Originally Posted by Fish Tank
Keefe,
I think you bring up a very good point. Last Sat I was out with a charter of sharpies and most of the guys were bucktailing. While I was cutting bait, I had my rod in the holder rigged with one of your 6oz nuclear chicken bucktails and a pink shine grub teaser and within 2 minutes, the rod doubled over with a keeper fluke (on the grub). I reset, went back to cutting squid and a few minutes later it went down again and I pulled up yet another keeper, this time on the bucktail. I decided that was the way I was going to fish the rest of the day and wound up being high hook with a few more shorts and another keeper. Even a few of the other guys decided to change over to deadsticking and they saw more action than the others that continued to hold the rod and jig.
I believe with the cooler water temps, the fish are a little more lethargic this year and are looking for slower action on the jig or bait for that matter. The movement of the boat rocking back and forth causing the bucktail to slowly tap the bottom is what they were looking for, not the contant motion of jigging up and down all the time. I've found that most people including myself have a tendancy of overworking the bucktail when the rod is in their hand not giving it enough time just to lay on the bottom. I could be wrong and this may change as the temps warm up, but that's just my 2 cents.
~Capt. Kevin
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