Ronnie wrote in
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On Jan 27, 9:50*pm, RichZ
wrote:
On 1/27/2010 11:06 AM, Ronnie wrote:

If you are faced with those conditions, what would you do?

I tend to not worry about the visibility. Some of my best winter
fishing in muddy conditions has been with smoke grubs and the like.
But my most reliable approach is a black, 1 oz jig. I like to feel it
hit the bottom hard, and never move it more than a few inches from
the bottom, all through the retrieve.

Find the area with deepest water least affected by current. Then use
a heavy, solid black jig, fished tediously slow and very tight to
cover and/or something vertical. Try to scrape the bottom as far into
the creases at the base of objects as possible.

Thanks - I will try a heavier jig. I have usually done the opposite,
using a very light jig for a slow fall, but your method makes sense
in low visibility water. I will get a chance to try it a week from
Sunday in my next tournament.

Ronnie

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Hey Ronnie,

Well we don't fish much here in the winter unless you like sitting on
the ice ;-) Not me...... But in the the Spring with conditions like you
are describing I remember a tournament on a day like you are describing.
Except it rained like a sob. We tried everything. The pond was pretty
shallow with an average depth of about 7 - 8. One cove with plenty of
large rocks at the entrance. Tea stained water like you described with
jigs disappearing after a few inches. Usually we throw 1/8 oz black jig
with pumpkin green and black fleck grub trailer in shallow water. That
day we could only find a few shorts after working that cove and plenty
of shore line with some brush and smaller rocks. It then started to rain
so hard we could hardly see each other from one end of the boat to
another. It was the last hour so we decided to go work the mouth of the
cove around the big rocks. My brother changed to a 1/4 oz black jig and
changed the trailer to a black pac a chunk. We banged 3 keepers between
2 and 4 1/2 pounds and won that tournament. Many zero's that day from
the rest of the field.

The next year at the same pond we tried the same game with no luck. The
guy that won did so at the same spot using 5" green senko's with black
flake... Go figure....

It's very difficult with a slow bite to figure what they want. Sometimes
we get stubborn and only want to throw our confidence baits but it goes
to show you have to be flexible and try different stuff to get the bite
on. BTW I'm no expert, I just get lucky once in a while ;-) Mostly when
it doesn't count when I'm just fishing by myself.............


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