Gettys Brannon relayed how today is slower than yesterday in an earlier blog. He has some good info that shows really what a grind this event is turning into.
We are up the river in some of the prettiest habitat we’ve seen all season. Everything looks like there could be a bass on every cast. Anyone who has seen Ross Barnett and the massive flats filled with a variety of aquatic vegetation knows what I’m referring to. But the bass really aren’t cooperating in a way the backdrop suggests they would. A lot of it is because you have a lot of truly great anglers crammed into a small space.
When you add post spawn with that kind of pressure and unstable weather it gets kind of dicey at times. This isn’t one of those events where you see the guys at the top really stroking a bunch of fish. Almost every angler in this field is fishing for five bites not expecting to cull a bunch. Just hope his five is better than the rest.
There’s a lot to learn from these events as fishermen. Almost all of us have places and days where this is how we fish. Truth told it’s our life.
I love watching these guys just stroke them on Kentucky Lake or Toledo Bend, but I get to really learn a few things when I see these guys have to make adjustments on tough, pressured days. Those are the things that eventually pay off.
So while it’s a grind, it will be interesting to see some new tactics and/or lure adjustments by the time it’s over.