How to Time the Bite

WHENEVER BRANDON LESTER is having a slow day on the water, he fortifies himself with the belief that “they’re always biting somewhere, and all I have to do is find that ‘somewhere.’” Over his tournament career, the Bassmaster Elite Series pro has found that “somewhere” often enough to convince himself that being in the right place can be just a matter of correct timing.

“I absolutely believe bass have daily feeding times, feeding windows that open throughout the day,” emphasizes the Elite pro, “and what a fisherman has to do is learn to recognize when one of those windows opens. Although a feeding window might be lake-wide under certain weather conditions, more times than not that ‘somewhere’ I’m looking for will be a small group of fish in a specific place.”