Quote Originally Posted by BOCOON View Post
I First want to say by far the best thread I have ever read on cdc.....BAR NONE.....Could be because I find myself in the exact state the S-town is in.........great support from everyone....I must admit I have been a sleeper here for a while but this brought me out the bushes.....LOL!!! I too would like to fish more tourneys and as stated most are won pulling.........Another reason for my interest is UNIL RECENT it dosen't seem to rain like it use too and the lakes stay clear....thus in my opinion making it tougher to catch fish tightlining....... dunno just something else to throw out there what do you all think??
That's the main reason I am learning how to longline, from the tournaments I have fished it seems to be working this time of year, the last one I fished everyone was trolling except for 3 boats and those 3 boats were the last 3 boats......and I was one of them...lol. I am not afraid to try something different especially when you take a butt whoopin like we did! I have always been a tightliner and jigger, but I have come convinced that as others have said the longlining is a better technique for possibly finding the bigger more aggressive fish in open water than tightlining. Especially when the fish seem to be constantly moving like they have been this year with the weather the way it has been. It really depends on alot of factors, like the lake you are fishing, but I just think longlining is something else I need to add to the arsenial to be able to do now and in the future.