Posted 5/19/2008 3:51 PM (#318734 - in reply to #318725) Subject: Re: Interesting figure 8 technique
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Makes you wonder if a regular figure 8 would have triggered a response sooner?
Guest
Posted 5/19/2008 4:02 PM (#318737 - in reply to #318725) Subject: RE: Interesting figure 8 technique
the worst figure 8 I have ever seen. Way to slow, always turned in towards the boat, didn't make wide turns, did a circle insted of an 8, and he slowed it down every time he was in the straight of the oval.
I would imagine that fish could have been caught within the 2nd or 3rd turn if he would have went faster and used a proper figure 8.
SVT
Posted 5/19/2008 7:20 PM (#318769 - in reply to #318737) Subject: RE: Interesting figure 8 technique
Guest - 5/19/2008 4:02 PM
the worst figure 8 I have ever seen. Way to slow, always turned in towards the boat, didn't make wide turns, did a circle insted of an 8, and he slowed it down every time he was in the straight of the oval.
I would imagine that fish could have been caught within the 2nd or 3rd turn if he would have went faster and used a proper figure 8.
either way he caught it....i hate people that bash how another person is doing something. If it works and gets fish in the boat, it works. Who cares if hes using a snoopy pole. Maybe the fish came in slow, who knows. I guess he should have called you before he started his figure 8. Than he would have caught it way faster....:)
Edited by SVT 5/19/2008 7:25 PM
guest
Posted 5/19/2008 8:16 PM (#318782 - in reply to #318725) Subject: RE: Interesting figure 8 technique
Posted 5/19/2008 8:29 PM (#318784 - in reply to #318769) Subject: RE: Interesting figure 8 technique
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Location: Central WI
SVT - 5/19/2008 7:20 PM
either way he caught it....i hate people that bash how another person is doing something. If it works and gets fish in the boat, it works. Who cares if hes using a snoopy pole. Maybe the fish came in slow, who knows. I guess he should have called you before he started his figure 8. Than he would have caught it way faster....:)
Posted 5/19/2008 8:29 PM (#318785 - in reply to #318725) Subject: Re: Interesting figure 8 technique
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Location: Pittsburgh, PA
still there
lambeau
Posted 5/19/2008 8:37 PM (#318786 - in reply to #318725) Subject: Re: Interesting figure 8 technique
Bob M. featured this video clip in his presentation at the Chicago show. he called this "technique" the "Motion Commotion"; i think his point was that if a fish is hot enough it's gonna eat if it get stimulated to the right level.
he's caught an awful lot of fish on film over the years, and more than a few of those on the standard figure 8...except when using the jackpot, Bob says to never figure 8 the jackpot!
Posted 5/19/2008 9:18 PM (#318794 - in reply to #318786) Subject: Re: Interesting figure 8 technique
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Location: Central WI
lambeau - 5/19/2008 8:37 PM
Bob says to never figure 8 the jackpot!
That's interesting....did he ever give a reason why? I noticed on his Muskie Matrix video on youtube he didnt figure eight when that first big fish followed his jackpot in....just picked the lure up out of the water and dropped it back down.
Posted 5/19/2008 9:31 PM (#318797 - in reply to #318794) Subject: Re: Interesting figure 8 technique
I noticed that as well. I was yelling "FIGURE 8!!!! NNNOOO WHAT ARE YOU DOOOOING??????" at my computer screen.
Edit: What is his reasoning for not doing a figure 8?
Edited by muskydeceiver 5/19/2008 9:33 PM
lambeau
Posted 5/19/2008 9:57 PM (#318800 - in reply to #318725) Subject: Re: Interesting figure 8 technique
he says that the hooking percentage of wtd topwaters (such as the jackpot) are poor at boatside in the figure-8, so he'd rather come back later and catch the fish rather than losing a "5-0" boatside and not having a shot at it later in the day/week.
Posted 5/19/2008 10:14 PM (#318805 - in reply to #318802) Subject: Re: Interesting figure 8 technique
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Looks like he did a better figure 8 with the fish attatched to the bait
Sweet... I want to try that with fish that go in circles, but then again... it will be hard to take that kind of chance!
andy
Posted 5/19/2008 10:44 PM (#318809 - in reply to #318725) Subject: RE: Interesting figure 8 technique
sometimes it just makes the night, being able to have an active fish blow your mind like that...i'll admit i threw up in my mouth a little watching that start to finish
SVT
Posted 5/20/2008 12:29 AM (#318819 - in reply to #318725) Subject: Re: Interesting figure 8 technique
Posted 5/20/2008 6:21 AM (#318824 - in reply to #318819) Subject: Re: Interesting figure 8 technique
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Location: SE, WI.
COOL VIDEO; YOU HAVE TO TRY SOMETHING TO TRIGGER THOSE THINGS.
aCOUPLE OF TECHNIQUES THAT HAS WORKED FOR US OVER THE YEARS IS , AFTER FIGURE 8 ING FOR SEVERAL MINUTES IS TO BRING YOUR BUCKTAIL OUT OF THE WATER AND SLAP IT ON THE SURFACE. ALSO lAST YEAR ON THE WOODS I HAD A FISH FOLLOW FOR MINUTES, BUT FISH SEEMED TO GET TIRED SO I LET THE BUCKTAIL DOWN ABOUT 4 FEET AND JIGGED THE BUCK. THE 42 1/2 WAS MINE.
Derrys
Posted 5/20/2008 7:26 AM (#318830 - in reply to #318725) Subject: Re: Interesting figure 8 technique
On LOTW I've had a couple fish that I really feel it would have been harder to NOT catch. Once in a while you get the occasional fish that just won't take no for an answer, and this seems like one of those. Cool clip, although I don't plan on adapting that technique any time soon.
Posted 5/20/2008 9:35 AM (#318849 - in reply to #318725) Subject: Re: Interesting figure 8 technique
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Although I have to assume that the extra directional change of an actual figure 8 with a high outside rise would have triggered that fish, as it does most fish with the "fire in their eyes", I still cannot help but smile watching that technique work. Perseverance and creativity combined to put one in the net.
Posted 5/20/2008 9:41 AM (#318850 - in reply to #318849) Subject: Re: Interesting figure 8 technique
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Location: Algonquin, ILL
May not be your classical fig 8 but sometimes you gotta do whatever it takes, I've seen times where a Fig 8 actually spooks the fish and they seem to prefer that the bait just rises or sinks at the end of the retreive.
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