Quote Originally Posted by sherman51 View Post
sometimes in the western basin, I've found it's better to just pull lines make a run-up, and troll back through. at most times I have found the fish will bite much better going in one direction over going the other way. I went with a friend that invited me to go out. the waves were coming out of the north. so we ran up a bit and trolled south. we got 18 of our 2-man limit and they just quit. we made a turn north and trolled north but never got the 1st fish on the way back out. we made our turn back south and had our other 6 fish and 2 more on the lines before we got all the lines back out. it doesn't hurt to try turning around but if the fish don't bite try running back out and go in your original direction.
this is so true. We do catch them both way sometimes but more times than not, we do better pulling lines and restarting the productive line again.