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Ronny loves a channel edge bite with Z-Man 3” MinnowZ and 3/8oz jig heads.
Sheri with a solid grunter from a shallow weed edge bite.
FAishing spots versus techniques
FTER recently discussing people’s So, what were Sean and I looking for obsession with knowing where when we selected an area to fish, seeing we fish were caught, rather than how had never fished the area before?
ed to shoot a video fishing a spot that we had never lure fished before, utilising some of our favoured techniques.
they were caught, a mate Sean and I decid- Spots
The result was around 10 flathead, a few bream, a couple of flounder and a trevally, all in a couple of hours.
of a variety of fishing techniques, such as finesse plastics, deepwater plastics, blades, metals, topwater and Ned rig fishing, can more easily adapt to different environ- ments and scenarios than those who have learnt to fish one or two spots.
Fish are where you find them and over the years I have caught plenty of fish in un- likely spots, however a great starting point for selecting areas to fish is Google Maps, paper charts and charts in your sounder/ chartplotter.
..If I had to give up all the fishing ‘spots’ I know or give up all the fishing techniques I had learnt over time, there is no doubt the spots would be gone and tomorrow I would wake up and apply the techniques I have learnt to some new water.
I have often heard anglers say: “I could give you the exact spot, but you’re still not going to catch them,” and this comes down to how much time has been spent on the water at that spot, experimenting with different techniques.
Our starting point was looking for availa- ble structure, appropriate water depths for our target species and areas where there should be good water movement around structure, funnelling bait through and cre- ating eddies and ambush points.
Tackle Tactics
by JUSTIN WILLMER
Fish move around and are influenced by many variables, including tides, moons, seasons, rainfall, water quality, tempera- ture, bait in the area and any number of others we are not even aware of.
In saying this, Sean and I didn’t just ran- domly select a spot by throwing a dart at a board. Spots don’t need to be GPS points that others fish, and in fact the best ‘spots’ are the ones you work out yourself because then you know exactly how and when to fish them.
It is often the most obvious structure that attracts anglers in any system, however these are also often the areas that experi- ence the most fishing pressure.
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