Saturday morning drift

[pieman]

Hit the water at 6 am Saturday and did a couple drifts near the causeway. The heat ran me off around 9 am but not before I boxed a few. The Pelicans don't lie. 5'-8' water slow jigging the bottom with 1/4 oz jig head. The H&H Strawberry/watermelon paddle tails were the most preferred. I noticed that the larger trout were hitting real close to the boat sorta like Muskie or Pike fishing. (that figure 8 jazz really does work!!!) Awesome day!

[H.Maier]

That's the way to figure them out, Pie man! Common sense will take you a long way.

[trophytroutman]

Nicely done!!!!!

[Flounderpounder420]

Great report and great looking fish. Thanks.

[Root Canal]

Nice going Pieman!!

[djsisco911]

Right on

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[grown in Tx]

Nice, I do the figure 8 thing too just in case.

[Old Salt]

Great job.


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[Silver Wolf]

Great. I'm going to buy me those. Lord Bless.
robert

[plugger]

Nice ! Thanks for the report . Are you talking about landing a fish with the figure 8 reference ?

[pieman]

Nice ! Thanks for the report . Are you talking about landing a fish with the figure 8 reference ?

I'm talking about during the retrieve before you lift the bait out of the water allow it to sink a couple feet and do a slow figure 8. The bigger trout were trailing all the way to the boat and would strike during this delayed teasing process. Thinking back I probably should have simply slowed my retrieve all along. I will see this weekend.

[TroutSupport]

Nice work!

[plugger]

i'm talking about during the retrieve before you lift the bait out of the water allow it to sink a couple feet and do a slow figure 8. The bigger trout were trailing all the way to the boat and would strike during this delayed teasing process. Thinking back i probably should have simply slowed my retrieve all along. I will see this weekend.

ok , interesting . I recently talked to a friend who fishes a lot say that the bite has been good on a slow , slow straight retrieve with a slight twitch .

The figure 8 i'm familiar with is to disorient flounder at the surface so they can be netted more easily .