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Location: Madtown, WI | One question, how can you lay an exact track if you first don't know every little in and out of a weedline. TYpically you run into the weedline, then have to weave back out to stay outside it...then you run into a point so now have to adjust back out again, then keep going straight thinking you are setting a trail down right off the edge and completely miss a nice inside pocket etc.
Unless you can VISUALLY see the entire bottom, then laying a trail is not in my mind as effective for a caster (troller is very different in my mind).
Brad and I few years ago got into some fish on a HUGE flat...WAY OFF the shore. On this flat were clumps of cabbage of different size. We literially drove around them and marked up the outline of these clumps with green x's. Instead of aimlessly doing drifts over this flat hoping to contact fish that were holding on these clumps....we pinpointed every cast as we knew where the edges of the clumps were....we knew where the HEART of the clumps were.... We started putting fish icons on the locations of clumps....talk about starting to put a pattern together....certain clumps started showing more fish.
We were able to put the cast ON THE MONEY all the time. A trail would never let us do that. We could almost call where fish would be at on this HUGE sparcely weeded flat.
Can't remember how many fish that trip alone we put in the boat, I know I got a 4 footer off of a clump that had several fish icons on it at that point...
Results speak for the tools and the way they are used.
Edited by C.Painter 8/19/2010 10:30 PM
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