09-26-2005, 06:46 PM
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We were trolling about 2.5 MPH GPS speed. I usually throw out 2 five gallon buckets to slow me down to 2.1 MPH but we were basically cruising around looking for fish on the finder and decided to throw the tube jigs out the back while we look for fish. We hooked up every 2-3 minutes doing that. It was fast enough action that I never got my pole out because I was too busy helping my 2 and 6 year olds land fish and trying to drive the boat. We pulled the jigs behind the boat the length of a good cast and then another 10-15 yards (so maybe 40 yards behind the boat I guess). I know the jigs were not running very deep because usually within a second or two after the fish got hooked you would see it boil the surface behind the boat. I would guess the jig was running less than 8 feet deep but we never had any prob keeping them below the surface. Also when one of the kids would hook up my dad would reel in to get out of the way and cast the other direction and reel in fast and irratic and caught lots of fish doing that. We also caught fish drifting quite slow (the anchor was down but too much wind) but not so slow that the jigs would hit the bottom. So I'm not sure speed really mattered. The fish were very agressive. I'm going back tomorrow. The forcast is for stormy so that means wind so we will prob troll or drift again tomorrow however I would really like to find a school and vert jig for them again.
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We were trolling about 2.5 MPH GPS speed. I usually throw out 2 five gallon buckets to slow me down to 2.1 MPH but we were basically cruising around looking for fish on the finder and decided to throw the tube jigs out the back while we look for fish. We hooked up every 2-3 minutes doing that. It was fast enough action that I never got my pole out because I was too busy helping my 2 and 6 year olds land fish and trying to drive the boat. We pulled the jigs behind the boat the length of a good cast and then another 10-15 yards (so maybe 40 yards behind the boat I guess). I know the jigs were not running very deep because usually within a second or two after the fish got hooked you would see it boil the surface behind the boat. I would guess the jig was running less than 8 feet deep but we never had any prob keeping them below the surface. Also when one of the kids would hook up my dad would reel in to get out of the way and cast the other direction and reel in fast and irratic and caught lots of fish doing that. We also caught fish drifting quite slow (the anchor was down but too much wind) but not so slow that the jigs would hit the bottom. So I'm not sure speed really mattered. The fish were very agressive. I'm going back tomorrow. The forcast is for stormy so that means wind so we will prob troll or drift again tomorrow however I would really like to find a school and vert jig for them again.
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