Hot Shots

Cool Texan · 11-29-2002, 06:10 PM

While "fishing" on the Alsea today, I realized that there was nothing to catch and started experimenting with a Hot Shot for when the day comes that I buy a drift boat. I hooked it up, put it in the current, down she went, wiggle wiggle, then turned sideways and back to the top riding upside down. I am assuming that I hooked it up wrong (its either that or Steelhead are really dumb fish and will go for a top trolling lure)....so...what is the proper method? I was on the bank when trying which I realize is not the place to use them, but had a slot of steady water that i would let line go straight down, as if I were in a boat in the current.

Lockjaw · 11-29-2002, 06:44 PM

Cool Texan, you need to tune the plug. If your plug runs to the right ,ajust the screw on head of the plug to the left, just a little at a time. :smile: its not hard.

L J

Plum Crazy · 11-29-2002, 07:23 PM

C.T.,
If the Hot Shot starts to get into slow or slack H20 they are floaters and will rise. I like to put a small split shot about 2' up line for the junk like leaves that can mess up a good fish lure. Keep the line taughnt and watch the tip it sould be working. Also try a Side Planner I hear they work o.k. until you buy the boat.
Fire

SteelieSteve · 11-29-2002, 08:19 PM

Tex no boat yet? So far your safe in that there hasn't been much water to float a boat in but it's gotta rain soon. :tongue:

KingFisher85 · 11-29-2002, 09:10 PM

Other then using hot shots, try using wiggle warts. I do what you tried doing off the bank all the time with wiggle warts and they work just fine.

Bounty Hunter · 11-29-2002, 09:56 PM

I too have yet to master the art of any plug except kwickfish or flatfish. I've been after this for three years now, and I have no confidence in my hot shot, wiggle wart, or for that matter blue fox abilities. Don't think it's the boat either, because I have 3. I have to use worms, jigs, eggs, kwickfish or spoons to get anything going. I've seen a fish hit a wart at Drano, but there were 200 that day that didn't get hit. :depressed:

Cool Texan · 11-30-2002, 09:45 AM

Steelie Steve, yeah, no boat yet. I was going to look at a boat last weekend, but got bit by a spider in Boston the week before and was laid up all weekend. Still in pain a week+ later. Since then, that boat sold. There is another boat in Lebanon (I am outside of Corvallis today), but it is a 48" width, and I think the folks on here have convinced me that 54" is the way to go.

I have the green light...I have the cash. Its just a matter of finding the right boat for the right price I guess. Even still, I've never even been in a drift boat, never rowed one, etc...so I am flying blind till either I just buy one, or some kind soul offers me a seat in theirs so I can check it out in action. (shameless and transparent plug for an empty seat...but whenever I get a boat I'll have open seats all the time, and will gladly offer them up). :tongue: