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| When I have a bait that gets follows but not hits I always get off the bait and look for another shining path. At times the fish just do not want to respond to much of anything so a follow is all you can achieve and hope to go back to the location later. My whole strategy is developed around going to the right spot throwing the right bait and getting hit. If I had the luxury of fishing with a partner or a couple people I might keep the follow bait on the trailing line but I would never want it in the front of the boat.
In my opinion a follow dislocates your fish and puts it in a less favorable biting position and thus handicaps you on the first pass effect. It may give you information that is later useful but hey, I'm talkin about now! And my thinking on follows that hit throwback baits is that if the original presentation hit a few better notes that fish would have gone on the first bait through.
When the follows are coming my first divergent strategy is to change PACE. Does anybody have any thoughts on this and PLEASE does anybody have a sure fire system for turning them into biters??!!? [:)] | |
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| if I did, I'd be a rich man now![:0]
I always try one cast with a different retrieve speed but the same lure and the I change the size of that previous lure. Something interested the fish but not enough. Over here downsizing the lure is better than using a larger bait. But I can imagine for a muskie it's the opposite.
I had one pike charge my bait 4 times and it was hooked the fifth. That bait (a slider but 8cm long and with a very nice wiggle) looked so real it even charged it again after I released it. That fish was 91cm so go figure?!
I'm interested in this so great question! I'm curious what you guys think about this.
I hardly ever see that a pike prefers a differenbt color when you had a follow on a natural colored lure. I had one pike charge my supershadrap three times. Then I picked up my rod with the 6" cobb's shallowrunner crankbait in perch and bang! First hit was the right one. The first perch was a shining one (metallic perch but never sold), the second was jack cobb's naturel perch/white belly which had less flash. Was that the trigger? I mean, that fish charged my supershadrap three times but never wholeheartedly. Or was it a change in vibration, a wider swing of the crankbait that tracked a little to the side (my cobb's swims slightly to one side but I can't correct its track anymore. The lip is glued in out of center)?
I have tons of examples. Now lets hear yours! | |
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