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Post by choochoo on Dec 14, 2016 20:11:30 GMT -5
I'm seeing that folks are starting to struggle catching bait due to the bait being deep. My question is has anybody tried catching bait with sabiki rigs? I've seen them work for catching alewives at depths a net would never reach. Not sure how this technique would work for shad, or during winter.
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Post by gofish2 on Dec 18, 2016 22:08:24 GMT -5
Has anyone on the SML forums try this?
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Post by quackquackboom on Dec 18, 2016 22:20:57 GMT -5
You should be able to do a forum search on that. I know I've seen it pop up once or twice. Can't remember what was discussed. Want to say it was not very effective for alewives and didn't work at all for shad.
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Post by striperjohn on Dec 19, 2016 6:08:09 GMT -5
They work on the bluebacks and ales pretty good if you can find a big enough school of them and the bluebacks seem to stay alive a bit longer than the alewives. But sticking and alewive even in the mouth seem to make them slow down a bit just like a bigger hook. Learn to throw a cast net, it's really not a hard as you might believe and it makes it worthwhile when you cast your first one and done.
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Post by mwardncsu on Dec 19, 2016 9:35:10 GMT -5
I'm with John on this.... I've tried a sabiki a few times under the dock like before a few years ago before we had as many bluebacks running around and I snagged a few alewives not not sure any actually ate the hook. Nothing on gizzards as gizzards are not "carnivores" that would be going after bugs or smaller fish - they eat plant matter. If you're planning on keeping ales or bluebacks for long storage than a sabiki rig may be better for them when used with a dehooker as you don't knock the scales off as bad and such - but for fishing that day / the next day, toss the net and go fishing!
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Post by choochoo on Dec 19, 2016 18:06:40 GMT -5
The first time I saw sabikis in action was on Cherokee Lake in the middle of a July day. A man and his two sons sat in about 40 feet of water and loaded the tank in short time with alewives. A friend of mine who has shoulder trouble and struggles with a net at times has had good success under dock lights at night in 20 plus feet of water, again on Cherokee. I think the key here is that just like other fishing, they gotta be biting. Hard to fish a phytoplankton bite when there's no active phytoplankton. Hard to beat a net when the catching is good, but sabikis may be a good thing to have in the arsenal. I know it keeps the boat cleaner!
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