Originally Posted by Bryan42 (Post 645384)

D-Bag

Originally Posted by selout (Post 645381)

Where can you purchase live shrimp in that area?


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Originally Posted by Saint (Post 645401)

Is that white boat that you were in on Wednesday your boat? Just trying to square up my pot licking strategy.

Originally Posted by revspiggles (Post 645421)

At the cove, how do you fish on the bottom? Slow retrieve with just jighead, or bullet weight a foot off, etc. I never had much luck at cove. But at hammock etc, great. just curious.

Originally Posted by Afishionado (Post 645498)

I use a 3-way swivel. Tie off main line to top swivel and about a 2 ft. leader on bottom swivel and put a weight on the bottom of it. I actually just use 2 split shots on the bottom. If it gets hung up bad on the oyster shells, they will pull off before breaking your line, and you can add or subtract weights according to the current. Tie off about an 8-12 inch leader to the side swivel and put your hook on it. I used a small treble hook last couple trips and find that I hooked and kept more fish on.

As far as how to fish it. If the current is pretty strong like it was last couple of trips, after you cast out, let it sink to the bottom and reel in the slack and just tightline it. You'll feel your weight bouncing along the bottom as the current pulls it. Just make sure you keep a tight line and you'll feel the bite. I actually caught 24 of the 26 fish the other day on the same treble hook and only lost 2 split shot fishing over an oyster reef. This setup works great, keeps your bait suspended off the bottom and rarely gets hung up. I find this setup is much better than a Carolina rig. You can buy the 3-way swivels at Academy.

Originally Posted by revspiggles (Post 645421)

At the cove, how do you fish on the bottom? Slow retrieve with just jighead, or bullet weight a foot off, etc. I never had much luck at cove. But at hammock etc, great. just curious.

Originally Posted by bgizzle (Post 645525)

The trout seem to go up go up and down in feeding depth. If you catch a few on a cork 2-3' and it shuts down then go drop shot rig and see. I rig up for both and try to find a pattern but usually they go down after sun comes up then when it starts warming up they'll come back towards the surface. If there is a lot of ppl around trolling fast I just take a cork rigged to be able to change depth quickly and set it deeper like 4' and have someone throwing a drop rig also. Or just slide one in the rod holder and watch it. I found the key is to be patient bc the patrol the reefs in the cove. Only found them stacked up on twice on perfect conditions.


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Originally Posted by bgizzle (Post 645612)

Seems to me that someone took a lil too much winstrawl this am....


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Originally Posted by bgizzle (Post 645612)

Seems to me that someone took a lil too much winstrawl this am.... I would say put that in your pipe and smoke it but seems like you do a good job smoking mine.... Thanks for the kind words, it's a compliment from someone of your stature!


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Originally Posted by Jadams (Post 645631)

Bottom line Bgizzle is moron

Originally Posted by Goooh (Post 645622)

Lol

Glad you roll with the punches and keep your signature, it's unfortunate that hacking at advice to another fisherman trying to learn has ran members off that post useful information. That's the whole point of the this forum, and hopefully it can keep that structure.

I like the increased participation and information coming from the growing VBay crowd on this site. If you trend the content, it's obvious that the bay portion of the site is nearly free of ego. Would like to see less of it from the Big Lake crowd, but if it's a master plan to keep people like us away from their side of the state then keep up the good work - us here in the middle will gladly accept the like minded fisherman that may have been pushed east on our waters, and not complain about the more arrogant types gravitating toward the west.

Come on over, the more we can help people be successful, the more young'ens we will have in the pool growing up in the right environment.

Originally Posted by wishin i was fishin (Post 645676)

Great response Gooh! I hope he was commenting in a joking manner...