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Unfortunately the reality is the pros do fish multi day tournies.
I highly doubt their talks are only geared for these scenarios.

I see you are rated as a graduate of BassU.
If you use electronics I would use this to your advantage.
The Dean did a video on Forage...what bass eat.
I would study this.

1. understand bass movements
2. use google earth to find spots
3. understand what bass might eat in your body of water
4. understand weather and its effects on fish
5. time managment....you might be on a good spot but the fish
may not bite at the time you are fishing
6. sometimes practice might be best served marking with gps
rather than fishing.
7. sometimes junk fishing is your friend...have lots techniques ready when you approach diff scenarious as cruise a bank for example.
8. I personally avoid dock talk...let the fish tell you
9. Understand a few things like what i call exceptions
my rule of exceptions is there will be bass in what i call all 4 corners of the lake. This is important...to many times you catch a fish or two in practice and think thats gonna be the deal.
Are they the right fish?
If the body of water is unfamiliar to you...here is what i do
I use good mapping, google earth, past history of lake found online.
Understanding Bass Movements by Season and Exceptions:
1. I try to find areas where they would spawn in masses
2. I try to find the best winter haunts
3. Now i can play this movement of bass out with maps
i.e. from the deep to main lake points, secondary points onto spawn flats etc.
4.
I work a lake backwards .....
I do an educated guess on a spawning area
I then follow secondary points, main lake points etc on maps
to help me understand the routes bass take.
Knowing that Bass love to use river channels, roadbeds, creek channels, channel swings to migrate...in other words this is the under water highway system.
I start with winter. I know in Winter, Bass will try to pick the very best spots on a lake...they are cold lethargic. Ever wonder why
Bass can be fat in winter? cause they dont move they dont burn calories. Further proof they do not move much in winter. And we know they may not eat every day in winter. Also most cases
when find them in winter, it will be the motherload.
The Winter Mother Load might be determined on what is the size of structure they are holding to. So there maybe multiple
Mother Load spots.
All of this is typically done at home as research.
This two prong approach (estimating a spawning area and working it back to winter areas) helps narrow down the migration of bass. Then you still do your homework
you self check yourself in practice on water using maps on electronics and fish finder. Did the area i think was a spawning area or spawning flat have a hard bottom...check
Do the migration from spawn to winter...secondary points main lake points etc show road beds creek channels river channels
on my map...check . Now this will be one scenario i can work with come tourney day. Now i try to duplicate this so i have
another area to do the same homework.

If you believe your tourney will start post spawn but not summer. Use your skills and knowledge to work that out.
I.E. often the case the males stay close to nest, often females
move out little deeper to rest and feed up.

exceptions and there are many in bass fishing...come summer
many fish live deep but can feed shallow...its timing thing
and some fish almost always live shallow they just might burrow in heavy cover....weather or shade can make them reachable.

still post spawn.... if they spawn in creek arms
break the arm into thirds (1/3).
Did the females (typically bigger fish) make it out of creek
into main lake? break the creek down to mouth of creek to mid to spawn area. If beat bank and only catching fry guarders, see if you can spot fry. If see fry you might move tad away from nest area try deeper....no bites move more out of creek to try intercept those feeding females...eventually working your way to mouth of creek(main lake) if need be.

Summer....often fish spread out...this is why i believe alot folks
try to cover water picking fish off one by one along bank.

Very disappointed there is none or little on Small Mouth fishing! Over the years I have learnt to dislike large mouth fishing do to some of the culture that surrounds it! I challenge any of you avid large mouth fisherman to come fish the harder bass to catch up here in the great north! I wish you guys could get some of the Northern pros and Canadian pro to do some topics on Small Mouth!

I did that very search and didn't pull anything up weird but ty!