Jason Christie is primarily making a half-mile drift across this flat. We have to be on somewhere between 20 or 30 drifts in the basic same line.
Why these fish are here is hard to say. It’s pretty non-descript. There is a big spawning area (read shallower flat) about 2 1/2 to 3 miles to our east. There isn’t an over abundance of anything that you could say with any certainty “this is why these fish are here.”
It could be as simple as there’s so many smallmouth in this lake that they occupy every inch of this lake and Christie is comfortable enough to just stay here and catch what lives in this half-mile piece of it.
We know that can’t be it. But we are having trouble settling on any clues. Still we keep drifting and Christie keeps catching fish, just not the big one.