New presentations you want to Learn/improve in 2011 and WHY?

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Permalink Reply by D.J. LaRoche on December 30, 2010 at 9:14pm

I really need to make an honest effort on throwing jerkbaits.  I don't have a ton of confidence in them, but I know they can produce some big fish.  I would also like to go back to the tube a little more.  For some reason, I kind of stopped throwing it much.

Permalink Reply by Ronald Hobbs, Jr. on December 31, 2010 at 9:35am

Santa you have out done yourself! LOL

Santa Claus said:

Dear Aaron,

 

Ho Ho Ho, we both know,

Exactly what you're going to throw.

During the heat of summer or winter's snow,

It's a football head and dropshot show.

 

You're a Hawg Hunter through and through,

We know exactly what you're going to do,

From blast off until weigh-in at two,

You'll use two techniques, you know it's true.

 

You'll begin by dragging back and forth,

Across the P-Hole, then run up North.

No bites on the football head?  Not to worry,

The dropshot rod comes out in a hurry.

 

Shaking your little worm the rest of they day,

You call it fishing, I call it gay.

They should change the name of the Puyallup Club:

To "Masters of the Grub and Snub"

 

Happy New Year and all in fun!

 

Santa

Permalink Reply by Aaron Christel on December 31, 2010 at 10:12am

It's true, Santa is wathing.

Permalink Reply by Aaron Christel on December 31, 2010 at 11:12am

Watching...

Permalink Reply by Jordan Doucet on December 31, 2010 at 12:50pm

HAHA!!! Sounds like santa nailed not just the Hawg Hunters but 90% off the coasties!

Permalink Reply by RFatt16 on December 31, 2010 at 1:40pm

Santa you keep talkin all that smack, you better watch for the cookies i leave out next year.

Permalink Reply by Chad Simon on December 31, 2010 at 3:10pm

I left santa a beer, so I'm not worried. I'm going to fish more billed swimbaits, and hopefully can gain enough confidence to use them in tournaments. I feel most of our fish haven't seen a lot of billed swimbaits, so I think with the right presentation they could benefit in catching that kicker! I will also force myself to use more small tubes, and japanese baits that fish have rarely seen in certain situations. I will also try out the umbrella rig for smallmouth busting schools of baitfish in the river.

Permalink Reply by Ronald Hobbs, Jr. on January 1, 2011 at 9:08am

The umbrella rig is interesting concept..... I know they mostly troll them for stripers, are you plan on casting the rig or are you going to try to modify the rig so that you can cast it easier?

Chad Simon said:

I left santa a beer, so I'm not worried. I'm going to fish more billed swimbaits, and hopefully can gain enough confidence to use them in tournaments. I feel most of our fish haven't seen a lot of billed swimbaits, so I think with the right presentation they could benefit in catching that kicker! I will also force myself to use more small tubes, and japanese baits that fish have rarely seen in certain situations. I will also try out the umbrella rig for smallmouth busting schools of baitfish in the river.

Permalink Reply by Austin Heyer on January 1, 2011 at 1:28pm

I plan on getting more into punching and skipping jigs this year as well as more open water swimbaiting for smallies.

 

I look forward to fishing the big lakes more this year as well.

Permalink Reply by Willie Parsons on January 1, 2011 at 2:01pm

Junk fishing, after reading so much about how the pros breakdown new water I think it would benefit me to take this approach more this year. I have had success during certain times of the year with a certain presentation being the right one but I have also spent the better part of many days looking for an area where that technique will work instead of trying to find a way to make fish in any area bite.

 I started this year out trying to work the water column from the top down, it worked well until I thought I had it figured out, looking back I wish I would have continued to use that process as a starting point.

Start each day as a new day and leave history out of it to some extent.

Permalink Reply by Chad Simon on January 1, 2011 at 9:04pm

I don't plan on using a "true" umbrella rig, but instead a knock-off for casting. It will probably end up a bunch of tangled flukes, but we will see!

Ronald Hobbs, Jr. said:

The umbrella rig is interesting concept..... I know they mostly troll them for stripers, are you plan on casting the rig or are you going to try to modify the rig so that you can cast it easier?

Chad Simon said:

I left santa a beer, so I'm not worried. I'm going to fish more billed swimbaits, and hopefully can gain enough confidence to use them in tournaments. I feel most of our fish haven't seen a lot of billed swimbaits, so I think with the right presentation they could benefit in catching that kicker! I will also force myself to use more small tubes, and japanese baits that fish have rarely seen in certain situations. I will also try out the umbrella rig for smallmouth busting schools of baitfish in the river.

Permalink Reply by rzone on January 1, 2011 at 11:55pm

I plan to do a lot more fly fishing for smallmouth this year, tried it last year and it was a kick in the pants.

 

Going with one of these:

 

 http://www.sageflyfish.com/dyn_prodlist.php?k=242774

 

And an assortment of flies & poppers from here:

 

 http://www.flyfishusa.com/flies/bass-home.htm

 

I hit a few times on Roosevelt where the top water bite was nothing short of fantastic, one of those times a guy who works with me had a couple fly rods on the boat and we were trying it out. The fish were crushing those flies, it was addictive to say the least. I quickly threw out a couple regular top water lures and the fish were just not going for them like they were for those flies.

 

Other than that, I plan to really work on drop swimming technique, I did pretty good on it last year, but want to experiment with larger baits, and just spend more time on it this year.

 

 

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