what are some of your guys tournament patterns? Favorite things to fish in different situations?

Matt

pads/reeds early post spawn before the big ones move deep

Roadbeds pre&postspawn. Isolated humps in ten f.o.w. prespawn long secondary. Backwater points during spawn

grass, rip rap, points, marinas, road beds, channels, off shore structure, pre & post spawn. if i can flip & pitch all day and get a nice sack im happy. won a few tournys doin that when conditions were less than ideal for that type of fishin.

Right now its flipping grass mats and sight fishing, however, I can also pull out a few throwing spinnerbaits, frogs and even shallow cranks and chug bugs if the water has warmed enough to pull the shad up. Since you're asking about tournament patterns I'm going to hit a couple deeper hydrilla edges with shallow cranks and chug bugs to throw a few keepers in the well and then move on to either sight fishing or flipping mats depending on what my pre-fishing has shown to be the best pattern. If the lake I'm fishing has no suitable grass mats I'll be on some other form of structure holding females waiting to spawn or just coming off the beds.

After the bass spawn its all about the shad spawn until the water temps hit 80. The right spot can yield a solid limit in the first hour of daylight.

Once temps hit 80 the bass have moved out and depending on what lake you're fishing this can mean 100 different things.

As things cool down you get back into a shad spawn pattern, however, once the sun gets up they'll move back down.

During Winter...well...we don't have those down here in FL.