elkhunter7x6

It has happened to of all of in some facit of our lives . Dont sweat it Mac, is water under the bridge as far as I am concerned.

Mac I believe in constructive critisism. I just thought you got a little carried away. I enjoyed your information, just not the rest of the non-sence.

Mac it seems to me that you have gotten a little carried away. If you go back and read the original question redtail simply asked fish to cast ratio. There was no spacific criteria as to size of fish,size of lake , tourney rules,ect. (I assumed bass was the species). Just simply fish to cast ratio. Now as unbelievable as the published #ers by RW may seem to you, does it really warrant the bashing. After all you are boasting being able to catch 1:1 ratio on you terms. Maybe you can, I can not. Howeever, I do think that the numbers that you put together for you criteria was well thought out fairly accurate for a public lake. But some folks do have access to above average fishing holes and better ratios are possible. Perhaps you should have started a new thread instead of bashing a good man. I am new to the forum,(not too fishing) and personnaly feel that RW makes this Forum a more informative and friendly place to hang out. Mac if talking about fishing makes you this angry perhaps you should find something else to talk about.

It was not my intention to offend you. I was merely saying that a graph can be a very useful tool to a fisherman if used properly just the same as a trolling motor is a tool, a map is a tool , and a boat is a tool. None of these are necessary to catch fish. But all of them can help too catch fish. Topo maps help to get you in the right vacinity. Watching where other fisherman are can help you locate places, but do you really trust that they know what their doing. My fishing time is too precious to waste on dead water (which is 90% of the water in all lakes). I personally like to use maps and graphs to key in on the 10% of productive water. Let me give you an example of a graph catching fish. I took three friends fishing on a lake on 6-7-05. Three days prior to this fishing trip I had located a large concentration of fish holding on bottom structure in 22-26' of water 400yrds from the bank. These fish were in three schools occupying a space about 40 yards wide by 250 yards long. Using my depth finderI would position the boat up wind of these fish and allow the wind to dift us thru the fish using the the depth finder and trolling motor to keep on track. From 1:00pm- 5-00pm we caught over 150 bass.

Bass fishing with out a depth finder? Id rather fish with my eyes closed. Bass can be found anywhere there is water BUT, certain types of structure will hold large numbers of bass. Since I am unable to see what the bottom of the lake looks like with the eyes that god gave me , I use a depth finder to locate these places. If you are a bank beater soley then a graph is not neccessary but if you like to fish bottom structure, humps,creek channels ect. a graph will help you locate these .

Yesterday my fishing partner was c-rigging when he caught a dd22. Hooked to the dd-22 was a 3' piece of line with about a 2lb catfish attached.

Carthage. Hows the fishing on wrightpatman

Deep water structure.

In shallower water pegging or split shoting with smaller weight works fine. However when the water warms up and the fish move to deeper structure (15' and deeper) you will want a larger weight. A larger weight will sink faster ,getting your bait down to the depth that the fish are holding quicker, and will enable you to stay in contact with the bottom and have more feel for whats down there. A 1/2-1 ounce weight is pretty common for c-rigging. When pegging a texas rig or using a split shot the fish will have to pull hard enough to move the weight before you feel it. With a traditional style c-rig ,using a slip sinker, swivel and leader, when the fish gives a tug on the line, the line will slide thru the sinker enableing you to feel the bite without the the fish having to move the weight. THis makes the traditional style c-rig much more sensitive to a bite.

N.East Texas. I fish Brandy Branch, Monticello,Fork, Caddo and occasionally Rayburn and Toledo Bend.

I fish soft plastic almost exclusively. With c-rigging 20+ water this time of the year. One day most of the fish I catch will be hooked in the jaw and the next day a large percentage of them will be hooked deep. With a combination of the before mentioned technique of feed line thru gill and removing barb from gamagutsu G-lock hook, I never leave a hook in a fish and rarely injure the fish. Even without the barb it is unusual for me too lose a fish with the G-lock hook.

Senkos fall flat with little to no spiral type motion, therefore line twist is not a problem when fishing them with a weight or without.