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Fun, frustrating at times and tricky. The big problem is presentation, you often have to go to very heavy, 8-10 oz weights to keep your line in a fairly straight down presentation. Once you start getting your line out to far from the boat, at an angle then you tend to get hung up on stuff, your bait is no longer presented right, especially with a high low rig or a Spro or similiar jig and stinger hook arangement.
So when depth and drift speed conspire to thwart my deadly designs on the flatties or sea bastards I power drift, turning the boat into the current and bumping it in and out of gear watching my lines so that they are pretty straight up and down. Then the fish belong to me, he he he! I also power drift when the current slows down and they normally are not hitting, I will mark some structure and bump it forward making my own drift, and it works well for me. I am far from a really good fisherman, but I learned a long time ago to listen well.
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07-20-2009, 01:12 PM
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Those same techniques would apply to bottom fishing for anything in 75' wouldn't they...including the power drift method which I've heard you guys talk about before.
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Yea pretty much, usually though if you are bottom fishing it on a reef, some rock pile or a wreck. You would anchor up single if you had the right current, or double anchor if changing a lot and let rode out to your floating marker and you can get away with a lot less weight of course.
with them flatties you can fish like that but most times you will be doing a drift over them or putting a hoping mad cocktail blue on a weighted line on a wreck, for the drifting which is the most usual up here you have to cover a lot of ground as they are constantly moving early in the season food wise and later around early July the big boys generally start heading out into deeper water and you have to locate them, again covering a lot of water.
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Good eats there Brother. Glad to see you guys are on the fish. I've caught so many shorts this year that I about give up. Have spent a fair amount of time on the water though, so no reel complaints...
Headed to Hatteras w/ boat in tow in three weeks.
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I know I have said it before, but I think the Black Bass is the finest tasting fish in the sea.....nice going Willy!
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