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Good Day Today for Single Poling
Hit the Pearl for some more engineering on my Skeeter. I decided to fish a secret weapon I'm developing for Ross Barnett but it didn't do so hot in the river system. Anyway I pulled out my 11ft Wally Marshall SOLO and just single pole fished the patches of cover mixed with structure. Now I will admit, I had to tease the Studs to bite. The Tight-eyes thumped my BGBS so much I wished I had a tube of Crazy Glue with me.
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Silverroach text a minute ago about my presentation move to get better fish to commit and I told him about the video we made to support a Louisiana Sportsman Magazine article I was in. I need to find a link to the video, the article was Named Fishing Above the Fray written by Keith Lusher. Anyway using the presentation technique fairly frequently, I mean the Hammers really took most of the jigs on the drop after numerous cycles of the jig. I didn't catch a single Slab on the first drop. I was working the same hole in the vegetation for 4-5 minutes but they would Smoke the jig when the commitment took place.
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This cooler is larger than my usual Roadie, the Roadie is sitting in the Champion up on The Rez waiting on me to show up. Guess you can use my shoe for reference to the size of the fish, they are nice. I used a #1 Gold Hildebrandt Colorado spinner with a 1/16 jighead & BGBS to locate Gill & Shell Cracker beds today too. The smaller Ditch Pickles got treated to the box too if they bit the spinner bait. Found numerous beds, got to pass on to my brother so He can take his granddaughter fishing.
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Came home with a appetite, the is a single order of Fajita Nachos from the Mexican Restaurant here in Kiln, MS. Fantastic food at fantastic prices. Now that is a 1/3 sheet pan liner of Steak Fajita Nachos for $14 + tax. Kaboom!
Above the Fray - Video Edited by Keith Lusher
I found the link to the article support video. I used a GoPro on my chest for the first time I think, anyway my life vest got in the way but you can get the idea of how I tease fish into biting. I patiently sat and presented my jig in this fashion for 4-5 minutes before the Slabs would commit. I didn't scope them to know they were there I just Old Schooled them into eating.
Credit goes to Keith Lusher who took a bunch of horrible footage clips and edited it into something to learn presentation skills from if you are a bit weak in that department.
You can see on the graph I'm fishing deep water but fishing very shallow just teasing the fish to rise and commit to the jig. Fishing this way I have made many a good day out of bad fishing conditions. Some of my lifts in this video is too fast. It's hard for me to do two things at one time and I was focusing on teaching. I hope it helps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynGakHkdyns
