Patterning fish Sept 2002

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Date: December 21, 2002 at 14:25:59
From: ken, [pool-64-223-39-246.prov.east.verizon.net]
Subject: Patterning fish Sept 2002

The simplest patterns are obvious and if you are not looking for them, hard to notice. They are simple. If you find fish on points then there are fish on points. If you find fish on bars then they are on the bars. If you find fish in the rocks then they are in the rocks. These are patterns and they can be refined.
They are not absolutes but they often are helpful.
If the fish are on major points then go from one major point to the next. If they are on secondary points then look for them there. If they are on south facing points then look on south facing points. There is a lot more to this than simple formulas and it gets more complex as you factor in more information (bait, wind, Moon phase, results as you explore) and your experience grows but it is very helpful as a strategy. Using these patterning principles adds texture to finding fish and makes it more interesting than racing around and hoping. I have found fish to be on one side of a bar and not the other and as I work down a beach I have found that often this pattern holds true on every bar that I find fish on that night or day. It is not always true and both sides and the front of those bars should be fished but it is true that it happens the way I described it and does happen often. I have found fish on the left hand corner of a beach and then moved along and found fish on the left hand corner of other beaches that had the same characteristics that same night. I have found fish on the inside of breachways in the ponds and none on the beaches and gone to the next breachway and found the same thing happening and on and on. This is a pattern and is not just happening in one pond, sometimes. This doesn't mean that there are no fish on the beaches at those places but it is a pattern that you might want to explore. Once you find one pattern you may also find other patterns that are operational and predictable at the same time. Patterning fish is an old timer practice that works. It is not perfect but it is interesting and it works if you work at it. Sometimes it is uncanny in it's effectivness. Word (and work,) to the wise!

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