I’ve been having a really good bite on the incoming tide on Trout tricks and slim swims in the purple color mood or moon ring I forget on trout eye jigs mostly. Today I fished a slim swim and my dad fished a trout trick with about a inch of the tip took off. I am better than him at fishing and he probably wasn’t fishing it right the whole time but I caught about 20 trout and 1 red and he caught about 7 trout and we fished from about 4 to 5:40 this afternoon. The trout range from about 10 to 16 and the red was about 16. Do you think the baits size was the difference or just technique? We fished about 10 ft apart the whole time cast for cast basically. He’s very impressed with the trout eye and trick and slim swim, so were the people watching me catch them like every third cast.
Technique for sure. Trout tricks do require some fine tuning in presentation.
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Talk to me about trout trick presentation. I have good results with a variety of techniques, none with others. Please let me know what works best.
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Let me see if I can quote Bonzo well enough…“twitch twitch, let it fall, set the hook” …that’s my go to presentation, I can certainly agree with you oyster that a few varieties can and will work and usually the slower the better!
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It’s not time for a slow presentation yet with reaction baits such as the TT. The water is too warm. Covering water is the key to finding them and on most days they are super aggressive.
What water temperature is cold enough for the slow presentation?
I second the “super aggressive” part! This past Saturday was like nothing I have ever experienced with trout. See my trip report, Mike.
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Originally posted by RADDADDYIt’s not time for a slow presentation yet with reaction baits such as the TT. The water is too warm. Covering water is the key to finding them and on most days they are super aggressive.
Definitely aggressive. I would get multiple hits per cast, but a guy right next to us was fishing fresh shrimp in the same spot as I was casting and caught nothing. I was casting across the creek and up the current and slowly reeling and letting it drag/fall down the side into the channel and then I would reel it just fast enough so it stayed about a ft or 2 off the bottom because there was some structure that would hang you up. I would get hits from the instant it hit the water, on the fall, crossing the channel and structure, when I got hung up I even caught a few, and had a few close to the bank on my side. But the majority of the hits were on the fall.
Below 55 slow down some, but below 52, slow is the key. Below 47 they don’t eat.
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