Some fish less days??? LOL !!!
I have dedicated the last several of seasons to get a lot more intimate with my home lake by rendering what this man had to say, along with what a lot of you here had to say as well, for someone like me who can not spend every day at the lake or even every weekend at the lake it's down right frustrating to be honest, it's however a necessary evil and I accept that fact because it's what I have made my mind up to do, this year I believe will be better, finally, I hope.
In his book he spoke of lakes being bait specific, some being better suited for cranking, some for plastics and so on, the question I have is what is it about each that makes them more suited to one bait or another ? Bill spoke of clearity of structure, I'm assuming he meant cleaner? Less silt on rocks etc...?
In the past couple of years and the reason I am asking, I have worked really hard on various baits, lots of which are not unproductive but, not giving the results I had hoped for for the amount of effort put in, it's not that I have low confidence in the baits either, I have used the same baits in other lakes with the same techniques and they by far out performed my home lake, this on the other hand is actually exciting in a sense to know I can pack for any lake and have a lot of confidence in each, it's exciting to me to know that this effort is starting to show results.
This will be my fourth season since dedicating myself to understanding what it is going to take and so far both of my trips to my home lake have been focused solely on structure, im finding the main river channels, I'm finding where the fish leave these channels and head for the mouths of major creeks that they use to spawn, im finding I have a lot more patience than I ever thought I had before that's for sure !! LOL!!
What is it, after realizing the amount of work that this is taking and still the long road ahead, that makes an angler want to leave the visible atributes of the shallows and head for open water?
I hope to yield some results this season with a definitive answer to that question.