Originally Posted by jimmythegreek (Post 407319)

no need for leadcore this time of year unless you are targeting lakers, all the bows and browns are up high in the water column. As for boards get offshore boards w the tattle flag kit you will never miss a strike, they are the only way to go, church tackle has boards similar now w a flag system.

when jigging deep u wanna use braid, you need to feel the bites and ticks of the bottom, mono/floro wont give you that in deep water. I also drift and jig, and also drift a few rods w fishfinder rigs right on bottom w shiners/herring the lakers hit those too. if you get some good marks you can definitely chum them and they go nuts, save your dead bait and cut them with scissors into 4 or 5 pieces and chum the water up wind and up current and jig the other side, they will rise 20-30 ft to hit a jig when fired up

Originally Posted by Chrisper4694 (Post 407432)

you know when you go fishing and it sucks so you have a ton of live bait left over...save it, freeze it in a ziplock bag or something and after a few trips you'll have a bunch of chum. chop it all up or mush it grind it whatever. anyway i'm sure pretty much any ground of chopped up bait will work. I bet chicken liver will work too on lakers but i've only tried it on hybrids in other lakes. Cheap catfood in fish flavors might work.

Originally Posted by iraevski (Post 407433)

what about cutting up some fish from the fish market (something cheap like white perch or something?) i don't really use live bait so it would be hard for me to collect the chum.

chumming sounds like a really good idea, didn't think about it. when i fished in Europe they always chum but they mostly fish for carp and other non-predator fish