Tap! Tap! Ugh!

There have been a few times when working a bait very very slowly across the
bottom I have gotten a very quick tap tap. Then nothing. I was using a
heavy fast rod in most of these cases. Usually with braid or flourocarbon.
Sensitivity is definitely not the issue. I am sure a fish picked up the
bait and then immediately spit it out. Those were the two taps I felt.
Basically in the same breath. What do you do? Leave it sit dead stick and
hope they will pick it up again? Keep moving the bait very very slowly?
Reel it in and cast back trying to cross the exact same spot again? Try a
different bait in the same place?

I know the ideal thing to have done was be more aware and hook the fish on
the first tap, but my reflexes just don't seem to be up to it. A couple
days those have been the only bites I have gotten. I'ld sure like to figure
out how to optimize my hook ups on fish that hit like that. When those are
the only bites I am getting the tend to be few and far between so it really
hurts to miss one.

Bob La Londe
www.YumaBassMan.com