We heard this at Lake Guntersville too: More people have died on bed fish here than have succeeded. It applies even more so in The Delta because of the tide.
Skeet Reese noted that yesterday, after catching his second-place bag of 25-8, but acknowledged it's always a quandary.
"It's hard not to fish for them when you can see them," Reese said. "But they get really spooky when you can see them."
Reese is sight-fishing now, and a lot of the anglers in this field will be doing that as the tide keeps dropping until about noon. But, at least for Reese, that will change at some point today. It's all about right place at the right time here, and that isn't necessarily sight-fishing on low tide.
"I caught my fish on five different lures (Thursday)," Reese said.
Because of the changing tide, you don't have all day to sit on giant spawning bass, even if you want to.
"You only get about two hours to look for them (in each area)," said Justin Lucas. "It's not like Florida, where you can just wait and eventually they'll come. Here they might come at high tide and you'll never see them."