Page 25 - BNB Fishing mag | May 2020

Deepwater plastics produced this beautiful trout.
Weedless rigging is a great technique for fishing heavy structure.
Learn to fish mangrove edges and you have just created hundreds more ‘spots’ to fish.
The author got out of his comfort zone in the shallows and learnt to fish deeper structure.
A move to a deeper channel edge and it was heavier heads and larger paddle tails that got the bite.
Zac’s first fish on a lure. Step one, learn the technique. Step two, get the net!
down the middle, rising to a bank either side, and most importantly with plenty of broken weed beds and rubble patches to hold bait and fish.
The system that previously held one or two key pieces of structure you concentrat- ed on is now loaded with ‘spots’ to fish and when you travel to new water, you have the arsenal of techniques to break it down and more likely have a successful session.
We slow rolled plastics over the shallows, hopped plastics down the edges and picked the pockets in the weed, paying additional attention to areas holding bait.
Techniques for the win! See you on the water.
We selected this spot because we were familiar with fishing this type of structure and knew the techniques to work it suc- cessfully.
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ranging from 0.5-2m deep with a channel
Likewise rock walls, pontoons, channel edges, deep reef and rubble, drains, weed beds, canals, bridges, boat hulls, flats and so on.
So, you still need to select areas that should hold fish, however more important- ly you need to have a few techniques to fish the area effectively.
Learn to fish mangrove edges and you have effectively unlocked any mangrove edges you encounter.
Plenty of signs of life. Fish the edge on low tide and on top of the flat on the high.
A deepwater rubble patch spotted on the sounder and a large curl tail sent down on a heavy head.
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Sean drifted and fished the flats. No obvious structure here but plenty of bait and fish.