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Ledge Blues
You have permission to publish this article free of charge aslong as you are not selling it and that you include the authorbylines immediately visible with the article and, if publishedin an electronic medium such as on a web site, you provide alink back [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] to [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] in the authorbylines, both where the web address is listed as well as well aswith the text "Lake of the Ozarks Catfish Fishing GuideService":
He looks for areas where the bottom has subtle rises and dropsgoing from just below and well above the thermocline. "Duringthe hotter water [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] period, the thermocline is everything." Jeffuses his locator to mark fish on gently sloping ledges with theright depth before he [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] deploys his baits and begins a drift. "Youcan find fish holding on steep ledges in the summer but steepledges are difficult to get the right drift to stay in contactwith numbers of fish. I prefer gentle rises and drops in a longdiverse bottom contour area. Once you catch a few fish, make anote at what depth you're catching them in. If you're catchin'fish in 16 foot of water around a 12 foot hump - you'd betterfind some more 16 foot of water to drift around in."
The Controlled Drift
Procat pro-staffer Jeff Williams ardently targets big blues onTruman Reservoir and Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri. A lifetimeof [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] big-lake catfishing has taught him a thing or two aboutcatfish [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] behavior in reservoirs, and according to Jeff you canput more fish into the boat if you learn [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] a few keys tosummertime blue cat location. Before we get into the fishingpart let's look at the two lakes Jeff fishes.
Lake Ledges
"I think as the water gets hotter, their [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] metabolism rises withit and the blues need to roam around searching for food a lotmore. It seems that I have to move around a lot more as well soI drift over areas targeting the active fish and don't worryabout fish holding in one area. In hot water, when the fish areactive - I can set up on them and by the time I've caught a fewfish they've moved. When the fish are acting this way I feellike I've made the right choice by drifting."
Summertime angling for trophy-sized blue cats [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] on huge reservoirscan be tough. Peer across an expansive lake and the sheervastness will seemingly swallow you whole. Where do you start?Do you just go out and look around with a good locator and hopeto see some arches and begin fishing? [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] Based on past experiencesyou know two things. Sometimes you have to drift. Other timesyou'll have to anchor. How do you know which to do first andwhat types of structure are you looking for that will hold bigburly blue cats?
Jeff anchor fishes ledges, flats, trenches, wood cover, andsteep drops during most of the year except during the hot-waterpost-spawn period. Big blues will hold on specific cover part ofthe time and roam around in tight areas looking for food beforerelocating during the cooler months which allows him to set upon a good number of fish. He still has to look for fish with hisfinder during the colder water periods but once he finds them,he can anchor up and fish a specific area. Jeff's theory aboutblue cat metabolism may hold the key to understanding why hedoes better while drift fishing during summer and the oppositeduring the cooler water period.
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Many lakes around the country have different bottom styles fromsheer drops down into as much as 180 foot of water on canyonterrain reservoirs, to relatively shallow featureless bowls withsubtle drops in depth. Not all lakes are built alike buttrophy-sized blues behave in similar ways wherever they swim -especially when it comes to relating to the same types of coverand depth according to the season you are fishing.
Copyright ? 2004-2005 Jeff Williams and Procats
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Why Drift During Summer
While Jeff targets cats in a variety of situations during thesummer period, he reports that during the warm-water post-spawnperiod, drift fishing is in his most productive pattern for mostdays on both lakes for numbers of fish.
Jeff admits that drift fishing for blues isn't really targetingbig fish specifically, but he is still targeting structure thatholds big fish. He finds an area that is showing the right driftscenario according to his experience on his lakes. He [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] looks forfish arches on his locator holding the right distance off thebottom according to the thermocline. He likes to see fish on thegraph holding either really close to the bottom. "Somebody outthere [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] might have some success with these loosely suspended fishbut I haven't done well trying to target them yet." [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
Make sure to read Part 2 of this article to learn more aboutcatching monster ledge lunker blues!
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