You just have to have enough faith in your instincts to make it produce. One of the most important lessons Ferguson has learned from guiding at Okeechobee is that timing is crucial to success. Most of his clients fish with live shiners. They can be soaking bait for hours in an area known to hold bass and get nary a nibble. But when whatever forces in the cosmos put bass on the feed, everybody suddenly begins catching fish.
Timing is the key.
I'll make the effort to keep coming back to it again and again. If I hit it when the timing is right, I know it'll produce bass. This kind of persistence was crucial when Ferguson fished the BASS Masters Classic on the Louisiana Delta out of New Orleans. During practice, he had found a small canal filled with hyacinths, hydrilla and baitfish. It looked perfect.