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| Looking for some suggestions on fish that come in late in the retrieve. Its almost like you run out of room/water. A couple weeks ago I had a dandy come flying out of some deeper weeds about ten feet from the boat and by the time she got to the bait I was starting the first turn of the 8. Was taking a whack at it right at the boat when I had no where to go but the 8. Ended up missing the bait and disappeared. It was my first time casting a supermodel with the twin 13's and I fig 8'd as long as I could, but wish it could have been more. Frustrating, but it almost seems like it is part of the game. Win some, lose some. It was not the greatest conditions; flat water, high pressured water, new spot I was trying. I guess if anything I gained the location and can better position the boat next time, under better conditions. Any suggestions are appreciated.
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Location: Uxbridge Ontario | Sometimes it is just the luck of the draw. But to add something that may be of some use to you; perhapse you are fishing too tight to the area that holes the fish. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | know where you are relative to where the outside weed edge starts and target your cast to hit the edge or just inside of it ... |
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Location: Hayward, WI | jonnysled - 7/10/2012 9:43 PM
know where you are relative to where the outside weed edge starts and target your cast to hit the edge or just inside of it ...
My experience agrees with this. Even at the beginning of the year about as close as I normally fish to a weedline has about 1/2 my cast over the weeds and 1/2 in open water. There might be other reasons, but I get very few follows. I get some but am more likely to just have fish hit, and I think it's due to me tending to fish a little farther off structure than most.
Once the thermocline sets up about as close as I get to weeds is a distance like Sled says - baits will land right on, or just to either side of the weedline.
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