08-11-2020, 01:44 PM
(08-11-2020, 04:41 AM)Jmorfish Wrote: Nice going Curtis -- good looking catch....When you're vertical jigging out of your boat, do you set up a portable fish finder, like for ice fishing, so you can watch fish and your presentation? or just use your boat's trolling fish finder?Just your regular boat fish finder works great Joe, you don't really need to see your jig to catch them, just make sure you are in a spot where the fish are moving through regularly. If you are seeing the big hoards of fish, like the pic above you are in the wrong stop, find a spot where smaller groups are coming through close to or on the bottom. When the fish quite coming through, we would move, usually not much, either down the shore line a little or as we noticed, as it got later in the morning, they were going out a little deeper. We started out catching them in 10 fow, we ended up over a couple hours of fishing, moving out into 13 FOW. We were still catching them when we left at noon but it was getting hot and the crowds were showing up. We were using spot lock to hold us in place but if you don't lave that I'm sure an anchor would work too. We were trying different methods to see what worked best but if we had started vertical jigging earlier in the morning, I bet we would have done even better.