27 minutes ago, Choporoz said:

The article adds a lot more context, but doesn't lead me to conclude that there's anything 'low percentage' about fishing laydowns.  I can locate a laydown with a high degree of certainty -- a moving school of actively feeding bass....probably not as easily unless they're busting the surface.  I don't really care, I don't think, if a bass in a laydown hits my jig because it simply reacts rather than because it's hungry. 

    The bass behavior article adds another piece to understanding what it is we're tying to do -- but, if I read that and approach laydowns as just hotels for neutral or resting fish, I'm likely going to be less successful.

Preach it brotha?

1 hour ago, BassNJake said:

Nice catch!! How do you know it didnt just pull up when you did?

  I doubt it just pulled in.  Prespawn, caught another over 6 from the same laydown.  I truly think it was presentation (jig) was better, and properly working the tree from the crown into the main limb joints. 

I like to cast parallel to the tree trunk.  I'll fish up and down both sides and then let the bait sink down and drag it along the bottom of the trunk.

Some good stories passed along earlier about catching nice bass after really working a lay-down.

 

I got a chuckle, made me think that bass waiting THAT long to strike out are just following the Biblical tutoring, Matthew 18:22, you know, "How many times shall I forgive my brother who sins against me." The answer was not seven times but seventy seven times.

 

So, bass will put up with you slapping that worm or spinnerbait in their faces . . . until they won't.

 

Brad

I’ll be pitching to some lay downs later today, to me that is what bass fishing is about.

On 5/7/2018 at 12:07 PM, Choporoz said:

The article adds a lot more context, but doesn't lead me to conclude that there's anything 'low percentage' about fishing laydowns.  I can locate a laydown with a high degree of certainty -- a moving school of actively feeding bass....probably not as easily unless they're busting the surface.  I don't really care, I don't think, if a bass in a laydown hits my jig because it simply reacts rather than because it's hungry. 

    The bass behavior article adds another piece to understanding what it is we're tying to do -- but, if I read that and approach laydowns as just hotels for neutral or resting fish, I'm likely going to be less successful.

Im with you on this one. I view the laydowns as hotel's and what ever I am throwing into their room, should be considered room service