12-11-2006, 05:15 PM
I recorded about a half-hour of Aqua-Vu footage on my video camera Saturday while at Huntington. It's amazing what a look at the habits of the fish can do to help in your lure presentation.
Those tigers would come in fast with aggressive jigging, but liked the jig movement slowed before taking it. At times we'd drop all the way to the bottom, feel up at a medium speed about 10 feet off the bottom where the camera was hanging, and the just stop. You could see them flying up after it, and often they'd inhale it and move off liked they'd raided the cookie jar. Some of the more aggressive hits were actually just taking the head of the jig in their mouths and shaking the way a dog does with an old sneaker or something. Other times they did the same with the tail of a Whatta-Cricket, for example, never grabbing the business-end of the hook itself.
When I lowered the camera all the way to the bottom, we watched little insects scooting about. The tigers would come in and violently sweep away with their tails, throwing silt into the water like a dust cloud, and then come back quickly and dive head first into the mud.
What a fun thing to watch! And it certainly helped our catch rate too.
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Those tigers would come in fast with aggressive jigging, but liked the jig movement slowed before taking it. At times we'd drop all the way to the bottom, feel up at a medium speed about 10 feet off the bottom where the camera was hanging, and the just stop. You could see them flying up after it, and often they'd inhale it and move off liked they'd raided the cookie jar. Some of the more aggressive hits were actually just taking the head of the jig in their mouths and shaking the way a dog does with an old sneaker or something. Other times they did the same with the tail of a Whatta-Cricket, for example, never grabbing the business-end of the hook itself.
When I lowered the camera all the way to the bottom, we watched little insects scooting about. The tigers would come in and violently sweep away with their tails, throwing silt into the water like a dust cloud, and then come back quickly and dive head first into the mud.
What a fun thing to watch! And it certainly helped our catch rate too.
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