the age-old adage never leave fish to find fish, but even if youre wrecking bass, youre scouting not fishing

scouting ponds in your kayak every spring will pay huge dividends

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Spring 2018

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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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