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How to fish with lots of submerged trees
I bought a trolling motor for my inflation boat and a Humminbird
Smartcast fish finder and went out fishing for the first time over the July 4 weekend. We got to a place where the fish finder find so many fishes under/around an area with many sub-merged trees. And we saw 2 big basses jumped out of the water. But everytime we tried, we always ended hook the trees. And the boat kept moving by the water current and I need to power the trolling motor to slowing move back. I'd appreciate any help or pointers. Eric. |
How to fish with lots of submerged trees
I haven't ever tried fishing with a submerged tree...sorry...;-)
"Eric" wrote in message om... I bought a trolling motor for my inflation boat and a Humminbird Smartcast fish finder and went out fishing for the first time over the July 4 weekend. We got to a place where the fish finder find so many fishes under/around an area with many sub-merged trees. And we saw 2 big basses jumped out of the water. But everytime we tried, we always ended hook the trees. And the boat kept moving by the water current and I need to power the trolling motor to slowing move back. I'd appreciate any help or pointers. Eric. |
How to fish with lots of submerged trees
An inflatable would not be my first choice for a boat, but... if the water
is not very deep you may be able to use a long rod or pole stuck into the bottom to tie to. Other wise you will have to anchor if you want o stay in one spot. I personally prefer to use my trolling motor in ym bass boat to keep me moving around likely locations to fish. As to what to throw. I bounce crank baits, off of submerged trees all the time. Sometimes I will hang up on one, but I have only lost one this year that I couldn't get out. Some of the guys prefer to run a spinnerbait thorugh the trees and bump them over branches. I have had some luck doing this. With crank baits and spinner baits both I have had a number of bites just after I come over a branch. Both baits work fairly well in submerged grass as well with a spinner bait being a little easier to tear through the grass. Personally I can adjust the depth of a crank bait by as much as a couple feet by how fast I retireve it and the attitude of the rod when I am cranking it in. Another bait that is good in grass, but not usualy used in trees is a rattle trap. It tends to hang up a lot more than lipped crank bait, but there are a couple of rattle trap type baits that have a small lip or ridge on either side of the head. Don't recall which ones as I don't tend to use a lipless crank bait in trees myself. I do like them for grass. Another couple of baits that can produce fish in trees are light weighted ( I like 1/16 oz) texas rigged worms cast out and dropped down through the branches. I like a thinner worm matched to the water color for this slow presentation. With translucent colors selected over solid colors in clear or stained water. A wacky senko works for this as well, but I defiitely use a weedless rigged hook for it. I hate the wire weedguard hooks. Warren turned me onto the w.w.hook by reaction innovations for wacky rigging. I like a Tru-Turn style hook by Daiichi for the t-rigged worm. When dropping it through those branches I like the point burried deep in the worm to reduce snags. The cam action of that hook helps me get a few more hook sets. -- Public Fishing & Boating Forums Fishing & Boating Link Index www.YumaBassMan.com "Eric" wrote in message om... I bought a trolling motor for my inflation boat and a Humminbird Smartcast fish finder and went out fishing for the first time over the July 4 weekend. We got to a place where the fish finder find so many fishes under/around an area with many sub-merged trees. And we saw 2 big basses jumped out of the water. But everytime we tried, we always ended hook the trees. And the boat kept moving by the water current and I need to power the trolling motor to slowing move back. I'd appreciate any help or pointers. Eric. |
How to fish with lots of submerged trees
anchor up texas rig a worm and be done with it
"Bob La Londe" wrote in message ... An inflatable would not be my first choice for a boat, but... if the water is not very deep you may be able to use a long rod or pole stuck into the bottom to tie to. Other wise you will have to anchor if you want o stay in one spot. I personally prefer to use my trolling motor in ym bass boat to keep me moving around likely locations to fish. As to what to throw. I bounce crank baits, off of submerged trees all the time. Sometimes I will hang up on one, but I have only lost one this year that I couldn't get out. Some of the guys prefer to run a spinnerbait thorugh the trees and bump them over branches. I have had some luck doing this. With crank baits and spinner baits both I have had a number of bites just after I come over a branch. Both baits work fairly well in submerged grass as well with a spinner bait being a little easier to tear through the grass. Personally I can adjust the depth of a crank bait by as much as a couple feet by how fast I retireve