03-22-2010, 09:23 PM
[quote SportfishinSteve][#000080] I listened to advice from Cabelas and Sportsman's "experts" who don't seem to agree on jigs, presentations, jig weights, and line. I looked on the Gorge archives, but don't see any recent posts.[/#000080]
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[#000080]Can someone share their secret information for success? A PM would be very welcome.[/#000080]
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Here ya go. The "secret information" you request: Tube Jigs. Big ones, little ones, short ones, long ones, it doesn't matter. I carry them all. Color DOES NOT matter either at lake trout depths, so all I use is white and green (light and dark). Everything else is a shade of light or dark at depth.
One ounce is what I use.
I use 12 lb P-line mono. line. Sometimes straight line, but when guiding my customers we use 30 lb. braid with the same 12 lb. P-line for a leader. NOT Florocarbon--that stuff is the biggest hoax in the fishing industry in the last decade, if not ever.
Presentation--That one is ever ongoing, ever-changing, a spur of the second decision based on the fish's reaction to the lure at any particular second, and the part most people will never get in their lives. Some people, for whatever reason, will never, ever, ever make a good presentation. Others can pick it up in 5 hours, or 10, or a week, or a month, or a season. It just depends on how well you can control your body and mind together. Boat control helps a lot too.
Every way you can think of to present a jig vertically can, and will, and has, caught lots of large lake trout. It depends on the moment, and the season, and the person fishing, and the person controlling the boat, and a bunch of other factors I can't think of unless I'm actually out there fishing.
Just focus, forget the snacks, forget the scenery, forget the conversations, forget what the other boats are doing, forget everything going on around you and in your head except the task at hand, for as long as you can.
Jigging for lake trout is as easy as 1-2-3.
1. Find Fish--You can't catch 'em where they aint, and they ain't in most places! Find your own damn fish too!
2. See fish--Sonar! See what they do. Watch them. Learn from them. Get frustrated from them. They will "tell" you what they think by their actions and reactions.
3. Catch fish--Keep your jig in their face until one eats. When you get a bite, you might want to jerk on it, preferably around the same time as they bite it and still have the bait in their mouth. See above.
There's my annual Jigging post for 2010. Archives have the rest.
OH, and PS-If the so-called "experts at Cabelas and Sportsman's Warehouse were really "experts," they wouldn't have to be punching a cash register or asking every Tom, Dick, and Harry, "May I help you find something" at either of those places! Last I checked, there wasn't much fishing going on inside those walls. Selling, not fishing.
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[#000080]Can someone share their secret information for success? A PM would be very welcome.[/#000080]
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[#000080]Thanks.[/#000080]
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[#000080]Steve[/#000080][/quote]
Here ya go. The "secret information" you request: Tube Jigs. Big ones, little ones, short ones, long ones, it doesn't matter. I carry them all. Color DOES NOT matter either at lake trout depths, so all I use is white and green (light and dark). Everything else is a shade of light or dark at depth.
One ounce is what I use.
I use 12 lb P-line mono. line. Sometimes straight line, but when guiding my customers we use 30 lb. braid with the same 12 lb. P-line for a leader. NOT Florocarbon--that stuff is the biggest hoax in the fishing industry in the last decade, if not ever.
Presentation--That one is ever ongoing, ever-changing, a spur of the second decision based on the fish's reaction to the lure at any particular second, and the part most people will never get in their lives. Some people, for whatever reason, will never, ever, ever make a good presentation. Others can pick it up in 5 hours, or 10, or a week, or a month, or a season. It just depends on how well you can control your body and mind together. Boat control helps a lot too.
Every way you can think of to present a jig vertically can, and will, and has, caught lots of large lake trout. It depends on the moment, and the season, and the person fishing, and the person controlling the boat, and a bunch of other factors I can't think of unless I'm actually out there fishing.
Just focus, forget the snacks, forget the scenery, forget the conversations, forget what the other boats are doing, forget everything going on around you and in your head except the task at hand, for as long as you can.
Jigging for lake trout is as easy as 1-2-3.
1. Find Fish--You can't catch 'em where they aint, and they ain't in most places! Find your own damn fish too!
2. See fish--Sonar! See what they do. Watch them. Learn from them. Get frustrated from them. They will "tell" you what they think by their actions and reactions.
3. Catch fish--Keep your jig in their face until one eats. When you get a bite, you might want to jerk on it, preferably around the same time as they bite it and still have the bait in their mouth. See above.
There's my annual Jigging post for 2010. Archives have the rest.
OH, and PS-If the so-called "experts at Cabelas and Sportsman's Warehouse were really "experts," they wouldn't have to be punching a cash register or asking every Tom, Dick, and Harry, "May I help you find something" at either of those places! Last I checked, there wasn't much fishing going on inside those walls. Selling, not fishing.
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