I'm with you crownliner. In the past two years I've become as comfortable
watching my electronics & drawing mental pictures of what's below my boat as
I used to be looking down the shorline for the next visable target.
Thinking back, I don't remember casting to a shoreline since last April
(Dale Hollow has very steep banks).
I caught hundreds of fish this year beyond the 20 foot zone this season, &
that totally delights me. Finding your own offshore spots that produce is a
beautiful thing, very satisfying indeed.
As for specializing, I may have some favorite techniques but I wouldn't say
I specialize in any in particular. Seems like every year a different
technique is predominate in my fishing. I feel a closed mind is an angler's
worst enemy.
Warren
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"Crownliner" wrote in message
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i am a deep water man. i spend almost all my time fishing deep with the
exception of the spawn, and then i don't bass fish because that is prime
hybrid weather.
i will tell you why i like the deep fishing. last sat i took a guest to
table rock lake in sw mo. we put in near the dam and went south. we hit
one of the big feeder creeks called clevenger and started working the topo
points i had spotted on the map. we found an old roadbed close to the
creek
channel in 45' of water and started circling from there. we worked the
area
about 1 1/2 hours with no results then found suspended spots in 100' of
water holding vertical from 45-60'. the arches were pronounced rather
than
flat. this indicated a more active school. just so you know the long
flat
arches usually indicate very dormant fish that are hard to catch.
in less than 2 hours we boated 20 kentucky and 1 smallmouth. the largest
8
were all solid four pounders and almost every fish was a 15" keeper. the
smallie went 3.2 on my rapala spring scales which are very accurate. i
don't use digitals as i have had some real screwed up readings. the scale
part is just a personal opinion, but the fishing part is a fact. if you
learn to fish deep structure on clear reservoirs (sp) you can catch fish
all
year.
i very seldom guide anymore, but i do take a few trips each year and fish
about 40 weekends out of the year. i spend most of them on truman lake
hybrid fishing, but when i am on table rock you will almost always find me
in the dam area, pulling spots out with spoons. if the summer pattern
gets
tuff i will use a nightcrawler rig.
merry christmas guys.
crownliner
"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
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I would have to say that I am a real generalist. I enjoy getting decent
at
any technique. If there is anything I consider myself a specialist at
it
is
the use of small and medium in-line spinners baits like those made by
Mepps
or Rooster Tail. I class small and mediume spoons int he same category
to
be use with a super fast burned retrieve in some circumstnaces, but
mostly
to be fished with a pulsing retrieve or a stop and go retrieve.
My secondary area is fishing minnows. I prefer balloon rigging or
totally
un rigged (nothing but a hook). I can't use the minnows in tournmanet
fishing so I really haven't used them this year.
--
Bob La Londe
www.YumaBassMan.com
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