Flat calm and hot
From what I've read, the conditions encountered on the LadyO when she is like my title, are not a welcome sign. Esp. when it's late August.
I love those type of days, cause I can usually do fish.
So next time you're hating the flat water and the heat, try this:
Tie Silver Bullets on all your lines and run them back 100 to 125 feet. I don't use counters, and go by passes of the level winder. I park 2 riggers and stack on the 2 outboard rigs with 12 feet separating the lines.
Forget about where your weights are, the counters are pretty much going to be useless because the next step is to bang your throttle till you hit fish. The last time I used this tactic, we'd done fish the previous day in 220-250 FOW with 10 pound balls under 80-100 feet of cable. I kept the counters in that range, but it would take another boat on our 6 to see the balls. We were reading 4-5 mph on the GPS and were going too fast for the slow meter. The cables were hitting the water at better than 45degrees, and the balls were way outside of the cone. Now you can call me full of crap, but did I mention I catch fish doing this.
So next time you're hating the flat water, try this. It's worked for me on several occasions.
A fellow Selkirk Campground rat followed my advice, but he hates J-plugs. He did do fish with NK silver mags. The two things in common were silver and speed. Perhaps other plugs and spoons will work, but I never felt the need to mess with other colors.
Do not try and run a dipsy. And you may want to go back to your old offshore releases. When a fish hits, it's violent. Sloppy hooks sets are common and you will have 3 fish on just long enough to make the click talk for every fish you net, but it beats the snot out of drifting and dreaming. Tight releases are begging for an over stressed line.
Tight Lines
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