Pre Fishing

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,