hey folks glenn may here with bassresource.com and i'm here with Hank
Parker with another weekly tip from Hank Parker where he answers your questions
and this week's question comes from Bob from what is that city mom honey my
honey City Pennsylvania is what I do Honus City - got that right Bob I really
do the question here is would like to know a during a tournament when do you
know you should give up fishing a pattern or lure and try something else
and what are the factors that you consider when you make that change
that's a great question and I like that and it varies you know our fish
tournaments on the st. Lawrence Seaway in New York where you're gonna catch a
hundred bass today most likely not always but you have a really good chance
to doing that and then I fish tournaments on Cherokee Tennessee where
if you get five bites you've had a great day so obviously it's a complete
different mindset on st. Lawrence Seaway versus Cherokee Lake in Tennessee so it
depends on what body of water you're on you know most of the time you can look
at the history when you've been to a lake or you've looked at a lake and
you've been there in the past and there's a history on how many pounds it
took to win a tournament and how many guys had limits in that tournament I try
to research and find out as much as I can a battle lake and when you're
fishing in that tournament it all depends on what body of water you're on
and what kind of bite you having how many pounds is it's going to take the
wind to make that adjustment again Cherokee Tennessee hey if you get five
bites in a day's time you've had a great day so you want to really concentrate on
on staying with your game plan and not deviate and you know you put it together
and practice and stay with it on the other hand the st. Lawrence Seaway man
there's a ton of smallmouth in that place and a lot of great largemouth and
if you don't have any fish going by ten o'clock throw that pattern away and go
to a go to pattern that you know produces fish on those tidal rivers and
just make small adjustments after you get your plan together and go for it I'm
not saying I did say it but let me back up and retract that I never lie
throwing my game plan away but if I hadn't got a fish and I'm on the st.
Lawrence Seaway something's definitely wrong because I should have already
caught 20 by now so I'm going to make some pretty big changes there whereas if
I were in Tennessee I would make little bitty changes perhaps but I wouldn't get
too radical because my bites is good I'm looking for a hundred bites and on the
st. Lawrence Seaway so I'm gonna I'm gonna make some more bigger adjustments
in New York than I would in Tennessee that's my whole point
so whatever is work for you and practice modify that make little changes for
example if you were catching the fish on the shoreline on a big rocky shoreline
and there's big boulders there and you were catching on a spinnerbait and today
you just can't buy a bite man you hadn't had a follow-up you hadn't caught a fish
go to a crankbait go to something to get on the bottom they're not coming up
after that bait if that doesn't work go to something in fish flow like a jig or
a sinking worm or tube but don't just abandon that area if those fish were
there they ain't going far and if you can't
catch them in there on the inside didn't move out and find the point find an area
where there's a break line and then fish that break line those types of
adjustments are the adjustments that have paid off for me rather than abandon
the whole game plan that you've put together in practice that's fantastic
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