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Your retrieve is really important, as you need to have your rod tip pointed downward and using small rips or pops, moving the bait in an erratic action mimicking the look of a fleeing baitfish

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In that case youll likely find mats of floating vegetation pushed together

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Good anglers will learn to combat it, while other anglers will consider it to be just another excuse for poor fishing

The way I look at it, Im better off being one of five fishing the bank as opposed to one of a hundred competing for water offshore, especially knowing that a decent number of bass stay shallow year round