Lure of the Month / bi-week, bi-weekly curious - Part Deaux

[eskimo]

Originally Posted by numbskull

Trolling is an art, all in itself. It is strange how dragging plugs has fallen out of favor (probably because it is so hard to present them well). It is worth keeping in mind, however, that two of the very largest striped bass ever caught (Cinto's #73 and that @ #75 fish in Md last year) hit trolled plugs.

Maybe Eskimo can chime in, he does well dragging big plugs.

As much fun as it is, its not hard to believe trolling swimming plugs has fallen out of favor. Far from being a part of the elite group of guys who troll plugs I've spent some time doing it. The few times I use the boat is exclusively to swim plugs for a night tide.

Speed itself probably took away a lot of the hype from trolling swimming plugs. If your trolling plugs in a rip and going as slow as you need to be you almost have no control over the boat. This is where a tiller shines. You can just put the plug along side of the boat before shooting and see that the boat is moving way to fast.

I've had friends say that they only did well going up tide yet nothing going down tide and although there are nights that seem that way its the fact that they were going slower against the tide.

This paired with knowing how deep the plug is and what it's doing will make a lot of people think that it's not as effective as a jig, tree, tube etc.