it and the attitude of the rod when I am cranking it in. Another bait that is good in grass, but not usualy used in trees is a rattle trap. It tends to hang up a lot more than lipped crank bait, but there are a couple of rattle trap type baits that have a small lip or ridge on either side of the head. Don't recall which ones as I don't tend to use a lipless crank bait in trees myself. I do like them for grass. Another couple of baits that can produce fish in trees are light weighted ( I like 1/16 oz) texas rigged worms cast out and dropped down through the branches. I like a thinner worm matched to the water color for this slow presentation. With translucent colors selected over solid colors in clear or stained water. A wacky senko works for this as well, but I defiitely use a weedless rigged hook for it. I hate the wire weedguard hooks. Warren turned me onto the w.w.hook by reaction innovations for wacky rigging. I like a Tru-Turn style hook by Daiichi for the t-rigged worm. When dropping it through those branches I like the point burried deep in the worm to reduce snags. The cam action of that hook helps me get a few more hook sets. -- Public Fishing & Boating Forums Fishing & Boating Link Index www.YumaBassMan.com "Eric" wrote in message om... I bought a trolling motor for my inflation boat and a Humminbird Smartcast fish finder and went out fishing for the first time over the July 4 weekend. We got to a place where the fish finder find so many fishes under/around an area with many sub-merged trees. And we saw 2 big basses jumped out of the water. But everytime we tried, we always ended hook the trees. And the boat kept moving by the water current and I need to power the trolling motor to slowing move back. I'd appreciate any help or pointers. Eric. |
How to fish with lots of submerged trees
I'm planning on trying some of the new "Timber Tiger" crankbaits
around wood and laydowns. They are designed to be somewhat snag free to be fished in heavy cover. You can check them out at http://www.yakimabait.com/products.phtml?id=7 I will post how they work as soon as I get a chance to try them. Heavy "alwaysfishking" wrote in message ... anchor up texas rig a worm and be done with it "Bob La Londe" wrote in message ... An inflatable would not be my first choice for a boat, but... if the water is not very deep you may be able to use a long rod or pole stuck into the bottom to tie to. Other wise you will have to anchor if you want o stay in one spot. I personally prefer to use my trolling motor in ym bass boat to keep me moving around likely locations to fish. As to what to throw. I bounce crank baits, off of submerged trees all the time. Sometimes I will hang up on one, but I have only lost one this year that I couldn't get out. Some of the guys prefer to run a spinnerbait thorugh the trees and bump them over branches. I have had some luck doing this. With crank baits and spinner baits both I have had a number of bites just after I come over a branch. Both baits work fairly well in submerged grass as well with a spinner bait being a little easier to tear through the grass. Personally I can adjust the depth of a crank bait by as much as a couple feet by how fast I retireve it and the attitude of the rod when I am cranking it in. Another bait that is good in grass, but not usualy used in trees is a rattle trap. It tends to hang up a lot more than lipped crank bait, but there are a couple of rattle trap type baits that have a small lip or ridge on either side of the head. Don't recall which ones as I don't tend to use a lipless crank bait in trees myself. I do like them for grass. Another couple of baits that can produce fish in trees are light weighted ( I like 1/16 oz) texas rigged worms cast out and dropped down through the branches. I like a thinner worm matched to the water color for this slow presentation. With translucent colors selected over solid colors in clear or stained water. A wacky senko works for this as well, but I defiitely use a weedless rigged hook for it. I hate the wire weedguard hooks. Warren turned me onto the w.w.hook by reaction innovations for wacky rigging. I like a Tru-Turn style hook by Daiichi for the t-rigged worm. When dropping it through those branches I like the point burried deep in the worm to reduce snags. The cam action of that hook helps me get a few more hook sets. -- Public Fishing & Boating Forums Fishing & Boating Link Index www.YumaBassMan.com "Eric" wrote in message om... I bought a trolling motor for my inflation boat and a Humminbird Smartcast fish finder and went out fishing for the first time over the July 4 weekend. We got to a place where the fish finder find so many fishes under/around an area with many sub-merged trees. And we saw 2 big basses jumped out of the water. But everytime we tried, we always ended hook the trees. And the boat kept moving by the water current and I need to power the trolling motor to slowing move back. I'd appreciate any help or pointers. Eric. |
How to fish with lots of submerged trees
I'm planning on trying some of the new "Timber Tiger" crankbaits
