you have a pattern that has put 15lbs a day in the boat. you like fishing these techniques, but it doesn't always get keepers in the the boat. sometimes they are only 2lbers and not 3. do you keep fishing the same hoping you run into a couple 3s or5s? at a certain time do you change tactics all together. I honestly don't know how to combat fishing pressure. so i learned a technique that will almost always put fish in the boat. between that and when i don't like the exact conditions and throw something else i am catching quite a feww fish in practice. my "always catchem" technique still gets bit, but most the time they are small. the biggest setback to me is time on the water, but i have spent many hours recently on the water figuring this out. tournament day is always different though.