There are a few things that I have learned in past years. One would be temp brakes.The other thing to check out when there are no temp breaks out there and the water from the hudson to east atlantis is a constant 73 degrees. Cheek out a chlorophyll chart. That sometimes has bailed us out. I think one of the biggest things to success is fishing tuseday threw friday. There less pressure on the fish. Stay away from fleets of boats. If there are lots of boats in the area trolling 2 screws shut one motor down run it like a single screw downeast hull. If there is alot of squid in the area when chunking at night and they keep eating the snot out of your baits run a makerel they wont touch it. This past year we started to fish butter fly jigs. You want to find out what depth the fish are at quick drop one down. Half the fish chunking last year where caught on butterfly jigs. I started to fart around will ballyhoo last year. Learn to rig them run them in your spread along with atleast 2 spreader bars if not more. We run 4 baits off one outrigger. 2 spreader bars and 2 ballyhoo with islander rigs. One thing we do when its to snotty to go out we will hit the sound with 10 lines out and troll diffrent spreads to learn better ways to run the lures so when its nice out you can improve your odds of hooking up.These are a sample of little things that i have learned over the last few years that have helped us out. Good luck and tight lines. |