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Written by Captain Mike Gerry
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Sunday, 07 November 2010 10:23 |
Winter Finesse Fishing
With the cold setting in and winter fishing just around the corner, I thought I would talk a bit about the techniques I believe in the last few years have become a big part of the winter finesse fishing library.
First of all my favorite finesse fishing technique is somewhat of a spin-off of the drop shot technique. Its Secret Weapon Lures “Recoil rig,” the technique is very similar to the drop shot except you have a leader attached to the weight that stretches. When you shake this rig with the tip of the rod, the bait attached above the 18 to 20 inch leader becomes very responsive to movement. It moves and twitches and shakes and causes a reaction bite with a finesse presentation. This bait rigged with a fluke is one catch fishing technique.
The next technique I recommend for winter fishing is whacky rigged sinko type baits, many times on Guntersville the bass will move daily in the winter time to the grass in 10 foot or less of water. Slow presented stick bait like a sinko wacky rigged can be a great fish catcher this time of year. In fact if you combine the wacky rig bait with the Secret Weapon recoil rig dropped to 15 or so feet of water off the channel can put some great winter time monsters in the boat on Guntersville.
Lastly the Shaky Head technology has impressed me so much that once the water temperature drops into the 50’s a Punisher Shaky head rigged with the Go-2-Bait shaky head worms is my favorite as the grass dies off the edges of the ledges. The Punisher Shaky Head lure is one of the few shaky head baits made with #4 or #5 hooks and to me this allows you to stick a bigger fish without worrying that the fish will throw the lure. It also is weighted so the worm upon dropping allows the head to fall with precision with a vertical pattern to the bottom and cause a strike.
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The Advantage of Confidence Baits |
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Written by Captain Mike Gerry
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Saturday, 28 August 2010 08:48 |
The Advantage of Confidence Baits
The last few times I have been on the water, I have been fishing with people who have just started fishing over the last couple of years. It appears that the number one question I get is how they learn to fish all the different baits on the market. Well my answer is not what they expect; as I believe that the worst thing an inexperienced angler can do is start trying to learn to fish to many baits. There is just no way can an angler just starting out fish all the different baits on the market. In fact I’m not sure that a weekend angler can ever get enough experience to accomplish that.
My answer is to take the few types of bait you have experience in and gain confidence with them before you venture out to other baits. I believe that there is not bait on the market that if you became proficient with, that you couldn’t catch fish 12 months a year on any lake. Take the baits you have some confidence in and learn to fish them in several different ways, under many different conditions and you will be much better off especially as a weekend angler. There was a time in my fishing career where I fished with nothing but a 6 inch lizard, and I learned to catch fish under every condition on the lake. I believe that as an angler starts to mature as a fisherman the more different baits he fishes with the more his decision making becomes flawed. He questions his choice when things get bad or hard and becomes frustrated and ends up having a bad day and wondering why he went to the lake.
In fact, one reason I don’t like people to bring their tackle box with me, is because they change baits way too often. Frankly, they spend more time changing baits than fishing and wonder why at the end of the day they struggled. I put them fishing with the bait that will catch fish, teach them how to fish it and put up with the ups and downs of a day on the water. Fishing with confidence and struggling is better than fishing with several different baits over the period of a day and struggling.
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Tricks for Spinner Bait Fishing |
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Written by Captain Mike Gerry
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Saturday, 21 August 2010 09:42 |
Tricks for Spinner Bait Fishing
As we get into the fall the ability to catch fish on spinner baits will pick up tremendously, the bass will be feeding and getting ready for the cold weather. There are I believe some very distinct tricks in presentation that will make you a better fisherman with a spinner bait. First of all let’s talk about when to pick up your spinner bait.
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fall brings many ideal days for spinner bait fishing because we always get many days with north winds. With many cool windy days like this it gives you many opportunities to work spinner baits. There is a chop on the water and the bass are generally active, the boat is moving too fast for a worm or a jig but it is ideal for your favorite spinner bait. On Guntersville because we have a lot of grass and you have found the ideal day, you just need to down size you weight to a 3/8 oz. spinner bait, match the color to the water and your ready to go. The next fall trick I believe is size of the bait, not weight; I like a small frame spinner bait like Punisher 3/8 oz. small frame spinner bait. It tough, it catches fish and has a good sharp hook.
