This photo taken by Andy Crawford frames the previous situation around Quentin Cappo. In the background was Chris Zaldain, and behind him was an unidentified angler. All of them were casting toward a windblown point.
The switch hasn’t flipped on, yet. But it will, and thus the reason why all of them were hanging around. Cappo didn’t because he doesn’t need to hang it all on this one spot. Yesterday, he dialed into a rotation pattern of ideal areas.
This screenshot taken by Andy Crawford shows what is going on at the moment. Here, you see the screen of the Garmin Panoptics LiveScope aboard his camera boat. In the photo below, you see a ball of gizzard shad, and behind it, a line of shad following them.
“Bait is everywhere around us, and so are the bass,” he said.
“Timing is everything,” Cappo told me yesterday.
The “timing” is all about the weather, and specifically, the wind direction. He keeps it to his back, with the wind sweeping across shallow points, across flats and islands.
Combined, the wind-blown current pushes bait and bass to the same concentrated areas. The baitfish are most vulnerable on top of the shallowest spots, where they are ambushed by the bass. And thus, the reason why Cappo is casting a squarebill crankbait into that strike zone.
Yesterday, Cappo left fish biting, so he’s not at all concerned about not repeating his stellar performance. It’s just all about the timing, and eventually he expects it to line up in his favor.
