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| What does everyone think are effective two-person strategies to maximize the number of fish that are put in the boat? Things such as using different colors/types/depths of lures or things like that. |
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Location: st. croix county, wisconsin | the most commonly used strategy is having someone use a top water or jerkbait style bait and the other use a bucktail or crank. this can help find out what the fish are interested on that day and what depth. you should rarely have 2 people throwing the same style of bait because it limits the you and your partner covering the most ground. always having the right stategy before going out on the water can be mush easier and help put fish in the boat |
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Location: Money, PA | Trolling. That simple...in PA 2 rods per man is the limit. Trolling 4 rods allows you to use various baits and hit various levels of the water column until you find the right program. You are also covering way more water than you ever would casting. So, to answer your question, "how to maximaize the # of fish put in the boat?" The clear-cut answer is to troll. |
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Location: Minnesota: where it's tough to be a sportsfan! | Depends on the targeted area I'd say. If we know there's a fish on it somewhere I like to run some type of jerk or glidebait followed up by a slow presentation in the back. Sometimes this is even a jig rig. If we are covering water looking for fish, then something along the line as xMUSKIEx said. I know we talk about it in the boat but there's been more than once when I'll look back and the other guy has the exact same bait on his rod too. |
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Location: Maple Grove, MN | I think it depends on whether or not you have an idea what the fish want on that day. Once that is determined, then how you fish becomes more important than lure choice.
I think the two fishermen should cast on opposite sides of the boat. I have seen many boats where both fishermen are casting to the same side of the boat and ignoring the other side. They are basically fishing half the water. That strategy alone can double your chances on many spots. |
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I think two people can more effectively work a piece of structure if you coordinate your casts, and the person in front casts out at about a 45 degree angle and leaves some "fresh water" for the guy in the back of the boat. YES, sometimes a cast off the other side of the boat is effective, when the fish are staged off the structure a cast length or so. If that turns out to be the case, than I'd rather move the boat off the structure a cast length. Sometimes the second or third bait through a spot is the one that gets the fish to respond, and unless you're running the boat SUPER slow, you're missing fish with only one person casting on the structure side of the boat in my opinion.
Now, if you're fishing a big flat, or a neck down area between two islands or reefs and the fish could be staged off either side? By all means, cast off the other side of the boat. But for "traditional" casting along shorelines or weed edges, working around a reef, etc. I much prefer two baits off the same side of the boat, even 3. That way you can pick apart all the little pockets, and inside turns, and cover a variety of depths and presentations. For those situations, if you're moving fish off the other side of the boat, then you should either be farther off the structure or on the inside working out.
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Location: Pelican Rapids, MN | Shallow - the classic - Bucktail / topwater
Deep - Bucktail / Bulldawg |
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| I know someone posted something similar to this once but it said something along the lines of throwing something that compliments what the other guy is throwing. I don't remember what post that was but it was helpfull does anyone else care to explain some on this too! good post first cast |
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Location: Wausau | Well phrased: "effective two-person strategies to maximize the number of fish" leaving out the words right/wrong.
A situational question will receive a multitude of theories based on individual success. Analytically thinking we could hypothesize strategies for each season, structural element, weather based and/or current. Generally stating, one could start with the strategies mentioned above; opposite sides, fresh water, lure selection, water column, and/or contrasts. Once a pattern is theorized, you may change the boat position to parallel, castings angles, lure retrieve and/or lure size. Great topic and one I would spend more time exchanging thoughts for each situation. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | on a calm day go to the lake and fish it from the inside out sometime ... it's a great learning process to see the details of the structure you are fishing vs. always casting "into" it. angles, boat position and leeward/wayward configurations could make a great hour of conversation on a single structure complex.
otherwise ... pounder in the front and spanky in the back ... LOL ... :0) |
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Location: Maple Grove, MN | There are lots of things one can do to be successful, but what about some things that you shouldn't do while fishing two in a boat?
Here is a partial list of no-nos while fishing two in a boat:
- No farting when you are upwind of your partner.
- Do not tell the same fish story on the same spot every time. Mix it up a little.
- Don't sit down and wait for your partner to start seeing fish before casting again.
- Do not eat your partners lunch.
- Do not pee in the boat. Over the side of the boat works much better. Better yet, use the bathroom before you get on the water.
- Do not whistle at every boat that comes by with young women in it.
- No mooning large boats that come to close. Instead, just clank your lure off the side of their boat.
Anything else? 
Edited by Herb_b 4/30/2010 1:18 PM
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Location: NW WI | jonnysled - 4/30/2010 10:49 AM
on a calm day go to the lake and fish it from the inside out sometime ... it's a great learning process to see the details of the structure you are fishing vs. always casting "into" it. angles, boat position and leeward/wayward configurations could make a great hour of conversation on a single structure complex.
otherwise ... pounder in the front and spanky in the back ... LOL ... :0)
Spanky? |
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Location: Houlton, WI | Always use different depths for sure and mix up colors. |
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