Wanna Catch More Fish?

 ... Fish The Bottom

(This is something I've adopted since I first spotted it in a very old magazine. It was then reaffirmed in the booklet that came with the early Flatfish lures. Yeah, it has been common knowledge for a long time. 

Then, I got into fly fishing, and I tended to forget it - since fly fishing is primarily a shallow water game. 

But it always stuck in my mind, and these days, Im going back that way again. Yet, to this day, many anglers simply ignore it. They flail a9way in the shallows and refuse to make it their main play)

One of the simplest, yet most powerful, statements of summary to come from the early Spoonplugging movement. If my memory serves, and paraphrasing just a bit, Ron Lindner once stated in response to the question of why the Lindy Rig was so successful, was that it forced anglers to fish their bait on or near the bottom where the fish were located. To this day, nearly every crankbait article since, some 60 years worth of print and advice, has at some point mentioned ”hitting the bottom,” or “deflecting off cover.”

💯 “Fish the bottom, not close but on the bottom. Disturb the bottom with your lure or bait. It's hard to get anglers to believe or do this. But this is where fish feed. How about weeds and snags? They won't bother you as much as you think. Get used to them. If you don't have this trouble, you won't be troubled by many fish either.”

Fishing News, 1967