The Bend In Fall Mike Haggerty

Well the Bend in transition at least. Finally, finally I am headed to east Texas once again for an event on Toledo Bend. The last time I fished here I had a terrible time just putting 5 fish in the boat. Guess what,...the lake was in transition then too. Joy. I DO realize that a lot of this anxiety going on for me right now is a mental thing and maybe some handle it better than others but...for me....it is hard to get previous bad experiences out of my melon and get a fresh outlook on a lake, add the fact that I am not the best angler when it comes to fish moving around quickly, I am not talking about moving around seasonally but more like daily or hourly even. I do relish the opportunity to refine my tactics in just such a situation and I have been practicing these scenarios here on Old Hickory. The weather has been swinging pretty much every day going from high skies and wind to all day rain and calm conditions just about every 18 to 24 hours. Results mixed lol, Old Hickory is Old Hickory period, hell I think the entire lake is in transition all the time. So the initial strategy going in is to pare out as much water as I can and really try and pick apart a specific region of the lake and follow those fish around day after day treating every day kinda like my first day at the lake, no expectations or memories as to where the fish were yesterday, just try and find a region with a big population and look at it with an open mind every morning. I know it sounds simple but I expect it to be more difficult than stated as I am really in the habit of building on a previous days work. Let's see how it goes.