Tried something new

[Eyezcrazy]

Went up by the border N.E. Of North Bass and couldn't decide if we wanted to stay with the spoons or switch to harnesses so we put spoons on one side and harnesses on the other and headed East at 2.0 gps speed. Not much was happening so I decided to troll in circles with the spoons on the outside of the loop,for increased speed, and harnesses on the inside of the loop, for reduced speed. Game on! We started pulling fish on both sides! When we straightened the line of our troll the bites stopped and when we circled they hit again.Spoons were jaeger bomb regular and uv and pooh bear purple. Harnesses were Colorado dark purple blade with purple beads and 1 chartreuse bead up front. Best lead was 40 ft behind TT 40's.

We fished that area because the fish have been a little bigger as opposed to the fish we caught Friday south of the mega pack over by Rattlesnake and west of Green Island.

I have trolled in a circular pattern before when trying to figure out what speed the fish prefer on that given day. If they hit the inside we slow our speed and start trolling our line, if the hit the outside we bump the speed up and start our line. It was kind of different to use 2 different presentations that worked because we were actually achieving the speeds required for each by using the circular pattern. It helped that we were the only boat around until a couple more showed up later in the morning.

On a side note, I have about had it with the Michigan Stinger Spoons! The new UV spoons I bought started losing paint the first day out and we have broken several treble hooks this year when removing the hook from the fish! These spoons are far too expensive for made in China type of quality!

Good luck to all!

Jim