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Hit rockport with a couple buddies today and the weather was good at least, cuz the fishing was slow. One on the ice, 13 inch standard generic rainbow and another that was lost at the hole. We had bites all day and i saw the fish on the flasher all day as they swam by, taking a quick nibble and disappearing. I tried to set the hook at least 50 times but they were sneaky little buggers and couldnt connect. Edges were solid when we went out but broken up a little with a little open water when we left hut not a problem.
Now here is my flasher theory...
More often than not i outfish my partners and get a lot more bites than the people immediately around me. I am usually the only one in my group using electronics (marcum showdown) which makes an audible clicking sound and i think this may somehow attract the fish the same way a rapala with bb's would by making noise. The joke with my buddies is that Im the one with the "clicker" and thats why i catch or get more bites. I think there might be something to this theory. What do you think?
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[quote ChubbyChaser]
Now here is my flasher theory...
More often than not i outfish my partners and get a lot more bites than the people immediately around me. I am usually the only one in my group using electronics (marcum showdown) which makes an audible clicking sound and i think this may somehow attract the fish the same way a rapala with bb's would by making noise. The joke with my buddies is that Im the one with the "clicker" and thats why i catch or get more bites. I think there might be something to this theory. What do you think?[/quote]
I think your use of the finder itself, (not the clicks) is why you get more bites. I don't think it matters a great deal except if you are using a finder in very shallow water, where I (unscientifically) think it might have a slight repelling effect.
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I Think you stated it perfectly!!!e
The electronics provide more bites because you move the lure to the targets you observe at different depths. Even when lure is at the correct depth you give it a bump or twitch to entice a bite when a target is observed.
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[#484848]A glow, a flash of light, a movement of a spinner blade,[/#484848]
[#484848]a rattle, a click, cloudy or sunny, color, smell, structure, large versus small bait, location, temperature, shade ........GO FIGURE.[/#484848]
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Question about noise and such things. Has anyone tried using a fish decoy?? I am
going to make and try one on my next trip.
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I try and use a fish decoy everytime I go fishing. Usually, I will attach at least one small hook to mine and sometimes two. Then I tie some fishing line to it and run it back through a fishing pole and onto a fishing reel. This way I am able to reel it in should anything attack my fish decoy!!
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[quote joevanoni]Question about noise and such things. Has anyone tried using a fish decoy?? I am
going to make and try one on my next trip.[/quote]
[#0000FF]Using big colorful decoys for jigging pike and muskies is an old tradition in some upper midwest ponds.
But don't ever take up hunting elephants. The decoys are murder.
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I can see how a decoy can work. Years ago a buddy and I found that one one panfish was on the hook let it sit for a minute. This would draw others around it and start a feeding frenzy.
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