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With the modern day bass boats being equipped with 200 plus outboards, we all tend to travel 70+ mph to get from one spot to another. While it is perfectly acceptable on tournament days-consider slowing down on your practice and fun fishing days. About 2 years ago I was practicing for a local tournament on my home lake and wash checking a drop off which had some small schooling fish which I found the previous weekend. I had my fish finder on along with the depth and fish alarm. After verifying the fish were still there I decide to go to another area. While I was running to my next “hole” I past an area that sounded all of my alarms, the fish alarm, depth set alarm (which I forgot I had on) etc. I didn’t pay much attention and continued on to my next area. While on my way back the same thing happened again and in the same area as before.
This time I decided to check it out… I stopped and idled around the area and found a hump that came up to about 4′ deep while the surrounding water depth was at about 10′ deep. I grabbed a lipless crankbait and quickly realized that not only was there a hump but it was loaded with submerged grass. I picked up a worm and on my first cast caught a nice 3-1/2 lb largemouth bass. I continued fishing and dissecting the area and continued to catch fish from this hump for about 3 weeks. I have been fishing this lake this lake for almost 15 years and never realized this hump existed.
Next time you are on your old faithful body of water or at a new lake and your practicing for a tournament or fishing for fu;n consider when running from one spot to the next slowing down and keeping an eye on your depthfinder. You never know what you may stumbled upon.
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I couldnt agree more. I started runing around lake in practice days at about 15 mph to check bottow contures and it is the first thing I recomeend to friends that fish tournaments.
Its good advise. I had another experience on lake Kissimee in Florida, was running from north end to south end. Found grass patches in the middle of no where. Again depth finder almost jumped of the boat with all the bells and alarms sounding. Fished them for 2 days by myself, not another angler in sight. Limit both days, big fish on 2nd day and placed 4th. Not bad after practicing for 2 days and finding nothing. Saved my butt. Thanks for your comments.