Entry 70-4
Mark Rose On Fishing Specific Types Of Weather
"My Lure Went Out on Me"
Editor's Note: Thirty-one-year-old Mark Rose of Marion, Arkansas, fishes professionally, but in the past, he's worked as a district executive for the Boy Scouts of America's national office. This week Rose shares with us how he succeeds in situations where other fishermen are ready to pull in their rods.
Question: What do you do when the lure you’ve been fishing with doesn't seem to work?
Rose: You definitely need to change colors then. Some say that color doesn't matter to a bass, but I make my living fishing. I know that color matters. You won't be fishing in a spot with a certain bait unless you have some confidence in it. So, try switching bait colors.
Typically, when my lure stops being effective, I go to a different pattern or leave that particular area. There are aggressive fish on any body of water at any given time; you just have the find the right spot. Completely changing tactics can also work, like going from finesse to power or power to finesse.
Question: What do you do if you’re fishing in a tournament and a competitor has beat you to your fishing spot?
Rose: Competitive fishing is like any competitive sport. There is an etiquette involved. If the other fisherman has gotten there first on the first day of the event, it is a wide-open game. That's why you need to put in a lot of hard work and have back-up plans for everything. We only fish 12 or 13 events in a year's time, so we strategize.
If that particular person is going over his limit and is not using etiquette, then I believe in the policy of talking about it and working it out between two professionals. A lot of times if it’s a small area and two boats can't both fish there, the spot goes to the angler who has the right to that particular spot at that time.
Contents:
- Part 1: Cloudy Day Fishing
- Part 2: Cold Front Fishing
- Part 3: Muddy Water Fishing
- Part 4: "My Lure Went Out on Me"
- Part 5: Wind and Choppy Water: Negative or Positive?
