Thread: Winter Patterns Question

Originally Posted by wahanlin

I definitely appreciate your advice. I do think there is a lot to be said for continuing to move around and find active fish. I am better than I used to be but still working on that, continuing to move and try new spots.

I have been focusing on targeting cover, and I am going to try targeting bait fish, particularly tight grouped balls of bait that look like they have predators under them.

I haven't been fishing in any water deeper than 25 feet, and I am going to look there as well on logan martin. It seems complicated this time of year, like the fish could be quite shallow or very deep or anywhere in between, which just means I need to spend more time looking. My outboard motor has been out of commission for a while which has made it harder to cover a lot of water.

I enjoy the challenge of figuring fish out, and I recognize that I need to stop fishing what I want to fish and let the fish tell me where they are and what they want. Thanks everyone for the input.

Sounds like we have a lot in common. I’m better but still bad about finding a good looking laydown or any spot and fishing way to long. I fished with Ditch once and he’d catch a big slab on a stump or brush put it in the cooler and start paddling. I was thinking where is he going??lol. At the end of the day he had a limit and returned a bunch of big fish. Ever since then I’ve tried to get better at it.


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Yeah I struggle between wanting to thoroughly fish a piece of cover after catching a fish and wanting to move on quickly. And sometimes I let myself get lazy and stay somewhere too long for no good reason. I have heard that in wintertime, sometimes there will be a small window during which crappie will bite, so if you find some fish it's worth staying on them until they turn on. Has anyone here found that to be true?

Yeah

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