so a lot of times whenever I'm bed fishing and the fish aren't super aggressive like trying to
guard the bed like picking stuff up off the bottom I'll take a bait that like this 13
Fishing Invader right here that has a little bit of water resistance and he's a real lightweight
like a quarter ounce and I'll put it right in front of their face and hop it and then that
weight will fall away from the bait and then the bait will kind of flutter in front of their nose
and a lot of times they'll just react to it and suck it in without even knowing what they did
so one of the most important things about trying to like I guess you could call it Force feeding
the bed fish is you have to have super accurate casting like you have to have the bait like you
have to have your line almost draped over that fish's nose whenever you get close to that fish's
mouth you want to hop it and then you have to keep your line Your Rod tip high so your Line's going
at the correct angle so that you know whenever you don't want to be laying on the bottom because
when you hop it's just going to pull it across the bottom so you got to really manage your line going
right across that fish's nose and be casting extremely accurately in order to even put it
in position and then you got to have a fish that you know will that will stay put long enough for
you to get all that stuff so it's a constant struggle of trying to get all the ingredients
right to make that work but it it it works whenever you get everything lined up correctly
yeah finally
had to wait till they get in the right position and hop it up and he sucked it right in
pretty one they're just spawning all up on the back side of all this grass all them
super shallow spots they're like this deep it's actually kind of surprising how shallow they are
with the kind of water Clarity we have
whenever I'm trying to place this bait before I'm going to try to hop it towards their mouth I want
it to be like six or eight inches past the fish you want to be a little bit further the deeper
you are so if the fish is super shallow you can be a little bit closer if it's you know deeper you
won't be a little bit further away you know far away from the fish and it's kind of just like a
reaction like if I threw something at you you're gonna put your hands up and try to catch it well
a fish doesn't have hands so they have to open their mouth and try to catch it like that that's
the way they react to stuff so all you want to do is just make the most accurate casts you possibly
can make line everything up correctly and then get it as close to their face as you can and
then whenever you hop it all they have to do is react to it by opening their mouth when they open
their mouth they have like a vacuum that actually sucks it in so you know it makes it where you do
all the work all they gotta do is open their mouth and they accidentally suck the bait in
so the times where I'm going to look to try to force feed that bedfish is like just like what
we have right now the fish have just pulled up to spawn they're just now making beds you're
seeing some on bed but you're not seeing very many females these males are not protecting one
little bitty tiny spot when that female pulls up and she lays eggs in the bed there's going
to be one small spot where when you put your bait in that spot they're going to come over
pick it up and you know try to get it out the bed as soon as they possibly can before that's
the case before there's any eggs in these beds the the fish are going to act a little bit more
skittish a little bit more you know not as interested in where your bait is at actually
in that bed they're not going to try to move it nearly as much so that's whenever you want
to if you can find one that'll stay put that's whenever you want to try to force feed one of
these fish but you know that it's the times where that fish is not acting not reacting the way you
want them to to your bait just sitting in that bed this is the adjustment that you have to make
okay verify it now
ain't a little one
thank you just gotta mess with it got him to bite a bunch of times like I said they're they're early
right now they ain't super committed to protecting because there's no eggs in any of these beds but
get your bite every now and then