Westernbass Magazine - FREE Bass Fishing Tips And Techniques - Fall 2015, Page 50

Westernbass Magazine - FREE Bass Fishing Tips And Techniques - Fall 2015, Page 50

would show the first day as a failure in the first part of the episode, do further research, and add the other day on the back end of the show.

I got five bites in the first episode in a little over three hours fishing a swim jig. So, when planning the second day in the summer, when fish throughout the south are on their offshore ledges and drops, I decided it was going to be an offshore deal. I searched

the Navionics chart on their web app and

Hookset at Palmetto Creek Bridge on Neely Henry

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found a spot where a major creek channel and feeder creek come together at the end of flat, with a point dropping off into the main creek, on the front and one side on the feeder creek.

I had three deep crankbaits tied on; a Strike King 6XD, a River2Sea Goon and a SPRO Little John Baby DD. I also had a Strike King Denny Brauer Structure Jig and a Magnum Shaky Head by Davis Baits and a big worm on there.

When I arrived, I scanned the area with the

Structure Scan on my Lowrance

HDS Gen2Touch 9, and found bait

and fish all over the corners of

the point. Baitfish were flitting on

the surface of the water and there

was activity on the screen. I was all

ready to wreck ‘em. A little over an

hour later, and I had ZERO bites.

That’s when I remembered

something that Larry Nixon had

once told me his father said to him as

a young angler. I had asked him why

he had always done so well in the

old Bassmaster Megabucks format

tournaments. He said that his; “daddy

had always told me to look at a lake

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