There is no doubt about it...pretty simple, if you don't find fish...you won't catch fish. You can be the best at every technique there is, have the best boat, best rods, best reels and all the lures ever made...but if you are not fishing where there are fish, you are gonna look good but you aren't going to catch anything but maybe a cold.

This is what I teach in my winter classes and on some of my focused teaching guide trips...how to "eliminate water" to find the fish.