A Guide to Non-Typical Catfish Fishing Methodologies Part III.

Besides an appreciation of the contours on the base of the lake, being mobile and having the ability to read your fish locator are the keys. Essentially a Carolina Rig, I'm in possession of a hook with an 18-inch leader tied to your barrel swivel, which is hooked up to your most important line, which is where your egg sinker is attached. The important thing to recollect is to keep whatever plant you use in good shape. A lot of know all too well about the disasters that may be due to old line and incorrectly maintained fishing hardware and giant Blues will test everything from your knots to your rod holders.

Find the Giant Fish you want to understand how to notice the difference between bigger fish and bait fish whilst using your fish locator. Blue Moggies are creatures of edges and they appear to congregate on the brake lines of ledges and humps.

There are really few spots that I am going to stop and fish where I do not see either gigantic fish or bait fish on my locator. The ledges that I basically fish are old stream channels edges. The fish can be scattered up and down the edge but the best fishing happens when they are on the top. A little trick to using your marker buoys is to throw your marker upwind of where you are going to fish. If you drop the marker right on top of the fish, you'll be bumping it and will finally move it whilst the wind is pushing you around. This is a neat link all about deep sea fishing. If you throw it upwind of the fish, you can run your trolling motor right up to it without the wind pushing you over it. It's actually pretty easy : you cast out bait and drag it behind or from the side of your ship whilst the wind pushes you along. The enormous difference between most drifters and myself is that I sometimes don't drift in water any more shallow than thirty feet deep whilst most others like to fish much more shallow, for example 10-20 feet deep. The shallow waters of most lakes contain some huge fish and tons of small ones leading to heaps of action, but not so a lot of that will test your string. Folks drive by me and look in skepticism when they see me drifting in thirty to fifty ft of water, but when that fish locator shows giant fish marks on the bottom at those kind of depths I've a good idea of what's down there. Not all lakes are as straightforward to drift : some have gobs of timber and some have tons of rock on the bottom. In the hotter months the bite will typically happen on live shad. If you don't have a trolling motor you may use anchors, but it needs plenty of sessions of heaving up heavy anchors and can shortly kill the fun of ledge fishing.

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