09-06-2019, 03:56 PM
Sounds like a lot of fun on light tackle. I'm glad you got the one!
Are you moving your baits around after you cast, or are you set up to slow drag or drift baits? I was out at the Island in late Aug last year or the year before. (time is beginning to run together for me[
]) and saw something interesting. I was fishing the east side dragging baits about half to one mph and while I was there a boat came and anchored just off the north end. I didn't see him all the time, but often I was w/in 100 yards or so of his spot.
It was a typical day for back then and I boated 8 cats and had about the same number of not so serious inquiries. When I got back to the ramp that guy was there loading up his boat. Trying to be friendly, I asked how he did. "Not even a bite" he grumbled. "Did you get any?" This was a time I was tempted to lie, but decided not to. I told him how I had done and he scoffed and almost called me a liar. We were both using same baits, shrimp and/or WB.
I've thought about that several times and watched the comparison in other locations. I think during hot summer days the cats don't move around a lot and won't work hard to find grub. If the bait is stationary, they only take it if it happens to settle right next to them. But, if it comes slowly bouncing along their direction and almost hits them in the nose, they will take a shot at it as it goes by.
Makes me think of a scene from the old "Hee Haw" show. Two guys were laying on their sides with a plant stalk in their mouth and facing opposite directions. One says to the other: "There shore is a purty girl over here!" The other one never moves and says: "I shore wish I's turned that way!"
Sometimes cats seem to want things to come to them.
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Are you moving your baits around after you cast, or are you set up to slow drag or drift baits? I was out at the Island in late Aug last year or the year before. (time is beginning to run together for me[
]) and saw something interesting. I was fishing the east side dragging baits about half to one mph and while I was there a boat came and anchored just off the north end. I didn't see him all the time, but often I was w/in 100 yards or so of his spot. It was a typical day for back then and I boated 8 cats and had about the same number of not so serious inquiries. When I got back to the ramp that guy was there loading up his boat. Trying to be friendly, I asked how he did. "Not even a bite" he grumbled. "Did you get any?" This was a time I was tempted to lie, but decided not to. I told him how I had done and he scoffed and almost called me a liar. We were both using same baits, shrimp and/or WB.
I've thought about that several times and watched the comparison in other locations. I think during hot summer days the cats don't move around a lot and won't work hard to find grub. If the bait is stationary, they only take it if it happens to settle right next to them. But, if it comes slowly bouncing along their direction and almost hits them in the nose, they will take a shot at it as it goes by.
Makes me think of a scene from the old "Hee Haw" show. Two guys were laying on their sides with a plant stalk in their mouth and facing opposite directions. One says to the other: "There shore is a purty girl over here!" The other one never moves and says: "I shore wish I's turned that way!"
Sometimes cats seem to want things to come to them.
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