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ivanputski · 07-27-2007, 09:57 PM

I was out in the boat this evening, water was like glass... i spotted multiple schools of schoolie bass and blues feeding for about 2 hours... I tried poppers, needle eels, deadly #^&#^&#^&#^&s, and 4" rigged plastic shad... I caught 6 fish when I should have caught 30... One blue spit up TINY bait fish... about 1" in length and very thin. (not peanut bunker) My question is, What should I have been using? My only thought is using a 1-2" sluggo or fin-s with 2 feet of leader, attached to a 1-2 ounce trolling sinker as a casting weight... so when retreived, the tiny lure trails behind the trolling sinker. would this be effective, or is this a completey bootleg idea that wont work... I like using a 1 oz deadly #^&#^&#^&#^& because they cast so far with braid, but the fish just were not taking it.... any help would be appreciated.

07-27-2007, 09:57 PM	#1
ivanputski Pete K. iTrader: (0) Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 2,953	when tiny bait is in, what lure? I was out in the boat this evening, water was like glass... i spotted multiple schools of schoolie bass and blues feeding for about 2 hours... I tried poppers, needle eels, deadly #^&#^&#^&#^&s, and 4" rigged plastic shad... I caught 6 fish when I should have caught 30... One blue spit up TINY bait fish... about 1" in length and very thin. (not peanut bunker) My question is, What should I have been using? My only thought is using a 1-2" sluggo or fin-s with 2 feet of leader, attached to a 1-2 ounce trolling sinker as a casting weight... so when retreived, the tiny lure trails behind the trolling sinker. would this be effective, or is this a completey bootleg idea that wont work... I like using a 1 oz deadly #^&#^&#^&#^& because they cast so far with braid, but the fish just were not taking it.... any help would be appreciated.