Toll Bridge to Shawnee Bend, Slow Working Bedding Fish, Pea Gravel

Today i mixed it up a little bit. I crappie fished meanwhile looked for spawning bass. Ben and i have a big Joe Bass Tournament on Saturday we are leading the division and we want to keep it that way! We feel that fishing for bedding fish will be our best bet. Ben and i are not that seasoned in this technique but you got to learn at some point. During the big Bass Bash i searched and searched for bedders but couldn’t find any real big ones, but i did find and caught alot of solid tournament keepers. On this day i marked a few bigger fish and practiced on a few smaller ones. Sight fishing is quite deceiving, some fish that look really small are actually keepers this gave me more of an idea of what to look for. I fooled around with what i thought was small males that weren’t even keepers then when i caught them i pulled them out and measured them and they were 15-16 inch keepers. With sight fishing you really want to find the fish that are locked on the bed. If they swim away over and over it will be hard to catch them. The ones that stay right on the nest are easier to catch. You just have to keep throwing your bait in at them to make them mad, and they eventually bite!! This is not my strong point in fishing but it has become an addiction trying to learn.