BFL - Rayburn

Posted by ken on March 2, 2015

Lesson learned, again, and again and again. I went to Rayburn without prefishing as I mentioned in my blog last week. However I knew that the fish had come shallow the week before at Rayburn, maybe not in the bushes shallow but shallow nonetheless. But I went with the intent to catch them deep, which takes me to something Jay Yelas told me the other day. I am working on an article with him where I interviewed him the day before he started practicing for the FLW tour event at Toho and also each day after practice and after each tournament day. As he was driving cross country to Toho he said "I try not to make the mistake of showing up telling the fish how I'm going to catch them"...

So I stayed deep, caught one 5 lb fish and some smaller keepers, but they whacked them up shallow. My thinking was how cold it got the week after they went shallow, and actually the water temp Saturday morning was 49 degrees. But at Rayburn, especially if you are approaching the third full moon of the year, once thye go shallow they truly do not want to go back out deep. I knew this, but I went over there with the intent to catch them deep, and it costs me.