Do yall rig out of the front and back? If so, how well does the back fisherman do? Wouldn't mind trying it out this spring. Got 14s for the front and can use my long lining 10 footers out the back
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Do yall rig out of the front and back? If so, how well does the back fisherman do? Wouldn't mind trying it out this spring. Got 14s for the front and can use my long lining 10 footers out the back
Always best to fish two up front, if you can. I put guys in the back if I have more than two. Guys up front generally get most of the bites, but still catch a bunch in back. For the record....my guys in the back of the boat aren't fishing directly out back, but off either side.
My partners, that fish in my boat, fish off the sides and fan their rods out to cover as wide an area as possible.
Example : my fishing buddy, Carl -
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And I've been in the same position in other buddy's boats. And while the back seat angler may not get first crack at the fish, they do catch their share. And that can sometimes be because they're alerted to the fact of approaching those fish, by the angler in front catching some.
... cp :kewl
I fished the back for years before we changed boats. Not near as much happened in the back as there was in the front. I did the best basically long lining with floats and with a couple really long rods to reach out side of the front poles. I would put my wife up front with 6 or 8 poles and chauffeur her around the lake from the back of the boat with the ipilot. I got to see her catch a whole lot of really nice fish. Of course, from the back, I could sometimes see the bite faster than she would. It was kinda like playing solitaire with someone looking over your shoulder. She hated me telling her she was getting bit:biggrin From time to time, I would need to take a trip by myself to get my spider rigging fix.
You can long line out of the back which is basically casting your line out the back and trolling around. You need to have a way to work your trolling motor however.
I fished that way years ago and 3 guys in a 14' flatbottom boat with 6 poles each looks like a porcupine. :Rofl Atleast that is what the game warden said. We had poles out front back and both sides !:fish
I was thinking about using floats off the back while rigging off the front. Put a lil distance between the boat and the bait. Would work fishing shallow. Don't know if it would work well if fishing deeper than 8ft. That's a lot of line from bait to bobber. I guess you could just lower the rig into the water and slowly let line out til you get to the distance you like.
My wife and I fish 12 -10' poles. I fish 6 up front and my wife fishes 6 - 3 on one side and 3 on the other right beside of her seat in the back of our tracker pro 16 boat. She has caught some of the biggest crappie that was caught. I think it is because when the first set of minnows come through the fish are more ready to bite the second set that passes over.:twocents
That's what I was thinking. The only thing is, Lake Lanier is very clear most of the time. Could use some distance away from the boat in the back. Floats would work since I'm moving so slow. The new Thiel floats that are marked for a specific weight work well and they make them for 1/2oz which I normally use to rig with.
We use floats when the crappie move into shallower depth on our poles. The crappie are sometimes in 4' to 6' water and we fish 2'to3' deep using corks. We troll very slow and have even caught them in clear water. When they go deep in the summer we take the corks off and fish 10'to16' water and have caught them. We use 1or2 #7 shot and the least size cork we can get by with it not sinking on it's own. Oh we do use minnows. Were "legal" drop a fish habitat or two it will help you and the fish. Be safe and good luck fishing. :fishQuote:
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Gabepeeps: The wife and I caught these this past july. She catches about as many as I do and most of the time she catches the biggest.
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In Kansas, we get 4 guys with 3 poles each. We do rotate around, but the guys in the back catch, too. In fact, I think they catch more of the "other" fish than the front though...white bass, wipers, LMB, and channels in our lake. We just fish straight down, but I like the float idea. good luck, Brad
I have a stick steer so anyone fishing with me is fishing out the back or off the side. Lot of times they out fish me in the front. I do push or pull floats out the back. I use slip floats with the little rubber stoppers and can fish pretty deep.
Do you ever have a problem with pulling the line up through the slip float? I guess you'd have to move really slow to keep the jig from being pulled up. I was thinking about using 2 bobber stops about a foot apart so if I needed to speed up, I wouldn't lose depth control. On second thought, if I'm using a 1/2oz weight, it shouldn't move at all.
I did it all the time out of the last boat. I ran (10) 12 to 18 footers fanned out the front while my partner would run (8) 6 and 10 footers out the back in an alternating pattern. There were plenty days that the back out performed the front. Especially the 6 footers. It was like the front rods got their attention and the back took them home. I tried the floats out the back but the crosswinds really messed with my overall presentation.
My boat is 21' with an iPilot Link system networked together with HB 958DI in front and HB 1199SI on the console. I utilize Dub-L-Seats in the front and back to accommodate up to four clients. My rod holders are Bee Ready's. I stand in the middle of the boat so I can watch the HBs, bait, retie, land fish, put fish in livewell, all while using the remote. Clients just fish and have fun.
With just one client, I sit in the front with them and use the foot pedal, most of the time. With two clients, they fish either the front or back, which depends mostly on wind conditions and clients comfortableness with boats. I limit most clients to two rods each. That is about the limit most folks can handle and still react quickly enough. It's also about all I can handle baiting and re-rigging at one time. On slow bite days, the front generally get bit more but the back folks do fine. As others mentioned, the back folks are really fishing off the side, rather than out the back.
Try placing the longest rods directly out the front, then shorter rods out the side in the front. For the back, put the longest rods last and the shorter one forward. It's best to have both rods in the back of the boat farther out than the ones in the front. That gives better coverage and targets crappie which the front poles miss.
Hope this helps!
I mostly fish with my buddy in his boat. The first time he took me tight lining he caught more than me out the front of the boat. That was the only time he has out fished me. Some times I think he gets mad at me because I catch more fish than he does, from the back. He says it's because he's got to work the trolling motor and all that and keep me on the fish. But I catch more fish out the back than he does from the front. Thanks Buddy!
I have used that excuse of having to do all the work, as well. When the wind is bad, I even move to the back. Many times it's much easier to detect strikes from the back and more room.
Great mess. Let me know when to come over for a fish fry!
He has a point :Rofl .... boat positioning, depth finder watching, "and all that" does take a bit more effort than just sitting in a seat & watching your rods. But, getting first crack at a spot sometimes does counterbalance that. He could very easily "front end" you ... but, since you're catching fish, it would seem that he's being as fair as he can in keeping you within reach of the fish.Quote:
Originally Posted by scslayer
... cp :kewl