I need to vent a little...hopefully someone can offer me some insight after too..
Last week I was fishing with tins and hooking up cast after cast. They were all a little under and just barely keeper size fish caught in the upperbay..they were all hanging around on the top of the water column eating small pogies and shiners or something..
OK heres my dilemma, around sunset-into dark hours i put on a black "rigged" sluggo and get only say 5or6 hits, all missed. The rest of the day I was skunked...I was retrieving the sluggo at pencil popper speed with short pauses in between. All hits came on the retrieval, not the pause.. The bass must have been nipping at the tails because none of the tails were "biten off by blues" and my rear hooks are set pretty far back...
I guess my question is why do they say bass go for the head all the time..I know the majority of the time they attack prey head first but, every single one of my "few fish" caught on sluggos have all hit the rear hook.
Am I just going to fast for them maybe..I dunno..frustrating I tell ya.. Do you all go fast and with lots of action and pauses inbetween (to keep it midcolumn) or prefer slower methods? I try to heed all of Mr. Mckenna's advice (he is the sluggo man) but damn...missing hits with rigged sluggos...(also, I dont fish anything quite as fast as these sluggos, except pencil poppers) maybe i am going a lil to fast?..I really want to dial these in b/c as steve has shown ..they work. Im sure more time spent on the water with them will help me dial them in..sorry, I need to vent a little..
