For most bass fishermen, the rules for finding fish change during the cold water months. Because bass are not as active and don’t chase lures as much, it’s more difficult to determine if you’re even around fish, much less if you’re using the correct lure and presentation.

Brent Ehrler, winner of the 2006 FLW Forrest Wood Cup and a veteran Yamamoto Pro Staff member, uses an easy and efficient three-step approach to reading winter water that erases many of the questions about lethargic largemouths and puts the odds of finding them highly in his favor. It’s a system he’s developed over years of top level tournament competition across the United States, and it’s a system any angler can adapt to his own fishing style, regardless of where he fishes.

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It’s been a few weeks since the Forrest Wood Cup. Man, Ouachita was fishing tough. Getting five bites a day was a problem and that showed on day 3. Overall, it was a successful event making a top twenty, but I sure would like to win another one pretty soon.

I finally realize why everyone was telling me to sleep while I can before the baby arrived. He poops more than he eats and eats more than he sleeps. I am not complaining, I’m thrilled to be a father, it is just an observation for any of you thinking about becoming a parent in the near future. All my friends were right, get your sleep now. I never thought I would get more sleep at a tournament than I would at home. I think that might be the case.