Now that you are set up with the correct bait and size the next trick is to entice a bite, here is where technique becomes key. I have said this many times before but spinner baits are worked with your wrist and rod tip as well as correct rigging to give them action. The technique is simply one of ticking the top of the structure like grass, wood etc. and letting the bait deflect off or bounce off the bottom structure. Then when you’re working the bait, and get to the end of the grass line letting the bait helicopter down off the edge or around trees and structure. The deflection or sudden stop and drop cause’s the bite, as the bass will react to the change of direction with their aggressive nature.
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Blue Gill Beds & Bass Fishing |
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Written by Captain Mike Gerry
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Saturday, 07 August 2010 12:59 |
Blue Gill Beds Make Great Summertime Fishing Spots
Most people fail to realize that bluegill spawn 4 or more times a year and their beds make for great areas in the heat of the summer to find active bass. Most bluegill beds are easy to find just look for hard bottom areas in 2 to 6 feet of water, you can’t miss them. Areas like scattered grass, stumps and water soaked wood make great areas for them to bed. Bedding areas aren’t always the same size as they take on different areas from as small as 10 or so beds in a given area to hundreds in others. The thing to remember is the beds will generally be near deep water, ranging from 10 to 12 feet and sharp drops with beds on them make for the best bass fishing.
One of the best ways I catch fish over bluegill beds is using top water baits, the noise and motion of buzz baits, or popping baits make for great top action and catching plenty of bass. One key to me is making several casts and covering the area inch to inch. The key is not disrupting the beds so you don’t run the bluegill off of them.
You accomplish that by keeping your boat positioned away from the beds preferably in deep water where you’re trolling motor won’t scare the bluegill away, if the bluegill stay in the area so will the bass. It’s also important to not overwork an area, develop a pattern to cover the bedding area so you are not pounding the same piece of wood over and over, cover the area with a plan and move on to another bedding area if you don’t get bite.
Lastly look for activity on or near the beds, many times the gar are moving over and around the beds or there are schools of bait fish in there with the bedding bluegill. The more active the bedding area is the more chances you have of getting your line stretched.
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It's Time for the Fall Frog Bite |
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Written by Captain Mike Gerry
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Sunday, 01 August 2010 10:11 |
It’s Time for the Fall Frog Bite
August is upon us and the fun is about to begin! Every year about this time, I start to get that urge to watch a bass destroy a frog over the grass. We are right on schedule the grass is beginning to brown up, turn nasty and icky and the nastier it gets the better the frog bite. If you go back to the history of this technique, no technique or pattern has brought more people or notoriety to Guntersville than catching fish on a frog.
In the late 60’s and early 70’s Lloyd Talent of Guntersville invented this technique and the soft rat along with it, he called it “rat fishing” and along with the Guntersville grass made Guntersville as famous as any lake in the country. In the late 80’s Lloyd Talent sold his technology and patterns to Mann’s bait company and the rest is history. Rat fishing became frog fishing and has proliferated all over the country, there are now probably 10 companies making their own version or the rat or frog and people come from all over the country to fish Lake Guntersville. This attacking explosion of a big bass busting up through the grass to eat a frog is as addicting as any fishing pattern ever discovered.
The best thing about this is as we move into fall, the frog bite last all day long. The brighter the sun, the nastier the grass, the ickier the top is, the more it foams and creates a path with your frog the more fish you catch. There is no real key to it, you just have to find that icky brown grass, listen for the bream sucking insects off the top of the grass and you’re ready. Throw the rat out there slowly wind it back, maybe pop it a little, or stop and move it and hang on. The frog fishing pattern is upon us; my preferences is Tru-Tungsten Pro Maxx Frogs, their tough, weighted correctly and catch fish with extremely sharp hooks.
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