Pros fishing your honey holes

[Mr. Aquarium]

I’ve always wondered how a pro would do if they could fish my honey holes.  My honey holes are smaller bodies of water. Small boat waters. I’m definitely not at pro level. I would love to see how a pro would fish my spots 

[Team9nine]

Give them just a little time on the water and you’d be surprised at all the productive patterns, locations and stuff they’d come up with, as well as what doesn’t work. I’ve seen it first hand fishing with Wheeler over the years on smaller bodies of water (30-1300 acre lakes).

[gim]

I’ve always wondered this too. Even when I have a decent day out there I think “how much would I have gotten beat by today.”

[TnRiver46]

Pros fish my spots all the time, and they will be again in march at the 2023 bassmaster classic 

[Mr. Aquarium]

9 minutes ago, gimruis said:

I’ve always wondered this too. Even when I have a decent day out there I think “how much would I have gotten beat by today.”

Exactly!! I have my usual baits that I fish at these spots.  But what would they do, how would they fish. 

[gim]

1 minute ago, Mr. Aquarium said:

Exactly!! I have my usual baits that I fish at these spots.  But what would they do, how would they fish. 

There’s only one way to find out.

[A-Jay]

"how a pro would do if they could fish my honey holes."

I'd have to imagine pretty darn good.

 But they'd have to find it first . . . .

#menderchuckrules

A-Jay

[WRB]

Bassmaster’s Day on the Lake series answers your question with only 7A to 1P or 6 hrs on a unknown small lake. Let that pro revisit the lake a day later and it would be lights out.

I am not a pro but give me a detailed lake map and 2 days to fish your  “honey hole” lake and I will catch bass you are not aware of!

Tom

[Craig P]

Oh heck no!  I’d pack it in and sulk in a corner as a complete failure!  Lol

 

In all seriousness, I do not tourney fish but I always stay in tune with the amateur tourney results on my local lakes just to see if I am living up to the lake’s potential. My one lake, I am very respectable but the other that I started fishing more this year, oh heck no, I have lots to learn and some pros do fish those tourneys as they are locally popular.  It gives me motivation for sure to know that there is more to be achieved. 

[12poundbass]

13 minutes ago, WRB said:

Bassmaster’s Day on the Lake series answers your question with only 7A to 1P or 6 hrs on a unknown small lake. Let that pro revisit the lake a day later and it would be lights out.

I am not a pro but give me a detailed lake map and 2 days to fish your  “honey hole” lake and I will catch bass you are not aware of!

Tom

Do I have to buy your plane ticket or just house and feed you? ?

[WRB]

Let me know when the ice is out?

Tom

[Susky River Rat]

I get my butt whipped by local guides much less pros. The hobie kayak tournament fishes about half of my local river range. Seeing some of the go pro footage those guys clean up. I know my dad and I have talked about this. I don’t always think “my local knowledge” is best. A pro that has never fished it will not get stuck in the memories of fishing it like you or I probably would.

[Catt]

9 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Pros fish my spots all the time, and they will be again in march at the 2023 bassmaster classic 

 

Yes Sir ?

 

Toledo Bend, Rayburn, Sabine River, Caney Lake, Fork.

[Mike L]

One of the advantages of being a Marshall/Official is the little things that you see and learn without a word said. 
 

A game I play in my head is to match what they’re doing with what I would do, where I would go compared to where he went,  how they fish certain baits in different water during the course of the day and especially how they break the lakes down looking for and establishing a pattern. 

More than once on my #1 and 1a lakes I’d bet money where they would go and what they would do given the time of the day and conditions.

Sometimes I guess right and sometimes completely wrong.

 

A lot of times I’d sit back and say to myself “why would he stop here and do that”??

Trust me when I tell you most of these guys are no joke!
 

 

 

 

 

Mike

[GRiver]

The pros fish around my dock when a tournament comes  through. Camera boats, drones flying around, its quite the show. One caught over a 7 lb in between mine and neighbors dock. I fish that area all the time, testing reels I’ve worked on etc.  or just killing a little time.  Ricky C caught almost 9lb two docks down, under my buddy’s dock, he’s always fishing around his dock too. 
Something to be said to the way the pros do it….. technic, bait, confidence, presentation or what. 
Then again maybe it’s just me.

[Frezzy]

On a large body of water, I think the difference between a pro and a local weekend warrior would be quite noticeable. 

 

On some of my small ponds/lakes, I'm positive I could hold my own against the pro's.  Only so many places a fish can hide on smaller bodies of water.  I'm throwing the same baits they are.  

[Jar11591]

I would love to see how pros would fare on a few of my honey holes. Especially because how inaccurate contour maps for some of my lakes can be. 

[Mr. Aquarium]

A lot of my bodies of water don’t have tournaments. No big boats.  Just weekend warriors.   But they fish comparable to a big lake in terms of structures. Humps, ledges, points, etc.   

some guys I know clean house, but they fish different then me. 

[roadwarrior]

13 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Pros fish my spots all the time, and they will be again in march at the 2023 bassmaster classic 

My honey holes could be called "community holes".  There is not much on Pickwick that is secret.

[Bluebasser86]

I'd love to see the pros who are good offshore smallmouth fishermen come here and try to catch them. I could be wrong, but I think they'd either have to adapt or they'd leave very frustrated. 

 

Mostly, they'd probably just come away disappointed with how many small bass they were catching from most of our lakes I'd guess. I don't think they'd have any problems catching them though. 

[Mr. Aquarium]

29 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I'd love to see the pros who are good offshore smallmouth fishermen come here and try to catch them. I could be wrong, but I think they'd either have to adapt or they'd leave very frustrated. 

 

Mostly, they'd probably just come away disappointed with how many small bass they were catching from most of our lakes I'd guess. I don't think they'd have any problems catching them though. 

I have a 300 acre pond like that. I catch mostly largemouth used to be a great smallie pond. I would love to see how a pro would do. Small boat only. No ramp. But deep and clear.   Not crazy off shore structure like the big lakes but there is some. 

[king fisher]

I wish a pro would come show me how to fish my home water.  Right now I am not sure if I could catch a bass at my local honey hole, with Dynamite, and hand grenades'.  Some professional help would be highly appreciated.

[Mr. Aquarium]

2 hours ago, king fisher said:

I wish a pro would come show me how to fish my home water.  Right now I am not sure if I could catch a bass at my local honey hole, with Dynamite, and hand grenades'.  Some professional help would be highly appreciated.

That to. I would love to learn on how they fish. So I can come back and keep slaying bass

[Tennessee Boy]

So let's say you have a choice.  

 

You can select any one of the Elite or Bass Pro Tour pros to come fish your honey hole with you as long as the pro you select has never fished the water before.

 

or you can fish with a successful local guide who has been guiding on your honey hole for decades.

 

Which would you chose?

[Mr. Aquarium]

40 minutes ago, Tennessee Boy said:

So let's say you have a choice.  

 

You can select any one of the Elite or Bass Pro Tour pros to come fish your honey hole with you as long as the pro you select has never fished the water before.

 

or you can fish with a successful local guide who has been guiding on your honey hole for decades.

 

Which would you chose?

Totally a guide. Because they know the local water. They been learning that body of water for years. That’s their livelihood.  A pro would be good and adaptable anywhere they have to be. But a guide would be a better choice for specific bodies of water.  But there’s no bass guides in these parts