I wish I could take you all to the first proper, shallow reefy mark where I began to cut my teeth on lure fishing for bass; it would perfectly illustrate all that I am going to talk about here. Thanks to a very kind, and incredibly skillful, UK angler who was living in south east Ireland and invited me over for some fishing, I soon fell into a complete lure fishing addiction! I would love to show you where this lad and I first started fishing together because the whole location was full of such valuable lessons which only became fully apparent to me as I started slowly getting to grips with fishing lures for bass.
One of the things I quickly learnt was that on a typical bass mark – for most anglers I think I can assume will more than likely be shallow, reefy or at least broken ground – there were in fact a number of sections