Day 3 has begun, and it’s gotten off to a spirited start. Rick Clunn and Greg Hackney are on the LIVE Mix show, talking through the impact of forward-facing sonar.
“It facilitates me, just the knowledge I’ve learned,” said the legendary Clunn, who is most impressed by the insight into bass behavior that forward-facing sonar has provided.
“They do not act the way they did 15 years ago. Something’s changing,” added Hackney, unsure as to whether fishing pressure, the aging of the fisheries, or the technology is to blame for the shift in bass behavior.
Clunn remarked that he always believed bass moved deep, as in down to the bottom, after they spawned. And what he’s found instead through the new technology is that the majority of the fish never go to the bottom and instead stay up high in the water column.
Hackney reasoned that the pressure is what has pushed the fish off the bottom. But Clunn retorted that the fish are up high only because the bait is high, and the bait is high because that’s where the microorganisms grow the best, closest to the sun. Hackney’s response was, well how were a few guys able to catch bass non-stop on a crankbait in 20 feet of water, until everyone else started doing it?
Some very interesting conversations over on the LIVE Mix show this morning.
