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the fish was positioned when you got the bite and figure out different presentations to try to increase souTHern caLifornia’s your success. This is listening to the fish!
another influence to watch are the weather patterns during the season you happen to find yourself fishing either in a tournament or just fun fishing on a weekend. My contention is that bass are where you find them on your fishing day based on weather patterns over the last three or four weeks. a low-pressure or high-pressure system that moves through your area can change the bass’ mood and effect where they stage and feed. From day- to-day, the bass move and the accumulation of this movement will position them where you find them on that particular day. analyze each bite, look at all the above-mentioned influences and you will start to see common threads of information. again, putting together that “pattern” to keep you catching bass. The more you do this, the easier it will become and as you do this your success will lead you to do develop your own fishing style. Some guys are reaction fishermen, some guys jig fishermen, some flip and pitch the heavy/shallow cover and some are finesse fishermen. This is not something you can force. it will happen naturally over time. Just fish with all different baits and styles in every season on as many different bodies of water you can get to and you will have success. once you start fishing tournaments, you may find that you will practice differently than you fish during a tournament. This means trying areas that you won’t go to and baits that you wouldn’t use or covering water in a manner that you may not in a tournament. For example, you may start on a point in practice and work your way into the adjoining cove, fishing all the way to the back and around to the next point checking all the available cover to see if you can capture some of those important bits of information via bites that start the formation of a pattern. in the tournament you may skip all that unproductive water and only fish the areas that were productive in practice. The goal during the tournament is to have every cast in the “zone” - the zone being that productive area where most of the bites are coming from. i often find myself changing my starting pattern with adjustments that i discover during the fishing day. The bass are constantly changing not only from week-to-week and day-to-day and at times even from hour-to-hour. That pattern you found last Saturday will probably have changed at least a little
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