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I have far beyond fun: Nailing 'head for the hills trout'; trolling my tubeflies at what seems to be a speed (4-8-9mph.)that others often either flat out don't believe, or they just are not set up properly and therefore never even try it. Maybe I need to research and write a book on the whole "D.N.A." of high speed light line trolling for trout that attack like the proverbial "marlin hitting a tuna". Every once in a while I see or hear someone who is on the right track and they almost get into the "zone" then they stray off track and fall right back into the normal "old school" ways. I guess maybe life these days doesn't afford people the where-with-all to develop a constitutional commitment to fighting fish from the inferno on 4-6lb. fluorocarbon. Or the rest of you that fish my "style", are keeping a little on the quiet side. I have a ton of tactical info on my website, and I offer full meal deal set-ups right out of my personal tacklebox if you will. There is no piece of info that I'm not willing to share, Let's Troll....Chuck Barnes
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Hello Chuck,
The new site looks great and is loaded with great info. I have heard nothing but great things about your products but have yet to give them a try. I recently moved to Colorado and am looking forward to takeing a run at some of the great trout fishing.
How about a mini seminar right here on the boards. What do you suggest as a "Colorado trout meal deal set up" and how do you reccomend fishing it?
I'll post pictures when it pans out (parden the pun).
P.S. Chuck, Thank you for your advertising support at BigFishTackle.Com
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Hey Mike, just heard about the move from Dave. What promted it?
Chuck, that is quite an interesting tactic. Sometimes it takes something absurd to get things working. As Albert Einstein said, "If at first an idea isn't absurd, then there is no hope for it." And you've proven him right with your fast trolling tactics. Maybe that's what we did wrong while trolling for Northerns a couple months ago.
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Hi Mike.
I would expect my general trolling tactics to be productive in larger bodies of water (Reservoirs,etc.) or deep smaller lakes with enough room to manuver without disturbing other fisherman. It's hard to do my thing (I don't) on crowded water. On larger streams/rivers I would likely go with the flyrod and a type III or IV full uniform sink line and let the H.A.L. 9000 Leech work it's magic if the local experts tactics fail first. With this line and a Hal on it casting would be awful, so use deployment plan 'B'. Just position above the hole you want to probe and slip it back letting the current take out more and more as you pay out line a little at a time. But always go with the local expert advice first especially since I have never had a chance to fish in Colorado.
I am glad you've heard good things about my site/xflyz and the mini e-seminar would be an easy thing to do and really exciting especially when I describe what it's like to go to battlestations after a trout ambush on an xfly and 4lb. fluorocarbon. I have about 198 xflyz out in fisherman/woman hands and a few of them may be applying my tactics. I am eager to hear what I have to adjust instruction wise so as to actually translate my method and success to others. You really have to be organized, dialed-in, and prepared. I'm over the top with laminated checklists for different fishing senarios so we don't waste any time going back for anything, gain every tactical advantage.
It's all completely ridiculous, no one else should try this at home. My video, ridiculous but alot of fun anyway.
As far as feed back is concerned this forum world is practically the only place I get actual feedback from other than face to face or on the phone or by third party. People on the other end (with our lures) often don't understand how much we all want to hear a report. Any report. We find out months later "Oh, yeah worked great, caught the only fish caught on one of your lures." That's one of those things I guess. Boy my website side banner ad looks great to me. The rest of you members or whoever should look into a side banner ad here on BFT if you have a website and it's way under $20.00 I get most of my webtraffic from BFT, I'm fairly certain. I'll cut myself off now, Chuck.
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