On Wednesday I met Mike Morris at Highland Marina to get information for a bass articl on Lake West Point Bass Fishing. Mike is one of the very best club bass tournament fishermen in the state. He has been club fishing since 1974, just like I have, but he is much better. Over the years he has made the state federation team 21 times, more than anyone else in the state. In comparison, in the same number of years, I have made it five times.

Mike and I caught about 20 keepers that day, a day that was a cold front with wind and bluebird skies, some of the worst conditions to me. And he caught about 15 of them. He had a largemouth about four pounds and I had one about three, and we caught a lot of keeper spots, too. And the hybrids hit our crankbaits in many of the places we fished.

It always amazes me when I watch really good fisherman doing exactly the same thing I do, fishing the same way, and catching more fish than I can. We ran a simple patter, fishing rocky secondary points in creeks, and caught fish on several of the ten spots we marked for the map.

Less than two weeks ago in the Sportsman Club tournament that is the pattern I fished, it is a pretty standard way to catch fish this year. But in that tournament I managed to catch exactly three fish in eight hours.

Check out the articles in the magazines and choose what species you want to catch from now through April. Go for crappie or bass, you can’t go wrong with either.