Hi fam, need some help please. New to live scope this year and I've had some luck so far but struggling to ID the fish that I want to target. I keep finding these massive bait balls but not the predators. I'm in Michigan and the fish are still behaving like it's winter. Water reached 45 degrees today for the first time this year. Any tips?

Anyone else following the MLF at Lewis Smith Lake? Let’s go BLAT!

TC Lay hope this helps. I used to go off the tail lateral line. But sometimes if the fish gets stressed the lateral line stripe will be solid lake a large mouth's.

Any suggestions on map cards for a Lowrance HDs pro. Not a huge fan of the c map on board.

We have heard BLat say a few times that he believes the cold water fish mouth seems harder than when the water is warm. While I’ve been touring the frigid northeast from my home warm waters in South and Central Florida, I have to say I completely agree. Not kissing butt. I’ve noticed it during hookset, especially on a jig and even release. It is an adjustment. BTW: the layers required to keep myself warm is insane!!!

Straight Up Fishing Angler Development Program sponsor Jersey has arrived. Looking forward to participating in my first BFL tournament on May 10th.

About today... 😪

Chunky female off the bed!

Thank you for the sponsorship!! Y’all better be glad I ain’t in the championship with all these SMH worms I got !!!!

Hey all wanted to share yesterday's tournament on Falls Lake. I found a magical bank line not too far from launch in a cove that produced 13+ fish for me to secure a 2nd place finish.

NC got hit with a cold front late Thursday into Friday with rain lingering mid Saturday into tournament, full moon, winds in the 8-9 with 15-20mph gust. Water temp 63 (was 68 on Tuesday)

In my area for practice I found a finesse shakey head bite dirt shallow , and spinner bait bite mid depth ~9ft. With the cold front I adjusted everything I found atleast 3 ft from where I practiced. I noticed fish I saw deep on my sonar tuesday in main channel where not there not even bait on side scan so I made a detour to check the nearest pocket. 1st and 3rd cast I caught some bass so I decided to slowly and methodically throw that shakey head, each cast not overlapping the last cast's line. Once I did one pass I go back up the bank with a wacky rig and cleaned up any areas I felt I missed on the initial pass. I found many buck males and some 12-15.75 inch buck males 1 ready to spawn female 18 incher and an active spawning bass couldn't tell if male or female but had roughed up bloody tail.

Hope this helps anyone fishing a cold front tourny. Surprising enough up the lake at holly point campground area the angler who won had a very similar occurrence where he had all his winning fish on one bank in one cove that he combed through all morning.