Ever heard someone say something like, “I’m pretty dialed in. I’ve got the perfect pattern. All you have to do is find a dock in exactly 6.7 feet of water with round poles, precisely two docks from the back of a pocket, and you’ll get bit.” That might be a little bit of an exaggerated example, but over-patterning is one thing that is easy to do. I have done it, and I’m sure you have too.
Bass fishing is the most frustrating, yet most exhilarating sport in the world. There is nothing like stumbling on a pattern where you can run around the lake and catch a fish on command. At the same time, it’s really easy to over complicate a pattern and spin yourself out.
Trying to run an intricate pattern can not only eat up your whole day while burning 50 gallons of gas, but it can also leave you with little to nothing to show for it. If you have to run 20 minutes just to find a place that looks like that fool-proof pattern you stumbled upon earlier that morning, you are probably overthinking it. I promise a few fish lived somewhere along that 15 miles of lake your Mercury just blew past to find that laydown with six limbs on it.
Bass might seem like the most intelligent, elusive creatures on the planet when you have idled what seems like the Dead Sea for 12 hours, beating your head against that big HDS-12. However, I promise you are smarter than them. Continue reading – http://flwfishing.com/tips/2016-02-23-don-t-over-pattern