moving down the bank at a pace to where you are not constantly off and on with it; because when you constantly keep engaging the speed of the trolling motor - that in itself will alert the fish. if you come in on the fish with just a steady hum by keeping the trolling motor running constantly, i don’t think that bothers them as much than turning it on and off does. So, what i try do is, i try to pick a bank that i am going to fish and if the wind, the current and stuff will allow me, i will go down the bank at a certain speed to where i never get off the trolling motor, i just keep moving at a very slow pace; but i keep moving at all times.
When you are flippin’ a jig, is there a certain depth you are targeting? No, i will try to catch ‘em out of 1-foot of water; i will try to catch ‘em out of 6-foot of water. i will try to shake the jig a little bit in place; if i drop it down on the bottom, i will pick it up and just try to wiggle it around a bit to put a little life into the bait and i will pull it off the bank a little ways and let it fall back down and do the same thing again. i repeat that three times, then i will pick up and make another initial flip from a foot to 5 or 6-feet. That’s what i’m trying to fish.
When you are flippin’ jigs, do you use pork or plastic? i use both. i prefer plastic when i have got multiple rods on the deck and i’m rotating back and forth between a worm or a Senko and a jig. That is when i
prefer plastic: because i don’t like my plastic to dry out. if i go out and i’ve only got one rod on the deck and all i’m going to do is flip and the water temperature is say 60-degrees or colder, i like to put a piece of pork on and stay with just one rod then.
Do you customize your pork in any way? Yah, a lot of times i will take the big chunk part of it and i will slice across; not through the rind, now. Slice through the fat a few times and that will make the pork a whole lot more flexible.
Any particular colors you prefer? Water dictates the color of anything you are going to do. if it’s dirty water, i would go with black and blue or black, as the water has a tendency to get a milk or creamy color, i like to go to brown, maybe brown and blue. The clearer it gets the lighter you go with a jig. When it gets so that you can see five or six feet down, go with your greens and lighter browns.
Issue 2
April 2012
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