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| I mostly fish shallow clear rivers and streams in Pa and Wv. I'm looking for some tips to convert followers into biters. I do use flouro leaders and I know night fishing or fishing when the water is stained may produce but am hoping someone would have a bait or presentation suggestion.
Recentley had follows in the a.m. and later in the day on a clacker buzz bait. Also on glide baits. And had several follows in the middle of a hot sunny afternoon on a walleye pattern shallow invader, mostly jerking and pausing. I finally stuck a 43 on a krusher in some deeper water so I may have learned something from that.
Thanks in advance for any tips!
Edited by h20wolf 7/31/2008 10:17 AM
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Location: Madison, WI | Try speeding the bait up about 10-15 ft from the boat, that way you take them seeing you out of the equation. Also Deeper figure 8's at the start. |
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| Once fishing in the French Broad in NC I made an observation that seems very pertinent to stream fishing, particularly when fish are coming off the banks, start your retrieve immediately. Do not dawdle, and have that bait moving away from the bank on impact. Seems to me to make a big difference between strikes and follows.
Also remember that dusk is the time lots of food items move around in the stream, particularly in slow pool and riffle situations, they move into the shallows to take advantage of a feeding area they cannot utilize in broad daylight due to safety issues with birds etc. and crayfish come out from under rocks, bugs hatch and so on.
They aren't uncatchable, but they aren't always catchable. |
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Location: Duluth, MN | On clear water i would try switching to smaller more lifelike baits. A Rapala Super Shad in perch pattern is a great lure. Or the jointed Xraps go up to a size 13. You can really get alot of action on those. Or maybe go to something plastic like a SuperD or Suzy Sucker.
Good luck |
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