12-22-2006, 08:21 PM
[cool][#0000ff]I do a lot of vertical presentations, in water from only about six feet to as much as 60 feet. A lot of the vertical jigging I do is in water from 12 to 20 feet. I catch a lot of fish right below my tube.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]There have been times when fish will actually swim up off the bottom and hang in the shade of my tube. I have caught a bunch of fish over the years by dropping a jig straight down, with only a rod length of line and jiggling it a couple of times to get a strike.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]That is not only true of silly fish like perch, but trout as well. I have had some good sized trout follow in a retrieve and than hang around my tube long enough to get another cast out and hook the fish.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]On Pineview Reservoir I once had a huge school of bluegills, crappies and small bass come up out of the top of an underwater tree and surround my tube. All I could see were a thousand eyes. I was imagining the fish saying "Okay guys, on three we pull this guy under."[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]There have been times when fish will actually swim up off the bottom and hang in the shade of my tube. I have caught a bunch of fish over the years by dropping a jig straight down, with only a rod length of line and jiggling it a couple of times to get a strike.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]That is not only true of silly fish like perch, but trout as well. I have had some good sized trout follow in a retrieve and than hang around my tube long enough to get another cast out and hook the fish.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]On Pineview Reservoir I once had a huge school of bluegills, crappies and small bass come up out of the top of an underwater tree and surround my tube. All I could see were a thousand eyes. I was imagining the fish saying "Okay guys, on three we pull this guy under."[/#0000ff]
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