NOT FOR THE WEAK OF MIND PART II

[Topwater_Popper]

Weak minded am I!

[FIN-S-R]

Back from vacation and lots of time on the lake with a couple of smallies in the fours and a LMB over six...winter crankin' is great. Anyway, there were some questions about the numbers and terms used in the chart, so Ill try to explain it as best I can...remember i made it and i know what it means, so that may make it hard for me to explain it very well, so if I leave somthin' out, just hit me again.

The numbers on the left hand side on the top table in the chart represent arbitrary "ratings" for different areas of a lake. They are "rated" from the most main lake to the least main lake with a score of 1 being the most main lake location. The numbers in the gray boxes in this table are simply the extremes of the most and least main lake positions associated with the corresponding typical seasonal patterns. The line that runs through the chart from left to right going up and down respresents the calculated "middle" spot for that seasonal pattern. At the bottum of the table there is a row titled position score, this is just the middle position previously reffered to. The pink boxes represent the sort of places that dont exaclty fit the accepted pattern, but always hold resident fish, for ex. some fish spawn in main lake pockets...they dont all go to the backs of protected shallow coves off the main lake.

So in short, the first table in the chart is a position prediction tool.

The second table in the chart is for choosing a couple of techniques to try on the locations the first table pointed you to. RXN is just a chemistry abreviation for reaction. The Low and High RXN rows at the bottum give an indication of the mean technique reaction level for slow and fast moving lures that have some history showing they work well in the corresponding season. This is expressed in the title of table 2 "finnesse to reaction gradient". I split it into 2 types of techniques which are divided by the red line. Above the red line are slower plastic type tech.s, and below are hard bait type techs. The numbers in the gray boxes for this table are the corresponding numbers from the first collumn of the table (gradient from least RXN=1-weightless plastic to most RXN=16-vibration bait like vibe or lvr)

Now Im not gonna claim this will make you catch fish 100% of the time, but it will help you eliminate unproductive techniques and ares quicker, so that you can find the fish and figure out what they are doing in a very effective and efficient manner. It worked for me to the tune of an 18lb limit this weekend.