Started watching Dons videos a few weeks ago. I’ve been fishing for over 35 years and never did any fishing deeper than 10 ft. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge and I will put your information to my test shortly
Wow--these videos are just so good. The man is a born teacher. The kind of guy you wish was your uncle growing up... Would have been a lot better fisherman is he was...
lol....now I have homework to do!! Thanks for doing these videos. As a relatively younger angler who missed out on a lot of the early structure fishing theory, it is quite edifying to hear this all in such detail.
Great stuff. The simplistic nature of the sample map was very helpful in explaining the reservoir study from the prior video. Thank you very much for taking so much of your time to put these videos on RUclips.
Excellent info! I like that you chose a couple of local lakes for us to study. I've been on Bald Eagle a few times with no luck. I haven't tried White Bear because it is always so dang busy. I'm going out with my father tomorrow to a lake called West Rush. I'm seeing some good structure out there including a couple of humps with a saddle in between them. If my thinking is correct, the fish will use that saddle to travel all around those humps, kind of like an X marks the spot situation. I guess time will tell. Thanks again, sir!
Don great lecture HOWEVER, it would be so helpful to us who struggle if you could add to your lectures EXACTLY how you would troll ALL these stuctures you show us in your lectures. I believe the mechanics of fishing structure is automatic to you and not some much for us.WE STRUGGLE ON THE WATER ....a lot. A lot of the lectures and teachings are on INTREPRETATION but I thiink it is assumed we all know how to ACTUALLY MECHANICALLY troll these structures correctly. If you could add to your lecture something like...."Now that we have interpteted this structure (bar) this is how you fish it. You contour troll the 500, 400, and 250 and then make straight line passes on the bar with the 200 and 100 . Then you mark the breaklines with markers then you straIghtline troll the breaklines looking for fingers, breaks, ect." In essence it is YOU WOULD DO EXACTLY to troll these structure you present to us from START TO FINISH. This would tie it all together.. If you can't get it right on the water then you are only a "paper spoonplugger" and you fail and then you quit which is no good for the future of spoonplugging. Thanks for you time and commitment to spoonplugging and coming out of retirement. Just don't forget we need teaching on the HOW to fish the structures EXACTLTY too. I limit out (on paper) every time I successfully interpret these structures you present. It is on the water that it counts though! So don't forget the HOW Don. Thanks again for your dedication to spoonplugging.
If fish won't cross a flat, explain winnebago in Wisconsin. Most of the summer and winter the best fishing is fishing the basin mud flats either trolling or hole hopping through the ice. No structural elements within miles but yet schools of white bass and walleyes call the mud flats home 90 percent of the year?
Don, been following the videos but there's one thing that i haven't heard you talk about. Thermocline. Lots of our natural lakes are void of oxygen below a certain depth. I know you've been preaching deep water but doesn't the thermocline play a big factor to how deep these fish go?
So if the structure must go all the way from the deep to theSHALLOWS for BASS to use them why should we even consider fishing deep saddles? Wouln't deep saddles be like deep humps and the bass wouldn't use them because they dont lead ALL THE WAY to the shallows? Confusing to me unless this rule doesnt apply to fish other than bass.
This is a message for Rick Bunce - it looks like you replied to my comment below. I don't see where it is and I don't see how to respond to it. Come over to my page and see if you can respond there. I'm looking forward to hearing from you.
Started watching Dons videos a few weeks ago. I’ve been fishing for over 35 years and never did any fishing deeper than 10 ft. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge and I will put your information to my test shortly
Don that presentation was pure Gold. Thank you and your wife for all your effort.
Wow--these videos are just so good. The man is a born teacher. The kind of guy you wish was your uncle growing up... Would have been a lot better fisherman is he was...
lol....now I have homework to do!! Thanks for doing these videos. As a relatively younger angler who missed out on a lot of the early structure fishing theory, it is quite edifying to hear this all in such detail.
Great stuff. The simplistic nature of the sample map was very helpful in explaining the reservoir study from the prior video. Thank you very much for taking so much of your time to put these videos on RUclips.
Thanks Don, terrifically informative.
Excellent info! I like that you chose a couple of local lakes for us to study. I've been on Bald Eagle a few times with no luck. I haven't tried White Bear because it is always so dang busy. I'm going out with my father tomorrow to a lake called West Rush. I'm seeing some good structure out there including a couple of humps with a saddle in between them. If my thinking is correct, the fish will use that saddle to travel all around those humps, kind of like an X marks the spot situation. I guess time will tell. Thanks again, sir!
Tks Don u always teach me something new
Nice editing along with the information Don. Yehaa from East Ky
Don great lecture HOWEVER, it would be so helpful to us who struggle if you could add to your lectures EXACTLY how you would troll ALL these stuctures you show us in your lectures. I believe the mechanics of fishing structure is automatic to you and not some much for us.WE STRUGGLE ON THE WATER ....a lot. A lot of the lectures and teachings are on INTREPRETATION but I thiink it is assumed we all know how to ACTUALLY MECHANICALLY troll these structures correctly. If you could add to your lecture something like...."Now that we have interpteted this structure (bar) this is how you fish it. You contour troll the 500, 400, and 250 and then make straight line passes on the bar with the 200 and 100 . Then you mark the breaklines with markers then you straIghtline troll the breaklines looking for fingers, breaks, ect." In essence it is YOU WOULD DO EXACTLY to troll these structure you present to us from START TO FINISH. This would tie it all together.. If you can't get it right on the water then you are only a "paper spoonplugger" and you fail and then you quit which is no good for the future of spoonplugging. Thanks for you time and commitment to spoonplugging and coming out of retirement. Just don't forget we need teaching on the HOW to fish the structures EXACTLTY too. I limit out (on paper) every time I successfully interpret these structures you present. It is on the water that it counts though! So don't forget the HOW Don. Thanks again for your dedication to spoonplugging.
thanks Ali and Don
Can’t wait to check my homework!
If fish won't cross a flat, explain winnebago in Wisconsin. Most of the summer and winter the best fishing is fishing the basin mud flats either trolling or hole hopping through the ice. No structural elements within miles but yet schools of white bass and walleyes call the mud flats home 90 percent of the year?
Don, been following the videos but there's one thing that i haven't heard you talk about. Thermocline. Lots of our natural lakes are void of oxygen below a certain depth. I know you've been preaching deep water but doesn't the thermocline play a big factor to how deep these fish go?
So if the structure must go all the way from the deep to theSHALLOWS for BASS to use them why should we even consider fishing deep saddles? Wouln't deep saddles be like deep humps and the bass wouldn't use them because they dont lead ALL THE WAY to the shallows? Confusing to me unless this rule doesnt apply to fish other than bass.
This is a message for Rick Bunce - it looks like you replied to my comment below. I don't see where it is and I don't see how to respond to it. Come over to my page and see if you can respond there. I'm looking forward to hearing from you.