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Spring 2018
A
fter months of each day being a bit
longer than the last, the frigid grip of wintertime
is finally letting go. The drab melancholy colors of the winter’s months are now being pushed out by the bright
vibrant colors of spring. The emergence of spring means it’s
time to run and gun ponds with my kayak
searching hidden gem ponds
with both numbers of bass and big fish
potential!
I wish I had some scientific reasoning for why some
ponds fish hot in the spring and others you’re forced to
drag a Ned rig around for a few sniffs.
Truth is I’ve proved and then disproved just about
every theory there is out there, regarding which ponds
should fish well first. What I’ve found out is much like
anything else in life to get the best results nothing beats
rolling up your sleeves and working hard.
Instead of cherry picking one or two ponds that seem
to have the proper ingredients for great early spring bass
fishing, I run and gun fishing dozens of ponds in search of
two or three that I’ll spend the rest of the spring on.
Left a pond where I was slamming 2 pounders to scout another pond 3 miles away. Third cast on a new pond with a jig caught this pig.
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