That was my fourth cast through there and I kept changing my rod angle to raise the
bait to get it up higher in the water column. I finally got it up there far enough that
I got it in front of him. I'm throwing the little Arashi Series 3 Square Bill and I'm
throwing it right here around the edge of these docks. The wind is blowing in on it
and it's got the bait pushed up in the corners of the shade. This is the 3; it's got the
rotated hook hangers, computer chip bill, and the self-tuning line tie. You can really
fish this bait fast because of that self-tuning line tie. I kept throwing it in there and
I kept raising and lowering my rod trying to fish the bait up higher in the water column.
Like I said it was about my third cast through there and I had the rod up real high cause
these fish are laying right under the edge of those docks. So don't think you can't catch
fish around docks on a crankbait because you can. That's one good thing about this Arashi
is you can really burn it and that self tuning line tie always allows that bait to track
and stay true. With those rotated hook hangers you can also put bigger hooks on it, which
helps you land more fish with bigger hooks. I've been playing around with my retrieve
as I throw around the edge of them and kind of fishing the bait at different levels. Sometimes
I'll throw the bait in there and I'll keep it down to let the bait dive deeper. But like
I said a lot of these fish are up higher because there's lots of little schools of minnows
around these docks today. So a lot of times I'll keep my rod tip up high and that's one
thing I think a lot of people make a mistake a lot of times throwing a crankbait and they
just point the rod at the bottom and they just wind it. But a lot of times when you're
fishing especially around docks or through cover you can actually hold your rod up and
cause that bait to run at different levels. Also a lot of times it will help you in cover
not get hung up as bad because it will actually allow the bait to actually work up and over
the cover instead of just diving down. That's the one thing about this bait; it's designed
to deflect and with that self tuning line tie it actually keeps the bait running true.
Soon as it hits something it gets back on track. It doesn't deflect and run out of the
strike zone very far. There ought to be one right here on this end too. I'm going to hold
my rod up and come under those minnows. Every time I run this bait under those minnows it
causes them to scatter and run and a lot of times that will trigger a strike too. It will
make them think that this little bait here is trying to eat some of their fish.
He swatted at it again. I stopped it that time though. I got him that time! It took
three tries but I finely got him to bite. He hit at it twice before I finally got him
the third time. There may be another or more in there because a lot of times on these isolated
pieces of cover there will be more than one fish and specially if there's a herd of minnows
around.
Let me try it again here; try it further down the log.
He ate it. He ate it really good! I felt something bump it as I came across
that ditch. There's a piece of cover right there and that may have been what he come
off of.