Running & Gunning vs. Taking your sweet time

[earthworm77]

I don't think this has anything to do with lack of knowledge as someone alluded to. It has everything to do with patience. Nothing wrong with moving around until you find them however given the circumstances and weather, this time of year, perhaps he really should slow down. I'm all for moiving around until you actually find fish.

[cart7t]

If I have limited time and I'm on a familiar lake I'll concentrate on my high percentage areas but fish them slowly.  I'm not a real run n gun type person because I prefer to fish slow presentation lures in high percentage areas.

[Tucson]

I like life in the slow lane, gives me time to relax and just be.  If I'm fishing plastics I'll spend a lot of time at each spot so I can work it over well.  I move a little faster when I'm doing cranks or spinners but still a long way from run & gun.  I think we're all a little too stimulated these days and need to slow down but that's only my opinion.  Gotta be productive, gotta go fast, gotta catch them fishes and get back home. gotta....whatever.  Even when moving to a new spot I seldom exceed 3500 rpm.  I've always gotten where I wanted to be and enjoyed myself in the process.  

[SPEEDBEAD.]

We are talking Lake Varner here guys, where Randall hangs all those hawgs. I see Randall out on the lake, he sits on a spot till he wears it out. My buddy completely disagrees with the tactic, he wants to cover the entire lake in one outing................(even though he sees the results from Randall's posts......

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I havent seen any response from your partner on here....

[Guest the_muddy_man]

Depends on how much time I have to fish . Most the time me and Ron fish a trolling motor only lake so we usually set up in relation to a shore or weed bed and let the boat go on a slow wind driven drift only using the motor to get froom place to place, or make adjustments to the drift

 If we only have a couple of hours to fish its more like run and gun

[Fishin Phil]

Depends on why you are fishing.  Just relaxing on a weekend and a tourny are two different things.  Me and my buddy have the same conflicting views.  There may not be a right or wrong but there is such thing as way to fast and way to slow.  It's a compromise.

[Pa Angler]

I have done both, I'll move around to I find fish then work the area until there's no more action. I have already spent 8hrs on two areas one being about a 3 mile stretch on the Indian River at Black Lake, NY working both sides one upstream and one downstream caught fish on both sides using the Auto-Pilot on my trolling motor that alone was about 6hrs the other spot was an island fished all the way around. Sometimes running has to be used but once you find fish you need to stay and play.

Chow

[BD]

Taking my time 190%....

[Siebert Outdoors]

You gotta know when to hold'em and you gotta know when to fold them.

Or, if the fish are not there move.  No reason to fish in dead water.  Fish slow move fast.

[fishbear]

We are talking Lake Varner here guys, where Randall hangs all those hawgs.  I see Randall out on the lake, he sits on a spot till he wears it out.  My buddy completely disagrees with the tactic, he wants to cover the entire lake in one outing................(even though he sees the results from Randall's posts......

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I havent seen any response from your partner on here....

That Speadbead is because he thinks this forum is not something he should bother himself with.....

He laughs when I tell him what I read on here, tells me He figured me to come to this site and join up......  He sees Randalls posts from a couple of other websites he browses thru.....

[jomatty]

i like to run and gun when i can.  however i think you need to know when to slow down.  for me when its really hot or really cold then i fish painfully slow and really milk my areas trying to bonk one on the head.  if there is a cold front i milk the areas.  if its springtime then im gonna run and gun and stick with the high % areas to cast to as im moving by.

matt