Want to know what the pros are looking for on their graph units when they're searching out these ledge schools of bass? This is a screen shot Jacob sent to me on Day 2 of practice down on Chickamauga showing a group of bass on what became one of his daily rotation spots. This one ultimately yielded a couple of the winning fish weighed during the course of the tournament.
Along a similar line, many readers probably have some knowledge of the relationship I have with Jacob, now going back about 9 years when I first met him and took him fishing (at age 14). Since I've been running this site, I've always tried to be careful about overdoing coverage of him in light of this fact and how things might be perceived, to the point that I've never even interviewed him for this site. However, I've decided to break that long-standing tradition, but with a twist.
After speaking with Jacob today, we've agreed to doing an interview once he gets back and settled after these next couple of events - but we're going to let the readers determine the questions that get asked. You can either post a question on the Big Indiana Bass Facebook Page, or e-mail it directly to me at the site address: bigindianabass "at" ccrtc "dot" com (see 'Contact Us' in the upper left corner of site). We'll go through and pick the 10 or 12 best questions and get them answered for you. Could be Tour related, a "how-to" question, or even something about local lakes. Practice, events, baits, boats, tackle, electronics - you decide what you want to know.
So start thinking about it and get those questions submitted. Feel free to send in as many as you'd like, and we'll whittle them down to the best and most informative ones - then look forward to his answers in the near future.
There's obviously more to it than meets the eye (don't I know). One way to help narrow the search is to triangulate the preferred water temps of both sought after predator and abundant prey for the time and place of known staging areas and migration routes. Then look for structure or cover in closest proximity to your findings that will also be away from even, not hold that many larger predators (check these niches as well)that might eat the species you are after.
Posted by: Richard Ziert | June 18, 2014 at 06:57 PM
Congrats to Jacob!!! The kid is on fire..Forest Wood Cup winner, Ultimate Fishing Match champion & now Bassmaster Elite winner... Not bad for being 23 years old...
Posted by: Bartman | June 30, 2014 at 09:36 AM