Thread: Learning lakes vs learning knowledge

We've broke down Harris. Into 3 lakes , in the last 4 months targeting bass. From crosspoint ramp to the right Cary- buckhorn creek, is 1, from that split to left heading torward holleman ramp is 2, from holleman to under bridge is 3. Was at the back of little white oak creek, this past Sunday and seen a guy single pole fishing, past the power lines in 10-12ft catch 4-5, 2 he used net.

I say learn the fish. It don't matter how good you know a lake if you don't know how the fish relate to weather change and conditions it will be hard fishing. I think learning Crappie is just as hard if not harder than learning Bass. The hardest lesson I had to learn was that "all crappie don't spawn at the same time or same depth". Unlike most crappie fishermen I don't like to fish the spawn.
If you have good electronics much of the lake learning has already be done for you. I said most...not all. If you don't have good electronics then buy a chart map and study it during the dull (most) periods in the football game on a rainy sunday. Don't try to learn all parts of a big lake in a short time. The big question I ask myself often is "Why are these crappy here today." If you don't understand the fish and think like a fish you won't figure it out many times.