Well finally am setup thanks for all your help here. Here is my setup. I have two 14 foot , two 11 foot and two 9 foot poles. I use high vis yellow pro slick braid with a fluorocarbon leader. 1/16th ounce jigs. I took my braid on each pole and marked them with a sharpie at 60 feet, this way the lines are out the same distance each time. First attempt was week ago Saturday and all I caught was 13 cats from 4 pounds to 8 pounds. Ok I said I guess I have the cats figured out.. Friday took my grandson out and again only caught cats.He caught a 11 pounder cat. Not to give up because I want to conquer this flat-line I took out on the lake yesterday. Here is how it went.

Set out in Big Allison did not see much bait but said they have to be here so I trolled for 4 hours and nothing. I never learn I thought lets go back where we saw lots of bait past two times and try again. Maybe the kitties will leave me alone. Got there about 2:00 afternoon. Got setup and noticed bait was down. Tried to catch no luck. 3:30 the bait moved up and I said maybe its playtime. So I moved my speed up to 1.1 MPH to get jigs up in the water and it hit. Boy was I having fun doing something different. Got 13 nice fish up near the surface. one 2 pounder 16 inch long, a bunch of 14 and 13 inch crappie. One small flat area and two points were productive.

I know this is nothing like you pro's on flatlinning but for me I climbed that mountain on the third attempt. I now have a positive experience to work on and improve some more. One more footnote My first three bites I pulled too hard and lost the crappie. I had to ease off that initial urge to wrench into boat. I saw a couple of times the pole did not move much it just looked like it was loading up and not a frantic movement of tip of a fighting fish.

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