Freshen my memory: plugs n' stuff

[Pete]

Zukers, hoochies, Cedars, Slapsticks, Rapalas, Crystal Minnows ... Is it the action or the motion? The color or the flash? The depth? The noise and commotion? What makes for a good charlie bait? Is it ok if it skips out of the crest of the waves, or do I want it to stay down? How far down? Should it spiral in the water, or chug like a popper? Injured bait fish, or healthy one running away? How much does size matter?

[Uglygreen]

Pete

You must buy and bring at least two of everything... hehehe

No, it is different every day I have gone. Sometimes you cant go wrong 10 or 20 feet down, other times the surface is the ticket. Sometimes I will put a spinglo on the mainline just above the leader to spin, flash and cause a big splash and bubble trail on the surface. other times it seems faster is better, or slower on some days. Also how much line is out can matter. Somedays 100-150 is good, some days 600+ is the only thing that works. On the cloudy days the darker colors are better, on the sunny days the lighter colors work good.

The best tactic is to go on a day with multiple boats with a good represinitive sample of tackel and find and work the fish with other boats till someone hits the magic combo and shares with all.

Sometimes there must be just a little thing that is hard to figure... On thursday I was working a spot with another Ifisher out of depoe bay. Every time through this (small) spot (marked on the gps) I hooked up a fish...
The other boat using the same tactics and tackel on the same spot at the same time could not seem to get a biter to take.... It was strange, they watched me nail seven or eight fish in a row and hit the same spot probably twice as many times as I did and couldnt get a hookup, couldnt tell why, probably some little thing that no one would think of... or they had a bananna on the boat??

Anyhow they are really easy to catch.....except when they are impossible>

UG.