Running and gunning

[Dan the fisherman]

Who else on this forum runs and guns?  I do it year round for bass, whites, crappie and striper.  Does anyone else employ the same tactic?  

[M_Taylor]

Maybe no else does....

I have tried that style but feel more confident and have more success fishing slow. That being said, if I have a pattern that is working, I have no problem working fast in between. For example, I was at LOZ a couple weeks ago and found every bass near the main lake docks, specifically on the points. So I'd power up the big motor every time I was done with a point and run to the next one. But I slow down once I'm at my destination. 

[Flysmallie]

I've done it in the past and been very successful at it. But just like everything else it doesn't work all the time. Plus to do it correctly and increase it's potential there is a bunch of planning that needs to be involved. Back when I fished tournaments there were times when I could tell you before the start of the tournament where I would be at any given time of the day. And how long I would be there. Sometimes that worked out and I cashed a check, other times it was like a bad dream. 

[Dan the fisherman]

I just rarely zero on beaver doing this, it just hard for me to fish a spot longer than a hour and not get bit.  I've always felt beaver being a conditions lake, if one spot isn't producing another will because of better conditions.  Just my opinion though. 

[nomolites]

Yes, I run and gun until I find active fish, then again to like spots looking for more active fish if the bite slows.  For stripers and walleye I tend to work the water column more thoroughly before moving on while in search mode and instead of hitting 20 spots in a day I may only see a half dozen.

Mike

[Dan the fisherman]

3 hours ago, nomolites said:

Yes, I run and gun until I find active fish, then again to like spots looking for more active fish if the bite slows.  For stripers and walleye I tend to work the water column more thoroughly before moving on while in search mode and instead of hitting 20 spots in a day I may only see a half dozen.

Mike

Nice.  Pretty much goes the same for me. ??   

[Old plug]

Really on LOZ it is a waist of time and gas. Every good  bass fisherman I now on LOZ fishes throughly. Ive  seen much written about finding the parttern then just repeatng it. I have come to believe however that there might be several so called patterns on any given day. The people I know depend on things like time of year and natures elements to get them into the places the fish should be. They get that from learned experience. One guy know used to go so far as to record all the conditions every time out and refer to them religiously.  I have no idea if he still does that. But it must have helped since he won a National FLW title.. Only time I would have made  a long run to find fish was in the winter, Years ago we used to call that the Milk Run. If a fisherman knows  where there are rocky points with sun on them in the afternoon he might do very well running and gunning. He might be covering 40 miles or better in a couple of hours. He is going to need a fast boat burning a lot  of gas to do so. I will sit back and pick my conditions to fish.

[Dan the fisherman]

On December 6, 2016 at 8:51 PM, Old plug said:

Really on LOZ it is a waist of time and gas. Every good  bass fisherman I now on LOZ fishes throughly. Ive  seen much written about finding the parttern then just repeatng it. I have come to believe however that there might be several so called patterns on any given day. The people I know depend on things like time of year and natures elements to get them into the places the fish should be. They get that from learned experience. One guy know used to go so far as to record all the conditions every time out and refer to them religiously.  I have no idea if he still does that. But it must have helped since he won a National FLW title.. Only time I would have made  a long run to find fish was in the winter, Years ago we used to call that the Milk Run. If a fisherman knows  where there are rocky points with sun on them in the afternoon he might do very well running and gunning. He might be covering 40 miles or better in a couple of hours. He is going to need a fast boat burning a lot  of gas to do so. I will sit back and pick my conditions to fish.

Oh I'm definitely running water that produces for the season.  Not doing it blindly or anything. What's that old say 90% of fish in 10% of water?  That has some truth to it.  When I run and gun, I'm cover water that has produced in the past with similar conditions... I also keep a log of fishing.  I record water temp, air temp, where I fished, time of day and wind direction.  It's helped me a bunch.  

[Stump bumper]

Really depends on how cold it is, I don't follow Dan when it is below 40....when it gets cold I will wait for the fish to come to me.

[Guest]

I run & gun almost exclusivley. Any time the wind is blowing & they're biting treble hook moving baits. 

Last fall, the fish stayed shallow until I quit after christmas flood.

This year is totally opposite.