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fishn

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I'm prefishing a tournament and found fish in two different areas. The problem is they're about 40mins apart. I know come tournament day I have to pick one area and by the time I'm finish with my first spot someone else is bound to fish my 2nd spot. I'm thinking about hooking those fish in my 2nd spot the day before the tournament. Do you guys think it's unsportsman like or a good strategy?

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CindyP Newbie

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Two things, on numerous occasions I've got the same fish on consecutive days. Some fish will continue to bite, others not so much. And what if someone other than you is fishing "your" spot and is busy sore mouthing them on the number one....you might want to run to the second one and be wishing you hadn't fished through them! Anyway, good luck and remember to have fun!

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matthothand Proficient

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I'd try to straight up out fish the field. Tough to look in the mirror every morning and tell yourself you're a winner if that's the only way you can place in the money. I've got an event on Sunday and I hope you didn't attempt to burn up my spots.

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TurnUpTheFishing Veteran

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This reminds me of a story in Bassmaster magazine a few years back. It was around spawn and during practice one angler went through bedding areas and caught bedding bass to make them extra cautious during the tournament. I dont remember how he ended up doing but it got people pretty worked up.

Id say leave the spot alone as a backup like most have said. You cant be too certain about your first spot if you are worried about people doing better in this area. Sounds like you have two good spots, go with your gut and hope you made the right move.

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Focus on spot one and go for it and fish hard. Its too easy to get caught up in trying to cover too much water/too many spots and wondering who is fishing where. In 40 miles of water there is more than likely spots just as good and/or better anyways. If things go south you make the run and hope for the best.

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pikestabber Mentor

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Focus on spot one and go for it and fish hard. Its too easy to get caught up in trying to cover too much water/too many spots and wondering who is fishing where. In 40 miles of water there is more than likely spots just as good and/or better anyways. If things go south you make the run and hope for the best.

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In fact, forget that other spot altogether. Think of the 40 minutes there and back...that's an hour and 20 minutes overall of tournament time lost to boating back and forth! Also, if you have two spots and one doesn't immediately produce, you will be tempted to leapfrog which can waste time and, if the hunch doesn't pay off, kill your tourney chances, too. When you focus on one spot and really fish it hard, and confidently, you will always produce better. I can't envision a body of water with two good spots 40 minutes apart and nothing good in-between. Try pre-fishing your preferred spot and expanding its range. There are fish in-between these two honey-holes and it may pay big dividends to find them before the gun shoots...

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Thank u guys for all the input. I guess the game plan is to fish area 1 hard and back up areas close by. As for hooking fish in area 2 I decided not to go that route and save time to find more areas.

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HawgMan Community Regular

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Personally, I wouldn't go into a tourney with only 2 spots!! Being 40 minutes away to your 2nd spot, there's got to be a few in between...

If you're serious, spend some more time on the water & find some back ups!!!

Common Sense.....><>

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swampbuck Rising Star

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So here is a another look at this fished the super slam on Leech lake today

Pre fished last week and we found a couple great spots that are "community" holes Everyone knows there there? Well we draw boat #2 have a 73mph boat that goes down last week our back up boat might run 62 on a good day, We could have "burned" the fish but that is [PoorWordUsage]!

We took off and one boat in front of us that we thought was goign there ( and we would have caught in the first 1/2 mile veered off we were worried about the other guys eating us up int he 10 miles to the spot but when we pulled in we had the whole bay ( which is BIG) to ourselves for an hour)

at the end of the day we weighed 23 1/2 lbs and won.

Morale dont think because you found then and figured out how to catchem that some else has!

If they did and beat you so be it.

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swampbuck Rising Star

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must have heard wrong, We did not fish in the bay.

Lots of fish there though we saw people catch a couple 3lbers off the dock Sat night. lot of teams were in there last few minutes and caught fish no big ones though.

unfortunatly there are lots of them there again as they dumped the fish off the docks!

We had a FUN day hands are beat up from culling lots of 3lbers!

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