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How to Manage Time and Water in Tournament Situations

It’s tough to determine when you should leave fish to find fish, but staying on a good bite in tournaments requires you to do so. Matt Herren discusses how to manage the bass you’ve figured out. His rationale takes into account how quickly they can spook and become educated to your presentation as well as time of day considerations as it relates to bass activity level. A milk run of spots that fish differently at peak at different times is the ideal situation.