Are the Good Times Over?
As we have all seen the days of fishing our high -pressured lakes has changed drastically over the past few years; going to a top-rated reservoir has frustrated many of the best of fisherman. Change has come over time but the days of finding aggressive bass are depleting and if you are going to be successful you must change with it or the frustration of bass fishing will define you.
The reason is simple the enormous pressure on today’s lakes especially the top -rated ones is extremely obvious to anyone that fishes them. My inner thoughts some days when I pull up to a spot on a Monday and it is covered up with fisherman is where do all these fishermen come from? Well the answer of course is they are just folks planning there fishing but as the population of our country grows and as more folks have disposable income the numbers of folks fishing just keeps growing. The change however has taken out the aggressive bite from most lakes.
The key is understanding that your technique must change with the times, that aggressive bite in most cases is just not there and adapting your style is most important to getting a bite. Subtle in most cases is the new aggressive bite; you must be patient and feel the subtle bite and fish techniques that employ it. One of the things I continually find is that regardless of bait letting that bait lay dead still for some reasonable period of time, maybe as much as 15 to 20 seconds is the only way to fish many of these high pressured lakes. This technique is not just limited to the many dead stick presentations like sinko’s we are all use to.
I like a jig this time of year and a dead stick jig is very affective. Motionless fishing for periods of many seconds at a time is our new aggressive power fishing technique; how many times have you noticed that you pause your bait to talk to your partner and all of sudden there is a fish on your line and don’t limit this to bottom baits as many top water baits like walking baits will accomplish the same thing. The golden days might be gone, but motionless fishing is taking over!
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Captain Mike Gerry