Follow Those Breaklines!
✅ Some veteran smallmouth anglers have had successful outings turn even more successful employing the following procedure. When the school of bass stops hitting, the anglers pick up their anchors, turn on their depth finders and by following the breakline (drop-off) are able to find the entire school once again. In these instances the school had not returned to deeper water but merely moved further down along the breakline. The schools were large enough to be seen on the depth finder and therefore contact was made a second time.
✅ Normally we don't recommend using your depth finder to run around looking for schools of fish. It is wiser to locate good structure first. Don't worry, if indeed it is good structure the fish will use it. Once the shape of the structure is known and the fish have moved to it, it would be wise to check out the remaining area for any straggler fish before you go rushing off to another area.
Carl Malz
Fishing Facts
May 1973
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