06-04-2012, 10:44 PM
I will continue to try but maybe a little more clarification would be helpful.
I've been told to work it slow before, but how slow? Should the bait be: almost stationary most of the time, slow but steady retrieve - constantly cranking, or just slower than a burn retrieve? I know bass are ambush predators and I know motion makes them strike. I don't want to be going too slow to interest them or too fast to know what the hell just whizzed by them.
As far as depth, using Kingman Wash as an example... There are some shallow rocks near shore that very quickly drop off into the abyss. Is my target depth 20', 35', rock bottom, or somewhere in between? I know you said bottom but the bottom in that area is a steep rock grade so the depth changes depending on how far out you cast.
Also I have football head hooks (the ones pictured previously) and I have also acquired a couple football head hooks with worm rattles in them parallel to the shank and plastic weed guards. Does the sound make much difference?
What about other fish in the area. I know stripers are more aggressive than the green bass. If people are catching large quantities of striper does that mean the other species could have been run off?
I'll admit I could be missing subtle strikes as well because other than that smallie I got last week, I'm not accustom to fishing with a moving lure just yet and I'm not sure how to tell a strike from just bouncing off the bottom. When that smallie hit I saw him come up from the bottom to the lure so I slowed it down long enough for him to grab it. I never felt a hit, I just eyeballed it.
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I've been told to work it slow before, but how slow? Should the bait be: almost stationary most of the time, slow but steady retrieve - constantly cranking, or just slower than a burn retrieve? I know bass are ambush predators and I know motion makes them strike. I don't want to be going too slow to interest them or too fast to know what the hell just whizzed by them.
As far as depth, using Kingman Wash as an example... There are some shallow rocks near shore that very quickly drop off into the abyss. Is my target depth 20', 35', rock bottom, or somewhere in between? I know you said bottom but the bottom in that area is a steep rock grade so the depth changes depending on how far out you cast.
Also I have football head hooks (the ones pictured previously) and I have also acquired a couple football head hooks with worm rattles in them parallel to the shank and plastic weed guards. Does the sound make much difference?
What about other fish in the area. I know stripers are more aggressive than the green bass. If people are catching large quantities of striper does that mean the other species could have been run off?
I'll admit I could be missing subtle strikes as well because other than that smallie I got last week, I'm not accustom to fishing with a moving lure just yet and I'm not sure how to tell a strike from just bouncing off the bottom. When that smallie hit I saw him come up from the bottom to the lure so I slowed it down long enough for him to grab it. I never felt a hit, I just eyeballed it.
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