A fish may hit your lure with its mouth closed and to taste with the taste buds on the outside of its lip. This gives you a good reason to coat your bait with scent. Choose the correct scent for bass. Another possible reason for a missed hit is simply that, a missed hit. In both of these cases, it is best to stop your lure dead directly after the contact for a second. This gives your bait the look as if it were stunned. Usually the bass will come back and hit in this waiting period. If the bass still doesn't hit during the rest of your retrieve, cast one or maybe two more times. If there is no sign of the bass and it is during the night, change your lure to a bright, slow moving, loud and well-scented lure such as a rattling Rapala minnow (retrieve with constant and slow retrieve). If the missed hit is during the light hours of the day, change your lure to a very lightly weighted or unweighted soft plastic bait that is well-scented and realistic looking such as a Berkley Power grub, worm or salamander. If you have two rods, one should always be rigged up with a lure that you would use to follow up a missed hit.

If a fish hits your bait and misses, it possible that the fish was a large female slapping it with its tail to stun the possible food. They will come back later to eat it. Another possible reason is that the fish hit it with its mouth closed and to taste with the taste buds on the outside of its lip. This gives you a good reason to coat your bait with scent. Choose the correct scent for bass. The final possible reason for a missed hit is simply that, a missed hit. In all of these cases, it is best to stop your lure dead directly after the contact. This gives your bait the look as if it were stunned. Usually the bass will come back and hit in this waiting period. If the bass doesn't return after five seconds or so, give it a slight twitch. If the bass still doesn't return, cast one or maybe two more times. If there is no sign of the bass and it is during the night, change your lure to a bright, slow moving, loud and well-scented lure such as a rattling Rapala minnow (retrieve with constant and slow retrieve). If the missed hit is during the day, change your lure to a soft plastic bait that is well-scented and realistic looking such as a Berkley Power grub, worm or salamander. If you have two rods, one should always be rigged up with a lure that you would use to follow up a missed hit.

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