IT’S EARLY SPRING, and while the water temperature is still too cool for actual spawning, you think you’ve found an ideal holding area. It’s a transition zone where chunk rock and boulders change abruptly to sand along the bank, and to top it off, several long laydowns extend out from the shore into depths of 5 or 6 feet.
You can’t pass it up, so you pick up a rod and start to make a cast.
If you’re 2022 Bassmaster Rookie of the Year Jay Przekurat, your lure choice will be a small squarebill, and you might make 20 casts to each of those laydowns, working them from every conceivable angle. Przekurat has been in places just like this so often that he knows his biggest largemouth of the day might not hit until that 20th cast, but he’s also just as confident that there are some bass on those laydowns, so he doesn’t mind making repeated casts.
“That summarizes early spring fishing,” says the Wisconsin native whose ROY title this past 2022 Elite season was anchored by an Elite Series victory
