| 1. Keep Your Engine Looking New | | | | Keep working the same area....what can it hurt! I |
| You should see the stares I get when I pull out of | | | | have been rewarded time and time again! |
| the water. Oh no, it's not the engine or the boat | | | | 4. Go Deep During Cold Fronts |
| that people stare at, it's me wiping down the | | | | During Tournaments I have been confronted |
| engine. | | | | many times by cold fronts and believe you me it |
| By doing this to your engine with a dry cloth while | | | | can be frustrating! One thing that I have learned |
| it's still wet you can eliminate embarrassing | | | | through the years is that when cold fronts come |
| exhaust and water marks before they dry up | | | | in I go deep! |
| and become hard to remove. Not only does it | | | | The reason we do better in deeper water during |
| save you time cleaning it at home with chemicals, | | | | cold fronts, in my opinion, is that the Bass down |
| which could harm your engines outer shell, it also | | | | deep aren't as susceptible to the sudden climate |
| helps keep it looking brand new. | | | | change as the shallow Bass are. The only thing |
| Whether you have a small, medium, large or a | | | | dictating what depth to fish is the wind. When a |
| high performance engine on your boat why not | | | | strong wind is a part of the front then I go even |
| keep it looking new! | | | | deeper simply because deeper water will 'turn' |
| 2. Prevent Rust | | | | later than shallow water. |
| Tackle now a days doesn't come cheap so why | | | | We don't have a crystal ball to see the Bass |
| let rust ruin your investment. The trick to | | | | fishing future, but at the very least we can try |
| stopping rust from forming is letting the lure or | | | | something that has worked in past outings! |
| hook dry on its own before storing it back into its | | | | 5. Clear Water Blues |
| rightful place. Rust spreads from one hook to the | | | | Clear water calls for different; well you might say |
| other if stored damp and when its time for your | | | | unorthodox methods of catching weary Bass. |
| next outing, well you know! | | | | Hey, if you can see them in the clear water |
| When changing up tackle I keep a dry little plastic | | | | amongst the weeds then they can surely see |
| container in my tackle storage compartment in | | | | you! |
| the boat. I drop the tackle in the container so that | | | | Now remember, you see them so, the good thing |
| it has plenty of time to dry. At the end of the | | | | is you know darn well they are there! So what I |
| day I sort through them all making sure that they | | | | do is cast or flip my bait, combined with a |
| are all dry before putting them back in their | | | | fluorocarbon leader, a good far distance from the |
| rightful place. | | | | boat and let it hit the water with the loudest |
| It may sound tedious to some, but when you | | | | splash I can muster. Stealth, in this case, is |
| consider a good quality hook costs a dollar and up | | | | irrelevant. Think about it...if the Bass are in there |
| then why would you put damp tackle in with the | | | | and not spooked by natural noises such as Cray |
| dry tackle letting rust spread like the plague! | | | | fish, wounded bait fish, dropped minnows from |
| 3. Catch More Than One Bass | | | | fighting gulls or just a frog, they will come and |
| When you notice a Bass quickly swimming off | | | | see what made the ruckus. Better yet, if the bait |
| with your bait chances are there is more than | | | | just happens to land in the Bass's line of view, it |
| one! I strongly believe that when competing for | | | | will smack it thinking that it's just Mother Nature in |
| food Bass will take the bait and swim away with | | | | the vicinity and not a Bass Boat! |
| it in one quick motion when schooled together! | | | | |