I think a day of pre-fishing is good. It gives you a chance to see what the water is like and to run through your equipment and make sure everything is working. Hopefully establish a pattern. Or eliminate a few. I certainly wouldn’t spend a week doing it.
I don’t know if it helped maybe it did, but it got me to get off of work and fish and find maybe some spots that could help. So I enjoyed it. Also want to thank the people that gave me great pointers in fishing this area.
A day of fishing is a day of fishing so it has to help Of course I caught better fish the day before the tournanament and the day after than I did on Saturday but that is how it usually goes. It is a good thing my partner carries me on the rough bites
Of course it pays. Gave me another day off work and more time to drink beer with friends. We put a 28″ walleye in the boat pre-fishing so that was worth it. As far as getting a sauger bite dialed in, yes it helped eliminate a lot of spots that weren’t holding fish.