It’s early in the game and the leaderboard is expected to widely fluctuate. Even so an early top performer is David Walker. He’s got lots of experience fishing impoundments like Lake Martin, including those where he lives during the off season in East Tennessee. Here’s what he told me this morning, which provides a glimpse of what he’s thinking might pan out this week.
“We have a late winter going on here, like many other places in the South,” he said. “But the last couple of days we’ve had lots of rain, and warm rain.”
As such the warmer, colored water might be an impetus for moving the largemouth into shallow water.
“It definitely could get them moving back toward the bank, and fire up a largemouth bite that normally we might not have like this with a late winter.”
Coincidentally, more rain, and warm rain, is coming by the weekend.