Old age catching up with me .
I got to fish about thirty minutes this past week.
Figured I’d target green fish since they’re usually the easiest to catch this time of year .
I took my 6’ TFO Pastime Trout&Panfish paired with a 500 size reel . A fairly lightweight combo . My bait was a 1/32 ball head jig with a Trout Magnet Cross .
The outfit casts great . But the issue came when I started twitching my bait on retrieve.
I experienced pain in my grip, my wrist and the bones between the wrist and elbow .
I did hook a nice green fish , about 14” , fought him right up to where I slid it up the rocky bank and as I was keeping pressures on the line , stepping off the dock to lip it , the hook left go . :( .
Today I got a chance to fish about forty minutes at the town pond before the cold front and rain ran me home.
I was fishing with a shorter rod , a shortened Abu Garcia Mass Beat III rod paired with a 500 reel . A 1/64 TM jighead with a cross body .
I was able to fish the shorter rod without the pain I experienced earlier this week.
I’m afraid I’m going have to give up twitching with my longer rods . I think it’s the added leverage of the rod that’s creating the problem.
My 6’ and longer rods are going to be used for swimming baits and float fishing .
I need to do more float fishing. At one time, float fishing was my go to method of fishing, in small bodies of water .
Tough getting old . :) .
