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Location: Appleton | What percentage of the time do you spend trolling each type of bait? Is there a certain time/water temp you would use one over the other? Just passing time until I can get out again. Thanks for the help. |
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Location: oswego, il | I troll mostly straight baits, rarely do i troll jointed ones. A couple reasons for this. One, I have a hard time getting jointed baits to tune properly, no matter how much I tweek them, they always pop out of the water and inevitable twist the line or tangle. Second, I prefer the thump of a straight flat sided bait bait over the snake swim action of a jointed one. |
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Location: Pittsburgh, pa | I troll jointed baits 90% of the time. It's just what works best for me. I have caught them on straight, but like the jointed. |
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Location: Hartford Wi | I troll both and really dont seem to matter much to me...
just my two cents |
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| I troll both, and both catch fish. I prefer jointed with rattles for dirty water and straight otherwise |
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| I troll about 1%-2% of my total time on the water per year, however I caught several (6 total) fish trolling last year, and trolled for a total of an hour this year and lost a nice fish.. Every fish has hit either a jointed Super Stalker or a jointed Legend Perchbait... From my experience, the Stalkers do need to be tuned, the legends run perfectly everytime.. Stalkers run fairly shallow (10' of less) and the legends really can get down and deep... |
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Location: Windy City | I like them both, however I would rather troll a straight bait with alot of thump or rattle to it because I fish dirty water.
Edited by one last cast 8/9/2007 10:08 PM
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| Im going to say that it depends on the fishes activity that day, We start out running a plethora of offerings. jointed\ straight, rattles, or silent.
We let the fish dictate what we are going to run. period.
somedays only small straight stuff works, somedays large jointed stuff works, and everything in between when it comes to everything else.
You have to be versatile out there, don't run strictly straight baits cause someone told you they never catch fish on jointed ones.
If I were to go with one guideline for trolling, it all comes down to keeping your baits CLEAN, and running them at good depths (above the fish).
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What to troll, Jointed or Straight?