personally, if the lake is as small as you make it sound, I would go out,
but I wouldn't fish at all. I would check the quality of weeds, life on
different structure. You can really figure out a lot by observing without
ever really even seeing a "bass". If you understand their habits, and
you have experience catching fish there, then I wouldn't chance hooking
a fish that could mean the difference between a check and a donation.

Good luck!

Chris
alwaysfishking wrote:



I have a buddy tourney this Saturday and will be pre-fishing a few hours
tomorrow a.m and Friday a.m. I did this tourney last year and we put up
with the snickers and jeers of "Those Fancy Rigged Bass Boys" for riding
in "My Wife's bathtub" as they called it. We finished 7th out of 22 teams.

Question: I have not done too much prefishing for tourney's, On small
lakes would it be better to just rig up without a hook to see what the
bass are going after without hooking them? Any pre-fishing I've ever done
I always hooked the fish, But with this lake being an electric only very
small lake I am thinking otherwise. These may sound like stupid questions
but I really do not know. I would love to place in this tourney on the
same 9 foot 6 inch
bathtub that we took out last year with the cooler for a livewell. Any
suggestions? Idea's?




Regards,