If you've read Ronnie's version of our 4 days fishing together, you should get the impression it was a pretty good few days. Anytime you can get a friend and fish together is a good time. 

Of course, in the 4 days of fishing, I zeroed 2 days, caught 4, and missed two very nice fish. Like many fisherman, I'm better as a "Monday morning quarterback" and telling you what I should have done than doing it at the time.

After fishing for about a year now, I'm convinced I know enough about fishing to be dangerous. A little knowledge is a scary thought. But let me tell you some observations I made during this trip and how you can use it to your advantage.

The next ingredient was comments made by Lip Jerker in chat that he caught two 7 pound bass on a jig in 45 - 50 degree water. He said they were on the rocks and would be moving to wood in 50 + degree water. The third ingredient came Sunday night when we cleaned some bass for dinner on Tuesday. I asked Ronnie to cut open the stomach of the 2 pounder he caught and we found parts of 4 crawfish.

Okay, so now you know the ingredients 

Places not patterns
Bass move from rocks to wood as water warms
Bass were dining on crawfish