around wood and laydowns. They are designed to be somewhat snag free to be fished in heavy cover. You can check them out at http://www.yakimabait.com/products.phtml?id=7 I will post how they work as soon as I get a chance to try them. Heavy "alwaysfishking" wrote in message ... anchor up texas rig a worm and be done with it "Bob La Londe" wrote in message ... An inflatable would not be my first choice for a boat, but... if the water is not very deep you may be able to use a long rod or pole stuck into the bottom to tie to. Other wise you will have to anchor if you want o stay in one spot. I personally prefer to use my trolling motor in ym bass boat to keep me moving around likely locations to fish. As to what to throw. I bounce crank baits, off of submerged trees all the time. Sometimes I will hang up on one, but I have only lost one this year that I couldn't get out. Some of the guys prefer to run a spinnerbait thorugh the trees and bump them over branches. I have had some luck doing this. With crank baits and spinner baits both I have had a number of bites just after I come over a branch. Both baits work fairly well in submerged grass as well with a spinner bait being a little easier to tear through the grass. Personally I can adjust the depth of a crank bait by as much as a couple feet by how fast I retireve it and the attitude of the rod when I am cranking it in. Another bait that is good in grass, but not usualy used in trees is a rattle trap. It tends to hang up a lot more than lipped crank bait, but there are a couple of rattle trap type baits that have a small lip or ridge on either side of the head. Don't recall which ones as I don't tend to use a lipless crank bait in trees myself. I do like them for grass. Another couple of baits that can produce fish in trees are light weighted ( I like 1/16 oz) texas rigged worms cast out and dropped down through the branches. I like a thinner worm matched to the water color for this slow presentation. With translucent colors selected over solid colors in clear or stained water. A wacky senko works for this as well, but I defiitely use a weedless rigged hook for it. I hate the wire weedguard hooks. Warren turned me onto the w.w.hook by reaction innovations for wacky rigging. I like a Tru-Turn style hook by Daiichi for the t-rigged worm. When dropping it through those branches I like the point burried deep in the worm to reduce snags. The cam action of that hook helps me get a few more hook sets. -- Public Fishing & Boating Forums Fishing & Boating Link Index www.YumaBassMan.com "Eric" wrote in message om... I bought a trolling motor for my inflation boat and a Humminbird Smartcast fish finder and went out fishing for the first time over the July 4 weekend. We got to a place where the fish finder find so many fishes under/around an area with many sub-merged trees. And we saw 2 big basses jumped out of the water. But everytime we tried, we always ended hook the trees. And the boat kept moving by the water current and I need to power the trolling motor to slowing move back. I'd appreciate any help or pointers. Eric. |
How to fish with lots of submerged trees
"Kevin Hare" wrote in message om... I'm planning on trying some of the new "Timber Tiger" crankbaits around wood and laydowns. They are designed to be somewhat snag free to be fished in heavy cover. You can check them out at http://www.yakimabait.com/products.phtml?id=7 I will post how they work as soon as I get a chance to try them. I've used the Timber Tiger crankbaits and they work pretty good for coming through branches. How well they catch fish has yet to be determined, because I've only caught one pike on one, but they look pretty good in the water and they do come through wood all right. My favorite baits for working treetops, brushpiles and laydowns is the soft plastic jerkbaits like Zoom Flukes and FinS minnows and Senkos. They're dynamite under boat docks too! -- Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers http://www.outdoorfrontiers.com G & S Guide Service and Custom Rods http://www.herefishyfishy.com |
How to fish with lots of submerged trees
"Kevin Hare" wrote in message om... I'm planning on trying some of the new "Timber Tiger" crankbaits around wood and laydowns. They are designed to be somewhat snag free to be fished in heavy cover. You can check them out at http://www.yakimabait.com/products.phtml?id=7 I will post how they work as soon as I get a chance to try them. I've used the Timber Tiger crankbaits and they work pretty good for coming through branches. How well they catch fish has yet to be determined, because I've only caught one pike on one, but they look pretty good in the water and they do come through wood all right. My favorite baits for working treetops, brushpiles and laydowns is the soft plastic jerkbaits like Zoom Flukes and FinS minnows and Senkos. They're dynamite under boat docks too! -- Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers http://www.outdoorfrontiers.com G & S Guide Service and Custom Rods http://www.herefishyfishy.com |
How to fish with lots of submerged trees
Tom Seward, the guy who designed the Timber Tiger is a friend of mine.
