Mooching

Pooching is when your catch flops away while C-P-R'ing on a hawg trough...   

BTDT

Boosting?

I just had to go back and look up the original pooching and boosting thread on NCKA ... http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php/topic,11882.0.html

Sometimes I laugh at myself.   

-Allen

We didn't use the traditional trolling/banana weights - think they were small balls or dropper weights.

Had it set up with light enough weight that it was a pretty slow drop, even in free-spool - enough to combat the current.  There were at least 3 newbies on the boat (Japanese tourists) and don't remember any of them rat-nesting the reels or getting tangled up. 

Just a short leader off a swivel on the ball and a herring/anchovie tail twirling as it dropped.  Seemed effective, but think that may be why he didn't want us jigging the rods - keep from knotting up the tackle.

My recollection is a little fuzzy - the night before involved strippers and a LOT of alcohol - good times but I should have been taking notes on the boat....

Every hit we got was on the drop.

Think the guide would give us a target depth for two reasons:

1.  No reason to drop more than 10 - 15' past the fish he was marking on the sonar.

2.  Didn't want us hitting bottom, the newbies would have snagged up for sure plus he was intently watching all the lines - minute he saw slack anywhere he was on them to start cranking.  The newbs missed a few before they figured it out - soon as you hit slack, crank like hell.

Soon as you'd drop to target depth without a hit, crank it back up and do it again - all the hits were on the drop.

SC