Hey I was wondering if anyone here uses this technique or has another name for it. I mainly use it when using either a senko or a jig.  This is when you cast your lure over a tree branch of something hanging over the water and repetedly dip and dunk the lure in and out of the water until you get a strike on the lure.  I have caught many largemouths using this technique including a 4 pounder on a pond where i usually either catch tiny fish or huge ones.

Thanks

nope, never used it, but i'm going to give it a try

yeah you should, i mean i usually don't go out of my way to use this technique, but if i have a rough cast sometimes it works.

sounds like a great way to break your line :-/

my line has never broken doing this and most of the time i ws using 10lb mono

Once you get a fish on, how do you get it off the branch?  

usually when i do this it is stuck on the very end of the branch so the weight of the fish makes the line come off the branch, but in one or two cases i have had to bring the boat or canoe over to get the line off of the branch

I call it my Airborne Fish Technique. It is great in postspawn or high water on one of the lakes I fish regularly. I usually go with heavy  braid and pick and choose the limbs I do it over. When the fish hits I drill it as hard as I can to either brake the branch or limb by the braid cutting through it, or so the fish comes over the limb.

i have also found it great for postspawn fishing

tin do you use any other lures besides the senko and the jig?

Nope only the jig. Either I pitch over the limbs and give let the jig fall, or I stop it when it goes over and just let it sit on top of the water and dangle it around. It usually does a circle motion that the fish haven't ever seen so they just come over and suck it under or you get an aggresive topwater type strike.

ok

Is the branch you're talking about in or out of the water - I will often pitch into a brush pile and use a submerged branch as the pivot point for jigging - the only time I do this with a branch out of the water is when I screw up and try to look like that was what I intended all along

I've done this intentionally cast after cast for over an hour and probably boated nearly 50 fish.  I was using a hollow bodied frog (snag proof) and would only cast it over branches that were small enough to break when I set the hook.  Worked pretty good.

Whodda thunk it?

Sounds ridiculous to me, but whatever floats your boat! :

 I have been in this situation many times unintentionaly. I have played the lure in and out of the water  but never got a strike doing it. Maybe I need to play it a little while longer. Last year my line caught a large high branch and wraped 3 times and I could not get it loose. Luckily the tree had been dead long enough I was able to rock the branch untill it broke off and come crashing down into the water scaring off any bass within 300 foot im sure. Guess that would have been my PB Stickfish??

 I have been in this situation many times unintentionaly. I have played the lure in and out of the water  but never got a strike doing it. Maybe I need to play it a little while longer. Last year my line caught a large high branch and wraped 3 times and I could not get it loose. Luckily the tree had been dead long enough I was able to rock the branch untill it broke off and come crashing down into the water scaring off any bass within 300 foot im sure. Guess that would have been my PB Stickfish??

X2,Now I got a new piece of cover so its all good

I personally would not try to do this. It will put a whole bunch of nicks in your line and has a chance of snapping your line if you hook a nice size fish. Also the odds of getting your lure tangled up is high to. I am sure if it got tangled and no way out of it you would probably cut your line then you become one of those people that I swear at that liter there line.

I do not see the problem working the senko normally rather then taking unnecessary risks.

I thought I saw one of those japanese dudes do it on the Imakatsu website with a small spider looking lure.

Edit: Here it is

http://www.imakatsu.co.jp/movie/index.html

sixth from the top. He just flips it over a very small twig or something.

I have used this technique with success. I'm not sure is the lure is all that important, but the best seems to be a frog. Pros out west actually have a name for using the frog for this technique, I'll try to find the article and let you guys know whats its called.

ok but what type of frog, buzz frogs or the dean rojas frog

Both types of frogs will work. I like the hollow body "Rojas" frogs the best.

oh cool, this is kinda off topic but what is your flipping combo, mines a quantum accurist and an all star select

This is also a little off topic but,

One time I cast a rattlin vibe really far near the shore and the wind blew my line over a small limb. I yanked the lure as it was hanging over the branch and the branch broke off making a huge splash. The second that rattlin vibe hit the water I got a hit and caught a 2 pounder. That was weird.

I've used this presentation underwater, but never above