Weather still plays a factor during the early season.
If a cold front comes through it will slow things down. This puts some anglers into high anxiety because they think they re doing something wrong, just because they re not getting continuous action. In fact you may be doing everything right, it s just that the bite has gotten tougher because water is rising, cold fronts have rolled in, the fish are making a transition to deeper water, any number of reasons. If you do find yourself in a situation where a good bite has turned into no bite, making some simple modifications in your presentation will change your luck. Typically we find ourselves fishing shallow reefs, creek mouths, sand flats, shallow vegetation, and the downstream sides of dams when the early-season bite is going on.