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Post by 2013skiff on Jun 7, 2013 16:05:58 GMT -5
always my luck when I find the schools and time I get the bait out might catch one then there gone...how do you guys follow the schools and tell what direction there going or hang out in the same area and they will return?
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Post by thunderstick on Jun 7, 2013 19:44:06 GMT -5
I use my depth sounder. Easy to see a school, and bait balls, even on a cheap one. This is only if I cant visually see the shad or a disturbance on the water surface.. In my meager experience they usually drive bait into a cove, point or to the top of the water. They seem to move up shallow and back out deeper more than up and down a bank... if they were there and the bait balls are still there I stay for a while...they circle back a lot. If I get bored I put out 2 umbrella rigs, fire up the outboard and ride @ the area watching my sonar.... Thats my 2 cent, ain't been doin it but a couple years....
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Post by 2013skiff on Jun 7, 2013 23:45:49 GMT -5
thanks for the reply...no artificial for me...should I wait them out or how do folks know which way they move?
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Post by thunderstick on Jun 8, 2013 1:58:31 GMT -5
makes no difference, applies to bait or artificial.... but by the way, 2 weeks ago, in craddock creek, after 2 boats went by pullin live bait on planer boards, one of them a guide. After they got out of the way, I went right behind them with a thunderstick, casting. 2 in 10 min 1 12lb one 15lb. reaction bite, sometimes a fast moving thunderstick, or umbrella trolled @ 5mph makes um bite! Don't overlook it!!!
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