piper
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Post by piper on Mar 27, 2015 13:36:12 GMT -5
Ok, so for the life of me Ive been trying to figure this out. I sit at on my porch in Craddocks and watch the boats scream in, toss 3 times. Scream to a new spot 15 feet down to toss 3 times and leave. Out on the water I experience worse in which they scream by me and pull up a few feet away only to toss a few times and leave. Can someone PLEASE enlighten me as to what they are doing or maybe I am missing or doing wrong. Nothing like having planers spread to be practically rocked out of my boat.
Rant off.
Oh , and to you in your nice Red and white triton with 225 hp motor. I see ya buddy. twice now he's come dangerously close to me up river.
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Eric
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Post by Eric on Mar 27, 2015 15:41:29 GMT -5
There is an old saying: "90% of fish are caught in 10% of the lake".
They are looking for that 10%, and always in a hurry to do so.
Many will spend more time running the lake, than actually fishing.
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Post by bigd7400 on Mar 27, 2015 18:31:31 GMT -5
Why have a glitter rocket if not to show it off...to everyone from hardy to pembroke
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johnr
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Post by johnr on Mar 27, 2015 19:01:21 GMT -5
Unless I am live baiting or anchoring, I run and gun just like you describe. When I do, I am using a trigger bait and looking for fish to chase it immediately. From there I will find out how to make them bite, but i need to see active or aggressive fish first. If i dont see them within a couple mins, I'm gone.
I also might be fishing a known pattern or specific structure that I've figured out. Once again, if they aren't ON at that spot, I'm out and onto the next similar spot.
More often than not i eventually locate the motherload and work them over.
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Brian
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Post by Brian on Mar 27, 2015 19:04:58 GMT -5
Thet do it because it's an extremely effective technique. I used to bass fish. The first few times on a new lake I'd catch just a few bass but each time I caught one I put a mark on my chart. After a while a bunch of hot spots would emerge and then I'd just fish those spots and skip all the unproductive water in between. Most of us do basically the same thing striper fishing but at much a slower pace because of how long it takes to put out a spread. Imagine if you could determine in a minute or two if the stripers in a known hot spot were in the mood to eat. You'd probably zip around the lake checking all your spots too
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Post by striperjohn on Mar 28, 2015 7:28:33 GMT -5
Brian you are right on. I go to Canada fishing every year (going on 36 this year) and we have friendly "bragging rights" tournaments among a bunch of friends. I have about 8 spots in this lake we go to where I know I can catch a decent largemouth, another few where the smallmouth hang out. In fact if you read Bassmaster magazine the two years that Skeet Reese won the bass tournament here on SML he said he ran both ends of the lake on two consecutive days to specific spots to catch smallies where he had caught them in practice. It is in fact a good tactic.
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