When to stay and when to leave?

[FryDog62]

It only works about 1 out of every 3-4 times, but if it’s a high percentage area I will throw a Ned in a different color than whatever I’ve been using previously.  Moving it slowly, even soaking it.  Give it about 10-15 more minutes and if they don’t bite, leave for at least and hour before coming back to try again if at all that day.  

[CrankFate]

On 5/9/2020 at 11:08 PM, A-Jay said:

Add some Coppertone and you've got July in Northern Michigan 

@12poundbass

A-Jay

Don’t get me started. I wear Soft Lens contacts. They get destroyed by the fumes from sunblock. One of the main reasons I leave in these conditions is they become plastic stickers that have to be scraped off my eyes after about 90 minutes of that.

[Bankbeater]

If I’ve been catching for a while and then the bass stop. I stick around because the bite will probably start again in 30 or 45 minutes. If I’ve only gotten one bite in 3 hours I leave. 

[RoLo]

On 5/10/2020 at 2:42 PM, frogflogger said:

After decades of bass fishing, tournament fishing, guiding and taking children fishing - whether to leave or not -flip a coin.

 

You make a valid point: 

 

I made light of this query on my 1st pass, because no one makes a decision they don't personally support.

Differently put: Who's going to ask you: "What made you stop here, it's just a waste of good time?"

Who's going to tell you: "After you left, there was a big feeding frenzy?".

 

 

Roger

 

 

 

[Bluebasser86]

It's a tough decision and part of constant mental game that is bass fishing. We played it big time Saturday during our tournament. During prefishing, we covered a lot of water, eliminated a lot of water, found some marginal spots, and a couple solid areas. This lake also has 2 large marinas that hold tons of fish, but get pounded day in and day out and have very little room to fish if there's more than a couple boats. It's also the spawn and the bass love to spawn in marinas. We made the decision that we were going to live and die in our spots and hope that the marina fishermen would steal enough fish from each other to keep one of them from catching a mega bag. We started on our main spot and it produced fish, and then a big fish, and another, and then the lake got busy and all the other good stuff got covered up. We worked it for 4 or 5 hours and left to check one of our secondary spots and it was much murkier than it had been and the fish weren't there. Then we had to wait in line to get back to our spot and we fished some new stuff nearby and never got another good bite. Finally it opened back up, we jumped back on it, caught our last cull that gave us another 1.5lbs, we won by just over a pound, should have never left.