How to Find Fish Using 'Most Recent Information'
If you don’t know where the fish are you can’t catch them, right? I bet Edwin Evers would agree to that, as would Jason Christie, the top two finishers in the most recent Bassmasters Classic held on Grand Lake here in northeastern Oklahoma. Evers, the Classic winner from Talala, was quoted in published reports to have relied on insider family fishing knowledge of the lake to “cash his chips” on the final day of the tournament and come from behind to win after trailing several pounds behind Christie going into the final round. Christie as well was reported to have built his early two-day lead of the three-day event from family fishing knowledge of the old lake. Both are excellent bass fishermen, and might’ve won, or placed nearly as high as they did, without the benefit of MRI, what hunters and fishermen call the “most recent information.” My four-year old grandson, Brantley, has to at least be able to hold a rod in his hands (which he can), but once he does that, if I then say to...