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Location: Not where I wanna be! | ok, rather than fighting the wind all the time, i have found letting the boat drift across/past a targeted location seems to be effective.
so here is my question.
Do any of you do this? and if so, do you cast infront of the drift, into the water you have yet to pass over.
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do you cast behind the boat over the water you just drifted over?
the reason for my question is this, lures work different at different speeds. obviously.
casting in front of the drift (moving towards the bait) requires you to retrieve faster, and visa versa for behind the boat....
Which have you found to be more effective?? and which baits seem to work well with this....
any thoughts and ideas are greatly appreciated!! |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Always casting with the wind, and fan casting the area. I 'sail' using my electric motor to control the speed of the drift. Boat control is everything... |
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Location: Mille Lacs | sworrall - 7/12/2007 9:16 AM
Always casting with the wind, and fan casting the area. I 'sail' using my electric motor to control the speed of the drift. Boat control is everything...
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| A wind sock works awesome for this application. put it in the center of the boat and control your direction etc with the trolling motor periodically.
I too cast with the wind...probably mental thing for me...but I dont want to float over a fish then try and catch it...
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| I cast into the wind 99.9% of the time. The lure tells me what's way up ahead and I can back right off instantly. If a fish follows off a spot, I'm backing away from her and her home, not heading right over it. Lots of times I'll fish a spot and find an extra weed finger, high spot in the rocks etc and have plenty of time to stay back and learn it from a distance. It's like an early warning system to me. Little tougher on the batteries but well worth it in terms of being thorough and taking your time. And when I hook a fish, I'm much more comfortable cutting off the power and pulling away from her than moving towards her. One of the biggest fish I've seen on Lake Nipissing burned me on a Suick drifting with the wind, she hit on a pause, pushed the lure at me and I was moving right at her, plenty of slack. For sure in a big wind, not fighting it and using the sock works awesome too. If it gets real rough I'm trollin anyways! |
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Location: S.E. Wisconsin | Casting behind the boat always puts me at funny angle to do a good figure eight. |
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rarely work into a significant wind |
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| I grew up fishing for muskie two ways:
1.If there's wind we drifted with it and cast to the water we're drifting to(with the wind)
2.No wind meant somebody was in the back of the boat sculling(paddling) the boat around bogs, whips, etc. A lot of times the guy who boated a fish would move to the back and scull the others.
That was pretty much the deal in our 14' aluminum MirroCrafts with 9.9's and 25's until about 2002 when our fleet started getting upgraded. I've recently picked up a 19.5' bass boat that ain't gettin' paddled but the trolling motor on the bow replaces that and nobody has to get the workout or lose fishin' time. We still drift if there's wind though, just hard to break habits that work and feel right. |
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| I had a girfriend I would scull when we went fishing, but never my buddies. Not that their is anything wrong with that. |
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| I use two of these for even more control
http://www.lindyfishingtackle.com/pages/Drift_Control.shtml
I cast with the wind generally |
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Location: Not where I wanna be! | thanks for all the thoughts guys!! |
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