Key To Success

Occasionally I will be doing a part called Key To Success, which will focus on using the technology that is available to succeed on the water.  Obviously the technological advances in fishing over the years have been amazing but for some they are still hard to grasp.  Fishing professionally requires you to be at the top of your game all the time and part of being at the top of your game is utilizing the technology available to your advantage.

Recently while fishing Leech Lake I established a pattern for finding big fish that would bite.  The big fish were staging on the deep sand breaks and then feeding on the many inside turns on these deep sand breaks.  After figuring out a pattern where the fish were holding I was able to use my LakeMaster Contour Pro PC Mapping Software and look for other spots that looked like the area I was finding fish.  Pictured above is a typical deep sand break on Leech with an arrow showing an inside turn that held fish during the tournament.  By utilizing the Contour Pro Software on my lap top computer I found 8 spots that were producing big fish prior to the tournament.

The LakeMaster Contour Pro software has over 235 lake maps from many of the popular lakes across Minnesota ( I have the MN version, other states are available).  Many of the lakes are mapped with 1ft contours.  Because this is a computer program you are able to zoom in and print maps of those spot on the spot areas you want to try complete with the GPS coordinates for that spot.

If you have not looked at Contour Software for your state I suggest you check out www.lakemap.com  I could not do what I do without an accurate make and LakeMaster does it best.  Utilizing LakeMasters PC Mapping Software is definitely a Key to Success for me and helped me with my top 10 finish on Leech Lake.