![]() ![]() €œOnce I feel something different, or catch a fish, I immediately drop a second marker buoy right in front of my trolling motor – sometimes I actually toss out the buoy while I’m fighting the fish. I’m looking for that one little patch of something different that not even the best electronics in the world can detect because it literally has to be ‘felt’ by the angler. “I cast a Carolina rig, a football jig or a DT16 crankbait to get a precise feel for the bottom. Then it’s time to start searching with rod and reel,†he said. €œOnce I’ve located the hump with my electronics, I drop the first buoy simply as a marker to identify its basic location. Iaconelli defines the sweet spot as anything on the structure that’s different than the surrounding substrate, such as a single large boulder, a stump or perhaps a patch of rock or gravel on an otherwise soft muddy or sandy bottom. But once you narrow it down to the hump or ledge, then you’ve got to find the sweet spot on the hump or ledge.†Finding that one magical hump that’s half the size of a hockey rink amid 60,000 acres of water is a serious task in ‘narrowing the window’. You know you’re looking for humps and ledges near deep water. €œLet’s say you’re faced with fishing a huge 60,000 acre reservoir during this time of year. I learned as a kid fishing from a jon boat that there’s always a sweet spot on the lake bottom, and a $4 marker buoy is the greatest tool there is to help with what I call ‘narrowing the window’ down to that sweet spot. €œIt’s the best, most important, inexpensive, piece of equipment you can own as a bass angler. ![]()
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