One pattern the field would like to see next week at the Pickwick Bassmaster Elite Series is pre-spawn fish up in the flooded bushes. That makes for some of the best fishing of the year and it's when the flippers can really bring the hurt.
But according to Mark Davis, that probably won't be the case.
"Pickwick's definitely going to be pre-spawn, but the TVA prediction is the lake right now is 2 feet above summer pool, but they're supposed to drop it to 3 feet below summer pool," Davis said. "So we could see it drop substantially during practice and it might be the first day of the tournament before it even stabilizes. So I think it's going to be a tournament where a guy isn't going to be able to find them in practice, then catch them there in the tournament. The guy who wins is going to be the one who finds them during the tournament."
Davis added: "I could be wrong – it's just a prediction – but I like that type of event, where you have to think on your feet and figure it out each day and adapt."
> Davis, a post-spawn specialist, finished 16th last year at Pickwick when the lake fished to his strengths.
