Tounement practice

I am going up to FLW in bemidji 3 days early, how do you guys usaully break up your days into finding a program and fish?

Spinners, cranks, jigging and livebait rigging

This where you have to find a pattern that works for you. The best advice I can give you is do what you do best and feel comfortable doing. The guy’s prefishing are going to be tight lipped about their prefishing techniques and strategies. Treat it like a vacation and just relax and go fishing and have fun. Good things come when you are having fun. If I was not fishing this one I would explain in detail in a pm on what I do prior to Tournament time. It might not be what other fisherman do, but its what works for me.

Treating like a vacation, that is excactly what I am going to do, bringin my oldest son up to fish , since he has some free time

The only advice I can offer above what John suggested without giving away our gameplan for Bemidji, is find someone to work with pre-fishing if you can. I tried to fish these alone last year, and it didn’t work so well. I had some really successful pre-fishing days but just didn’t have enough fish figured out to adapt to changing conditions during the tournaments. You really learn a lot working with other anglers during these events, or at least I know I do. Also do your homework. My pre-fishing for this year’s tournaments started over seven months ago. I spent countless hours this winter reading through and analyzing fishing logs from the previous year and sorting through maps and fishing reports on each of the bodies of water we’re hitting this year. I’ve had my pre-fishing routines pretty much picked out weeks before I’ve even hit the water, and I’ve been somewhat lucky that everything I have tried this year has worked from the start. I haven’t had to do a lot of searching for fish, so I’ve really been able to work them over and figure them out. The rest you’ll have to figure out for yourself. Win or lose, the fun part is trying to figure them out and it feels great when a plan actually comes together.

Hunter88 you must be doing something right

I’ve just been extremely lucky, but I work harder than most so maybe I’m making some of my own luck. I know how intimidating it is to fish these for the first year with all the great anglers fishing, so just work hard and have fun. FLW has a great thing going with these league events. It’s a shame more people don’t realize how much fun it really is. It would be great to see these events filled. It’s good to see that you made the jump up. Good luck at Bemidji.

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I’ve just been extremely lucky, but I work harder than most so maybe I’m making some of my own luck. I know how intimidating it is to fish these for the first year with all the great anglers fishing, so just work hard and have fun. FLW has a great thing going with these league events. It’s a shame more people don’t realize how much fun it really is. It would be great to see these events filled. It’s good to see that you made the jump up. Good luck at Bemidji.

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Thanks, I have aquired a couple maps and have been scouring over them and looking for leads, so I got some good starting points.

You get out of it what you put into plus a little luck like you say helps

Should be fun, now if I could draw Glenn K and his lucky horse shoe