Pre Fishing as a Co-Angler

[Skid]

As a Co-Angler in most tournament trails, the boater has all rights to fish where he or she wants. To better your chances of fishing where you have found fish. Find your fish close to the ramp. Odds have it, you end up fishing close to the ramp towards the end of the tournament. If you can find some decent fish just suggest to the boater what you have found and maybe they will put you on them.

Thanks
James

[pretjah]

As a Co-Angler in most tournament trails, the boater has all rights to fish where he or she wants. To better your chances of fishing where you have found fish. Find your fish close to the ramp. Odds have it, you end up fishing close to the ramp towards the end of the tournament. If you can find some decent fish just suggest to the boater what you have found and maybe they will put you on them.

Thanks
James

some of the larger tournament trails are making it illegal for the co-angler to give any location advice.  better check with the rules of that tournament trail first. 

[Skid]

Thanks Pretjah,
I should of mentioned that. I fish the FLW/BFL series and I'm pretty sure I can. I'm going to call them later today to confirm that. They even have an article posted on their site about this very subject. But you are right. When you fish at the pro level you can't say a word   Thanks again for catching that. Sure wouldn't want to steer someone the wrong way. Best bet is always read the rules before you enter a tournament.

T.Y.
James

[Benthook120]

Before becoming a boater, I fished as a co-angler for a long while also. As you said its good to be familiar with the rules. Some tourneys forbid fishing at the ramp also. My stradagy has always been to fish differently from the boater. He throws a spinnerbait, I'll throw a crankbait or swim a jig, etc, etc. I've caught plenty of fish behind the boater with soft plastics and topwaters with a slower and smaller presentations. One thing I key in on is whether or not he's on fish by the way he's fishing. If he's throwing finesse slow bottom baits at a snails pace, good bet we're on fish in that general area. If he's got twenty rods on deck burnin spinnerbaits, and "search baits" at 100mph down the bank, then I know we're in for a long tournament and I can adjust my presentations accordingly. Just my thought.