Tight Lining??

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Originally Posted by Sailor Jerry

And what methods are those! And does anyone have a diagram of "tightlining" or "dropshotting"?

Is it a jig above a weight?

Hope this helps some.

These are kinda neat. Thought I'd share the new drawings with you.

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/d.../Tightline.jpg

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/d...ipFloatRig.gif

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Originally Posted by LBM

I guess any of my past references about tight lining will have to be discarded since I hardly ever fish anchored or tied up since my boat is usually moving about.

My preferred way of fishing is using tandem jigs and usually with a rod in each hand and hanging those jigs off of each side of the boat and slowly moving around. If I'm marking fish at 15 ft I will have 12 to 15 ft of line pulled off my rod tip plus the distance my rod tip holds above the water. Generally I like to have the line hanging straight down from the rod tip because I will know at which depth I'm running my jigs. While working open flats, channels or channel edges I use two rods but will use one rod when working closer to and tight into brush or bouncing jigs on the bottom and into the rock crevices in riprap.

I consider it trolling or maybe flat lining if I'm letting the baits trail at some variable distance way behind the boat as it moves through the water something I usually do trying to target walleyes and will catch some crappie while fishing for the eyes but have probably caught more legal eyes while actually targeting crappie.

I have also tight-lined jigs just as cp explained. I usually call that vertical jigging, although I may or may not be "jigging"/moving the jig. So, who knows.

At times when tight lining I have found that the crappie will prefer a faster moving bait and then I will move around fast enough that the line doesn't hang straight down from my rod tips. Fishing this away the line is still tight enough that a good thump can be felt when the jig is picked up.

Early on during my crappie fishing education I thought it would be nice to learn spider rigging or crank bait trolling with the rods placed into holders but discovered for me it was more important in feeling the thump than just getting fish into the boat. Now a competitive tournament type fisherman just would not be very successful with that kind of attitude about fishing.

So now I'm looking for a descriptive name for the type of fishing I am doing even though that method's results can usually best be described with the familiar phrase of 'sucking hind teat'. :D :) ;)

Then again, I can't remember just which it was, either Jerry Blake or Daryl Morris coming up with the phrase 'hovering' which at time describes what I'm doing even though I don't use minnows except during the summer trying for the shallow summer slabs around standing timber.

LBM, I do that a lot. The only difference is that I hold both poles in my right hand, hand control trolling motor in left. I call it two-pole trolling, and have heard others refer to it by that name.

I have tight-lined for catfish lots of times, by the method referred to earlier. Enough weight to be able to hold the bait on bottom against current/pressure from reel. Lines snug to be able to see a bite. :shrug:

I always thought I was tight-lining, but I guess I am spider rigging. We fish 8 long rods out from several rod holders at different points around the boat. The rig is line down to a swivel, with the egg weight above the swivel, then an 18 - 24 inch leader down to our jigs. We troll tubes, curly tails, and blakemore roadrunners. The egg weight is typically 1 oz.

any shorefishing tips are greatfully accepted as i am on a fixed income and cannot afford a boat

It always seems that people have different definitions sometimes for the same thing. Definitions always vary a lot. I really don't dwell on definitions.....I just concentrate on finding what method is going to put fish in the boat....and even that varies from day to day...lake to lake. :D