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| Any information from a "reliable" source is valuable, unfortunately the only info your going to get from most casters is what was happening in the shallows. Your only getting part of the story. If the friend said he made contact early in the day (before 10:00am) and it's summer time, the guide line says if we have not experienced a weather or water change then we CAN expect another movement later in that same day. If it was during the colder times of the season and he said he made contact in the mid day then it may be a good day to learn some new things about the lake.  Jerry Borst Spoonplugger/Instructor | |||
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Posts: 829 Location: Maple Grove, MN | If he was my friend, he'd tell me everything - not one part or the other.  I tell all my friends what has been working where and what hasn't. I think they would give me a strange look if I ever told them the 1% or 99% thing. Either way, I doubt I'd change my game plan on what someone else found at a different time of the day. Fish move a lot and just because they were hitting on a certain lure on a certain time at a certain place doesn't mean they will be later in the day. The fish could have moved by then and be on totally different structure that requires a totally different approach. A likely scenerio is the fish moving from shallow water early out to open water later in the day. Just because they were in three ft of water early doesn't mean they aren't in 30 ft now. Come to think of it, I can count on one hand the number of times someone gave me specific information that paid off exactly as it did for them. Something is always different - the weather, the mood of the fish, time of day, something. Besides, the friend may have just caught the only two fish in the lake that would bite that one particular lure. Trying what he did might be worth a try, but something different might be much better.... | ||
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| Correct! The days where fish activity lasts more than "minutes" in a 24 hour period is a rarity not the rule. Ever hear it from the resort owner "should have been here last week?" On an average day fish "may" become active once or twice. The majority of the time they have moved either so deep or become so dormant or inactive they are almost impossible to catch. The reason we don't "see" fish is because they are not there. A fish can become active at any time, and at any depth but he dose "NOT" stay that way long! The challenge is to take a bait past em at the "time" activity takes place. If the "school" of fish became active at 8:00am and moved no farther than 20' and we spent the last 9 hours casting across the weed tops how many fish are we likely to catch? However if they became active and some moved all the way to the shallows then we may have had our chance. Breaks or cover can hold fish for a longer periods of time. 1 or 2 smaller fish may indicate a movement or they could just be a straggler. So we talk to our "reliable" source at 3:00pm he says he hasn't seen any activity for the last 6-8 hours and he hit the best areas. If the weather hasn't changed, That tells us that our chances are good. Jerry Borst Spoonplugger/Instructor | |||
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