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You are pitching...what is your target?
I really like site fishing for largemouth. It's tough but I like how you can see them react. I notice that when I see one and I present my bait too close, they spook. If I pitch it a few feet off to their left or right they go and eat it often without hesitation.
This begs the question.... When you are pitching a jig or any bait, does it make sense to throw the bait exactly where you would think a bass is positioned? For example a reed point that has wind blowing into it, Or does it make sense to pitch your bait a foot or two left or right of where you think the fish is positioned?
After doing some site fishing the last couple years, I find it hard to believe that people aren't spooking a ton of fish by pitching to the wrong spot.
do you guys think about this, or do you just roll down the bank flipping and pitching at any irregularity you see?
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Permalink Reply by P.J. Koshi on
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I get what you are saying Jake, but I think to make the statement that you should not make pitches to places where you feel the bass may be sitting will hinder you more than pitching to those places as well as the places the bass is likely to travel to for a meal.
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Permalink Reply by Jake Anderson on
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Im with you Pj. Just trying to inspire some unique conversation that doesnt revolve around which brand of product we use.
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Permalink Reply by Marc Marcantonio on
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If I see vegetation move, I'm pitching directly onto it. I have no idea which way the bass is facing or moving, so I want my lure to be easy to sense; the closer to the bass the easier it is for the bass to know dinner has been delivered.
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Permalink Reply by Ronald Hobbs, Jr. on
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That guy must be a genius or extremely lucky!
Jake "The Snake" Anderson said:Thanks for the reply Don.
Pj, the site fishing point was a side note, not the focus of my question. If you site fished for 10 different cruising bass and casted on each ones head, i bet you'd be lucky to catch one, yet when we flip down a productive shoreline we try to put a jig right on top of where we think a fish will be sitting. We say things like "for every one i spook, i can get one to react) but we dont really know the real math.
My thought and question derives from an outting last year where i saw this wizard with a flipping stick literally call his bites before they happened because he saw the fish bump a reed from a few feet from his bait on its way to commit.
So he pitches, sees a reed move 2-3 feet off to the right, says..."im about to get bit", then does get bit, and lands 4lber. Does this multiple times in a 20 minute timeframe.
Meanwhile from back of boat, I am pitching to obvious targets, putting jig right on it, and catching nothing.
It had me wondering if putting the bait smack dab on the best spot is akin to dropping a finesse worm directly on top of a fish i can see... Which for me has proven to be a mistake. -
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For some reason for largemouth especially if you are fishing on the bank I feel that you get more bites pitching shallower tthan you think the fish is sitting... This comes from my youth when I would walk numerous ponds for hours and see bass positioned out from shore looking straight at the bank. I think bass like to trap their food and I think the shoreline is the best dead end for the food to be trapped. This makes sense to me!
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