would show the first day as a failure in the first part of the episode, do further research, and add the other day on the back end of the show.
I got five bites in the first episode in a little over three hours fishing a swim jig. So, when planning the second day in the summer, when fish throughout the south are on their offshore ledges and drops, I decided it was going to be an offshore deal. I searched
the Navionics chart on their web app and
Hookset at Palmetto Creek Bridge on Neely Henry
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found a spot where a major creek channel and feeder creek come together at the end of flat, with a point dropping off into the main creek, on the front and one side on the feeder creek.
I had three deep crankbaits tied on; a Strike King 6XD, a River2Sea Goon and a SPRO Little John Baby DD. I also had a Strike King Denny Brauer Structure Jig and a Magnum Shaky Head by Davis Baits and a big worm on there.
When I arrived, I scanned the area with the
Structure Scan on my Lowrance
HDS Gen2Touch 9, and found bait
and fish all over the corners of
the point. Baitfish were flitting on
the surface of the water and there
was activity on the screen. I was all
ready to wreck ‘em. A little over an
hour later, and I had ZERO bites.
That’s when I remembered
something that Larry Nixon had
once told me his father said to him as
a young angler. I had asked him why
he had always done so well in the
old Bassmaster Megabucks format
tournaments. He said that his; “daddy
had always told me to look at a lake
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