I guess it's true what they say. "never bet against a man on his home lake"
Sure there are days when any decent angler can put fish in the boat if the
bite is on. However there is a distinct advantage to having fished a lake
over and over again.


For me, I tend to remember where I caught fish on similiar days, weather,
wind, water color etc etc. when Harry was up here with Jerry and we had our
mini tourney, the bite was no where near "on fire", but remembering where
and how I caught fish in similiar conditions had me and Jerry with about 20
fish to the boat that day and lots of those fish were taken in water already
fished by the other teams. We wound up beating the second place team by 5 or
6 pounds as we were culling by 8:30 am