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Scott Patton Outdoors

March Madness
March is a month of up and down weather patterns for fishermen. A lot goes on in the under water world of the bass during this month. A comfortable warming trend can set in with only to have Mother Nature pull the rug out from under or boat decks. I know it can be frustrating trying to fish in twenty eight degree air temps when the day before it was a nice sunny seventy degrees. Yes the sun feels just as good to the bass as it does to us. Truth be known probably better to this cold blooded creature. I cant do much with Mother Natures dealings but just put up with it, and fish.

One thing I try not to do early in the spring is to get the idea that the bass have moved to far from shallow water. Although they may move shallow, they wont be far from deeper water. So I try to focus my fishing on channel banks moving back into the creeks. I like to keep the boat in at least ten feet of water and fish according to the days current weather. At this time of year you will have to adjust as the day progress. Early I will tend to fish a little deeper, say if im fishing a jig. I will fish the bait out to the boat to see if the bass are holding deeper and more than likely they will be. In the morning at this time of year they wont move to the shore line to feed like in the warmer months. The bass will feed at the warmest time of the day, say around one or two in the afternoon. At that time is when I will start fishing the shore line.

The best technique is to fish slow! You can cover a lot of water but just don’t fish your bait to fast. You will end up over fishing the fish. It doesn’t matter what lure im catching fish on I know I have to fish in tune with the natural world. What I mean by this is that there isn’t any creature that lives in the water that will be moving at high rates of speed, when the water temp is in the fifties so keep this in mind.

Awareness is the doorway to fishing success!

Scott Patton
Scott is sponsored by: Nitro Boats, Tracker Marine, Mercury Outboards, St. Croix Rods, Crown Spray Power and Boat & R/V Cleaner, ZOOM,

His Web site is www.scottpattonoutdoors.com