

[@tombishop470]

@@FishtheMoment Thanks Jonny, old dog trying to learn new tricks. Just rigged a boat with garmin graphs, I have been looking at all your sonar videos and in one that was more Bird focused you mentioned doing a garmin settings one but I was not able to find it. I see you using garmin for most of your scanning, do you have a video for how you have yours setup? Great content as always...I keep telling folks about your channel really one of the better ones out here, thanks.

[@thequixoticangler3364]

Odd. We just experienced this on my last trip. My buddy and captain, a guide, was drop shotting and spooning. I went off the banks and shallow. Big glides, Swims, and top water. I got action all day, against the known pattern. Brent barely saw anything. Hmmm. Thanks.

[@travisdavies8894]

Great video! What graph or map card are you using? The detail is unreal.

[@FishtheMoment]

This is the Navionics US map card.

[@ADKyakman]

You’re a very intelligent angler. I mean thats coming from a young(er-35yr) experienced angler too who has a brain packed full of knowledge. But you’ve clearly put in a ton of time to this lake to dissect their behavior.. will it be like that everywhere? For both LMB, SMB? You’re kinda proving yes- maybe even the smallmouth might be more agressive especially if schooled w largemouth. Very interesting information. Thanks for the work you put in dude. I wish somehow we could collab and I could show you some be the quality black bass I’ve been catching in the north east (upstate yankee) near the Great Sacandaga. My light book is over 520 fish in the 2024 year- 100 might be walleyes, but majority are 2 to 4 pound black bass . And I’m smashing them- getting a limit every outing in bodies of water people struggle hard on, it’s small and grass takes over majority of it and you need to know how to fish grass..but there’s been some sneaky rigs I’ve been using that I don’t see anyone else doing.. I’d love to share with you and your thoughts of why it works so well and maybe tips of how to make it even better…good job out there man thanks for all this work you put in for us

[@ADKyakman]

Also isn’t the MaxZ the best for the money. So smooth. Never gives you problems, never gunks up, i absolutely love my MaxZS and they’re a few years old but I picked up 4 in clearance at my WM for $10!!!!! I got 2 20’s and 2 30’s.. $40 for 4 reels when they costs $50 after tax retail

[@kennyb7883]

How are you on spotlock AND looking around with the troll motor?

[@FishtheMoment]

I turn off spotlock when I look around and then turn on spotlock when I hook a fish or don't need Livescope.

[@MrJimmaguire]

Love these ffs videos. Do you think it’s important to see you lure on the ffs? I have a hard time picking mine up on my low range hds12

[@FishtheMoment]

It can be helpful in some situations. But with the fish I was targeting in this video, its not necessary

[@NeilGraham.I.M.F]

This is what I need to learn to do I have a question though how can you tell that a school of fish is a school of bass? I know there are several things experience being the best. Size all that stuff but I see Fish on the electronics and if you put the scope down their fish everywhere but I can never get any to bite. Or when you bring your bait through them you realize your baits signature is the same size as the fish. So again I asked how do you know that that school of fish is a school of bass

[@shaneball1002]

He has videos on this question! Go search it :D

[@FishtheMoment]

Here's a video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ap6bYWunjsdmh5I

[@NeilGraham.I.M.F]

@@FishtheMoment thank you very much. I've probably seen the video before if it was published in the last couple of years. and if so I will watch it again as that's part of my issue. Spend a lot of time throwing baits at fish that either don't turn out to be bass or just won't bite anything I throw at them

[@williamknight5142]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@Boethius411]

Serious question… does this ever translate in more stained water?

[@colt110987]

New pattern a long time ago

[@gshepherd37]

Beaver Lake is very hit and miss. So much bait everywhere. It is my back door lake.

[@FishtheMoment]

Yeah it's a tricky one. Starting to get it figured out more recently.

[@lwilliams55]

Do you think fish you immediately release go back and tell the others to lay low… so to speak?

[@FishtheMoment]

Yeah I think so. On the second spot, there were so many fish there that I was able to catch 7-8 fish before they got wise and stopped biting.

[@AllSnipe]

I wish I could remember the name of the channel/guy. But he hangs a basket into the water and keeps all his fish in there until he's done fishing that spot so they don't talk to the other fish lol

[@lwilliams55]

@@AllSnipe I think I recall that they release some kind of pheromones that serves as an alarm to other fish…

[@paulrowe4502]

Give us old Johnny, who actually fished, not Livescope harvestor.

[@FishtheMoment]

I found these fish with mapping and 2D sonar. You can easily catch these fish without Livescope. Regardless, I am going to use Livescope in videos going forward, along with traditional methods.

[@BayJoua]

That striper guide got way too close.

[@FishtheMoment]

Haha yeah he drove within 30ft of my boat 3 times and almost drove right over where I was casting until I asked him to stop...

[@dustinfox8771]

Should change name of channel to finesse tush!

[@FishtheMoment]

Haha sorry I got a little excited...

[@petecook1611]

I just can't watch this..to much catching not much to learn or stay interested. Bro I'm sorry I've watched u for yrs an learned a lot but this ffs stuff gets boring

[@FishtheMoment]

I am genuinely curious, how would removing Livescope from the videos make them more informative or easier for you to replicate on your lake without Livescope? I graphed both areas with traditional sonar first in the video and pointed out the fish. I also showed my mapping. In my opinion, my videos show anglers how to find fish without livescope, only traditional sonar, and I only add livescope in to give a additional information when I am fishing the area rather than just showing my back and setting the hook. You can easily line up on the fish in this video with waypoints and mapping or a marker buoy.

[@petecook1611]

Just watching the livescope catches is boring to watch the rest I enjoy. I can find fish w my si/di the one I have trouble w is 2d I'm just not comfortable w that view yet but there again my 2d doesn't look as good as your on my birds, maybe setting changes. Sometimes when graphing so I have went over fish that I didn't know were fish no 2 images are the same so I enjoy seeing diff scenarios. So I guess what this boils down to is I don't have ffs nor can I justify spending $3800 to get one at this time so I rely on traditional sonar an mega 360..I'm not gonna stop watching your vids but the catching using ffs I just can't watch. I still think finding fish is the hardest not catching them. If u find them or get around them most of us I would think by now can catch them FINDING is where the value is but that's my opinion on it. Thanks bro

[@FishtheMoment]

Thanks for the response! I asked because I am still on the fence about adding the Livescope views because I don't really need it 90% of the time to catch the fish I'm targeting. I'm trying to find a middle ground between my old fishing style and the new techniques with Livescope, but it's been hard to find a good balance. Some days I just want to take Livescope off the boat and be done with it haha

[@petecook1611]

I enjoy everything but livescope. I still say there's plenty to learn on finding the fish first.

[@theoriginaltech019]

Every video since they came out. Come on man other lures still work! SMH!

[@FishtheMoment]

I released a video on Monday using a Deep Diving Crankbait and many other videos this year using other baits. Please check your facts before commenting.