There's probably not a better crank bait theorist in the country. The big, deep diving tiger, fished on heavy mono (like 25 lb big game) is incredibly good in nasty laydowns. RichZ© www.richz.com/fishing |
How to fish with lots of submerged trees
Tom Seward, the guy who designed the Timber Tiger is a friend of mine.
There's probably not a better crank bait theorist in the country. The big, deep diving tiger, fished on heavy mono (like 25 lb big game) is incredibly good in nasty laydowns. RichZ© www.richz.com/fishing |
How to fish with lots of submerged trees
Hmmm.... incredibly good in nasty laydowns. Dang I just know I can catch fish on crankbaits...can someone tell tell the fish for me?..jeez the poconos must be rubbing off on me I just typed "Dang" "RichZ" wrote in message ... Tom Seward, the guy who designed the Timber Tiger is a friend of mine. There's probably not a better crank bait theorist in the country. The big, deep diving tiger, fished on heavy mono (like 25 lb big game) is incredibly good in nasty laydowns. RichZ© www.richz.com/fishing |
How to fish with lots of submerged trees
Hmmm.... incredibly good in nasty laydowns. Dang I just know I can catch fish on crankbaits...can someone tell tell the fish for me?..jeez the poconos must be rubbing off on me I just typed "Dang" "RichZ" wrote in message ... Tom Seward, the guy who designed the Timber Tiger is a friend of mine. There's probably not a better crank bait theorist in the country. The big, deep diving tiger, fished on heavy mono (like 25 lb big game) is incredibly good in nasty laydowns. RichZ© www.richz.com/fishing |
How to fish with lots of submerged trees
Some seasons, it seems like I get on a crankbait binge and catch a lot of
fish on them. Other seasons, I go for months without throwing one, much less catching a fish on one. I guess if the shad rap bite is strong in the spring, I get into crank mode. This year, I don't recall catching a fish on a shad rap. It's been all jerkbaits for me as far as hard baits are concerned. If I fish the Hudson and/or Lillinonah a lot in the summer, I use cranks a lot there. But I'm not fishing tourneys any more, and I don't go over to the Hudson much with the little boat until the fall, when I can stay in the creeks. Not sure why I haven't been to Lilli yet this year. Oh yeah... Champlain. That's why. RichZ© www.richz.com/fishing |
How to fish with lots of submerged trees
Some seasons, it seems like I get on a crankbait binge and catch a lot of
fish on them. Other seasons, I go for months without throwing one, much less catching a fish on one. I guess if the shad rap bite is strong in the spring, I get into crank mode. This year, I don't recall catching a fish on a shad rap. It's been all jerkbaits for me as far as hard baits are concerned. If I fish the Hudson and/or Lillinonah a lot in the summer, I use cranks a lot there. But I'm not fishing tourneys any more, and I don't go over to the Hudson much with the little boat until the fall, when I can stay in the creeks. Not sure why I haven't been to Lilli yet this year. Oh yeah... Champlain. That's why. RichZ© www.richz.com/fishing |
How to fish with lots of submerged trees
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How to fish with lots of submerged trees
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How to fish with lots of submerged trees
(QUAKEnSHAKE) wrote in message ...
QUOTE: From: (Eric) I bought a trolling motor for my inflation boat and a Humminbird Smartcast fish finder and went out fishing for the first time over the July 4 weekend. :QUOTE Eric how do you like the Smartcast? The MCSport store near me has them on sale for $99 I was thinking about giving it a try. I like it very much. The info it gives is so rich (beyond imagination as a shore fishman.) It make me wonder why I waste so much time shore fishing for nothing (since nothing is there). Eric. |
How to fish with lots of submerged trees
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