Importance of Practice ~ FLW CANADA 2018

The 2018 FLW Canada event is in the bag and other than receiving a big serving of “Humble Pie”, I also learned a lesson about the importance of practice. I hadn’t been on the lake in over 4 years and due to my prefishing schedule for the CSFL tournament series I decided to skip prefishing for the FLW event. I planned to use my past knowledge of the lake and the current fishing patterns I had observed from fishing events on the Kawartha & Muskoka lakes. Unfortunately that approach did not pan out very well. My failure to put in practice time meant I had to spend day 1 developing a pattern. Not a good approach for success. Not only did I waste tournament time finding fish, I also had the bad luck of running my motor over two rocks piles. Bottom line, my failure to put in the practice time meant I had to eat multiple servings of that “Humble Pie”. I guess the old saying “failing to plan is planning to fail” is very true. Lesson learned! Time to pack the boat, prep the gear and get out on Tri-Lakes to get some additional practice time in before tourney blast off!