Re: Trask Tidewater 10/21
Nothing exotic. Merely sandshrimp, combined with your eggs. You can flatten out your eggs and put the shrimp in the middle of the eggs before you put the egg loop around the entire bait or "sew" the hook up the tail on the hook after the eggs are in the egg loop. You can add a piece of yarn right above the hook as an added attractant to hold scent and helps it stay in their mouth a bit little longer sometimes. Chartruese or Red yarn has always worked for me. Shrimp oil of your choice also gives them a nice oil slick to find.
Spendy I know, but don't be afraid to give them a pretty good size bait sometimes in tidewater. The rain was starting to bring em' up river yesterday.
Don't rip on every little tick tick or almost down. ALL your eggs will be gone soon. Let it go down, it will go down if it is a real fish.
Move your bait away from the solid tick tick's or your bait will be gone anyway from the bullheads or smolts. (And yes, sometimes this is a lite biting fish, but not, more than it is) You decide after you rip a couple times, if the bobber is not buried.
Use as small as bobber as you can, that still floats your weight and bait. I use the
one ounce variety.
Stew can net a hot fish! My local hole "buddies" brow beat me [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] into letting a nice bronze buck go. Did not need the meat, so let it go make babies. We saw a huge 45-50 buck landed as well. Being good citizens around us, they let that one go to be great breeding stock too.
Rick
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