Sometimes watching other animal behavior will lead you to the bass. Follow these animals to give you some clues to catch more on your next fishing trip!
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I was born and raised in Chicago, but after working 12 years in the financial Industry regulating the futures and options markets at the CME/CBOT I decided to pursue my passion fishing professional tournaments and left my full time corporate job. At that point, I moved to Junction City, WI with my wife Sara and two boys Hank and Duke. I’ve been fishing professionally since 2011 and full-time since 2015. I’ve qualified for seven MLF Championships and won over a half million in tournament winnings at the professional level.
Great info again Matt 👍 I couldn’t get to the Chowan until Saturday and I missed my chance to meet you,and I believe that BPT will definitely be coming back. I got to hang out with your powerhouse partners Matt Becker and Drew”8,000,000stumps”Gill so, I’m saying you and Spencer will be rounding the turn to your championship round soon🍀🎣🍀💯 once they announce the Chowan again come on down and prefish🤷🏻♂️😜
As I thought about this, more came to mind. If fishing bass in the shallows and I see a big snapper, I move down the shore a bit. If I can hear the bluegill sucking bugs off the bottom of lily pads I throw a frog where it has orange or yellow or blue on bottom and I cut the legs short so it’s more bluegill looking. Always watch for Osprey.
Did you know there is no such thing as a seagull? It’s a slang term for a type of bird, gulls. Look in a bird book. Always look for feeding birds. In MN when the lilacs bloom the crappie are spawning.
If you see a bear standing in the current. 😉 Thanks, Matt. I will walk the bank casting a sinking bait and if frogs start jumping in the water I'll circle back with topwater
When the cows are on two legs square dancing or doing the mambo, I do not go fishing. I go home and hide under the bed…
I know they don't bother the fish, but I've never caught a fish when there are beavers swimming around
Dogwood trees
Turtles on log equals bass in the cove. Most 12 year olds know this
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A few months ago I witnessed a warfare between gulls and loons in a cove I was fishing. There were no baitfish involved. The loons were on the water and diving under the water and the gulls were diving on the loons from the air. Craziest thing I have ever seen. I quickly moved over to the activity thinking bass were pushing bait to the surface and there were no baitfish and even worse, no bass. It was just a skirmish between the birds. I could tell that from my FFS.
It's great until seagulls start dive bombing your lures to the point you can't even fish
Good video Matt, I've also heard if the cows are up grazing, the fish be biting 🎣🙂
I used to fish with an old guy that said if the cows were laying down on the way to the lake the fish we’re going to be inactive and we had to fish slow moving baits and vice versa
I've always been told if the Cows are up and grazing on your way to the lake the bite is going to be good, if they are laying down and not grazing the bite is going to be tough.
A Matt Stefan sighting?😅
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When I was a kid I always heard that when the cows where laying down fishing was good.
Bald eagles, cormarants and osprey. Wild animals in general don't have time or energy to waste. Otters excepted. I was flipping a Texas rig along overhanging spruce and cedar limbs when a blue heron busted out 10 feet away and almost knocked me out off the boat. It was tucked under the limbs in an ambush spot. The cormarant around here are a real nuisance.
A number of years ago, the Iowa dnr put 6 river otters in our home lake of 650 acres. And once was abundant beaver huts in the banks looked as there was a back hoe digging them up, and the beaver were gone in a matter of one year, also I noticed a huge number of 3 to 5 lb bass that had their sides raked to open wounds and a alarming number of large bass carcasses up on the bank. Now it's been 5 years latter there are 3 new large beaver huts. And the otters are gone and have been for two or 3 years now.
Never heard that one about snakes!! From ow on when I see a snake a throw behind him and see if anything is following!! Stay Safe & God Bless!!! 🤠👍
i avoid the areas where creatures like the Buckeye Navy are around. 🤣🤣🤣
They show up on those big holiday weekends and all through the summer.
I'm here in PSL FLORIDA.. Speaking of snakes… Around the end of summer beginning of fall. Red color water snakes are seen swimming all over the canal area… Not many other color snakes
But i use red color soft plastics. Man i have a feild day..
Carp are another one to avoid if you see them in shallow water. They stir up so much mud it seems to push the bass out
Otters turn fish off for sure I was almost every cadt to shut down. Otter was showing off for 30 minutes. Egrets are awesome bait indicators.
My favorite creature to look for is, humans with electronics. Because I don’t run any electronics on my kayak😊
Good video Matt 🤛
How did you do on the chowan
I fish at night a lot,raccoons movement,owls hooting,movement in woods.
How did you do at chowan??