Fish a highly pressured lake or river?
The best way to outfish the competition is learning boat control. Maintain more distance between you and the targets and also use the trolling motor as little as possible. Slow down!!! Multiple cast to the same areas.
The live class this week gave some insight into how wind affects different fisheries
THIS IS A VERY SURFACE LEVEL STATEMENT …
While this sounds great in theory its practicality is NOT realistic. There’s plankton every where in every lake. EVERY WHERE‼️
The wind does effect plankton however it’s much different than “blowing it around”. The wind affects light penetration and it also mixes surfaces water affecting where nutrients are available to plankton.
The wind works more as “agitation” than shifting the location of plankton in most lakes. However this can be exaggerated on large bodies of water with current. The ocean, the Great Lakes and very large expansive bodies of water can see some movement of forage due to wind events.
For us as fishermen the important part to know is context . The vast majority of us should realize if there’s no bait there to begin with wind won’t change anything at all. Baitfish can swim against ALL WIND CURRENTS IN MOST LAKES. The wind makes the water column darker and sometimes that leads to more activity because of the light refraction.
All i can say is watch the video about lipless crank baits specifically the old school raddle trap worked well for me today!! Plucked a solid 5lber off a secondary point today
Will there be a retreat next spring? I have a few friends asking me.. maybe a tournament mid spring, and championship/retreat late spring?
