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Topic: What is the best techniques for fishing Pacific city oregon  (Read 3805 times)

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Dang, you guys put a lot of work into gaining an extra half a percent of success.

I find that I have a lot more fun by keeping it simple.

A 3 to 6oz jig head with a rootbeer scampi or black curley tail body on a 6' mono topshot is all you really need.

Look at a bathy map of the reef.  Find a couple of drop-offs and humps that look good and search them out.  When your ff shows drastic changes in bottom contour, fish it.  When you're trying to get back to the spot you marked, drag your jig along slowly just off the bottom.  (This can be used to hunt your next jigging location also).

I've only fished PC 3 times but 1 of them won me an ORC and 2 of them were deep into double digits.

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Dang, you guys put a lot of work into gaining an extra half a percent of success.

I find that I have a lot more fun by keeping it simple.

A 3 to 6oz jig head with a rootbeer scampi or black curley tail body on a 6' mono topshot is all you really need.

Look at a bathy map of the reef.  Find a couple of drop-offs and humps that look good and search them out.  When your ff shows drastic changes in bottom contour, fish it.  When you're trying to get back to the spot you marked, drag your jig along slowly just off the bottom.  (This can be used to hunt your next jigging location also).

I've only fished PC 3 times but 1 of them won me an ORC and 2 of them were deep into double digits.

-Mark-


+1 on keeping it simple.
+1 on the ProCure.

I got tired of the multiple flies snagging on everything on deck, so I run single lures and change out until I find what is the ticket that day. 

Also if you are snagging, you are not fishing. 

If you do snag good, just pop your reel in to neutral, and work your kayak back upstream of the snag.  Get a good rake on the line in doing so.
Most of the time the jig will fall out of the snag during the time you are getting into the upstream position and will reel right up. 

If that doesn't work, get your line tight and load up the tip.  Pull on your line from the side just before the first eye and give it a good "TWANG".  Do this a few times.  It shocks the lure and can release it more times than not. 

If that doesn't work, go about breaking off in whatever way you find works for you.   

I will snag up an easy couple dozen times a day, but only lose 1-2 lures at most.
 

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