They cancelled today’s competition and this could help

Well, I’m at Lake Guntersville, back in my home state of Alabama where I actually know how to catch a fish. It’s competition day and here I am working on a blog. Not what you’d expect.

B.A.S.S. actually cancelled today’s competition. They felt there was some life-threatening weather here, so instead of fishing we’ve got a day to relax and get our tackles ready for tomorrow.

This could work to my benefit, because my plan for this tournament is to sight fish for spawning bass. They make a spawning bed on the river bank. And like I’ve mentioned before, you first have to see them. Then you have to go in there and watch them, and then react to what they do. It can take, gosh, up to an hour before they bite.

The way to ordinarily fish this lake is to fish the river ledges. And if I have to, I’ll do some of that. But I hope to be able to sight fish.

It’s been a strange spring. It was cold until late in the spring and, for whatever reason, the milfoil - the grass that’s predominant around here - just hasn’t grown. It’s low out in the water and I guess that’s why the river bites are scarce. … Now if you get bit, it’s a good one. But those bites are few and far between.

I’ve got a couple of places on the main river that I’m gonna look at, but my play is to sight fish. I just don’t think I can catch a limit out there on the river.

But, hey, we’ll see how it goes.