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I’ve fished topwater and shallow spots suited for it in that area for years. This is part of my “long term success”. I’ve kept fishing reports to reference and have a good memory of what works, what doesn’t and when and where. I can apply that template to similar spots/conditions and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.
No, that isn’t something you can get right this minute. It just comes with time and is part of the reward applying the process of LTS and seeing your fishing trips not as individual events but as being a journey in becoming a better, more experienced angler.
For example, in my Delacroix/Pointe a la Hache reports from last month and January they were hitting a cork better than anything else. I tried a topwater and they just weren’t having it. Yesterday was opposite. Even both areas set up the same, the fish just behaved different. Same thing for Dularge in December.
But sometimes applying the template elsewhere does work.
This is one reason I punch out to new-to-me areas, rather than fish my alma mater over and over (Hopedale).
