What Natural Elements to Look for While "Rat" Fishing
With the ratfish days upon us, it's time to give you some tips on the elements that help produce the "rat" bite. With October and late September being our driest months during the year the first of the natural elements that helps the bite is the sun. You see the sun does a couple of things to help you. It first of all starts to burn the top of the grass mats; this gives you that icky black grass which seems to really turn on the rat bite. Secondly the sun seems to be one of the keys to a good day of rat fishing. The over cast sky doesn't really help this "rat" bite. It takes the bright sun to turn the fish on.
The next natural element is actually the bream fish, they start sucking the insects off the top of the grass mats, and it never fails. When you pull up to a matted grass area and hear those bream sucking in the insects the bass are in that same area feeding on the bream. It's survival of the fittest the insects are the bream food and the bream are the bass food. A tough food chain don't you think?
Lastly the dieing grass, the darker, nastier, and ickiest of the grass makes for the best "rat" bite. There is just no doubt if you pull up to a matted grass area and its full of bugs, and looks like brown and black foam; you are fishing where the fish are. When you throw that "rat" out there and it makes a trail back to you, you are in "rat fishing" heaven. The big guy is blessing you with a great time to be had on Lake Guntersville. The only thing left is to make sure you're rigged correctly with braided line a stiff rod and the day will be complete.
Let's try this "rat fishing" together, their tearing up the "rat" now and it's only going to get better.
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