Recent Santee Cooper Bassmaster Elite Series tournament champion Drew Cook joins The Bass University to share his knowledge on sight fishing for bass. Drew has a lot of experience fishing for bass on beds and when Spring rolls around, he has a system for marking fish for tournaments and a couple of baits he relies on to catch them. Watch this bass fishing class seminar video to learn how Drew cook uses his GPS waypoints to ensure he gets as many bed fish as he can throughout a multi-day bass fishing tournament, how he identifies bass that are ready to eat a bait, how he prioritizes catching males vs females, what lures and rigs he fishes, what colors baits and ultimately, how he gets them to bite.

0:21 Bed fishing in bass tournaments, love it or hate it
2:09 Single vs multi-day tournaments
2:42 Practice & system for marking bedding fish
9:44 How Drew Cook practices for a bed fish tournament
13:21 Reading the fish's attitude on the bed
19:54 Females vs males & importance of fish color
22:04 Finding the bass bed sweet spot
24:13 Spawning pairs : catch the male or female first?
28:00 Angles : how to approach a bass bed
31:00 Bed fishing baits & tackle setups
39:30 Getting bass on beds to bite
41:20 Colors choices when bed fishing for bass
42:44 How Drew Cook catches 90% of his bed fish
46:39 Favorite lenses on sunglasses for sight fishing
48:19 How do you fish dropshot and wacky rig?
49:09 How to decide if you can sight fish multiple days
52:23 How long to try to get a bed fish to bite and how long before you come back?
54:43 Sight fishing outside bass tournaments
55:35 Jig vs Texas rig
56:45 Sight fishing a tournament as a co-angler
59:48 Carolina rigs for bedding fish

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