Some thoughts on fishing Iron - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

taggermike · 07-16-2012, 01:04 PM

I may disagree about some of your observations. Bait fish tend to swim in to the current and most bait fish are extreamly strong swimmers for the size. Dines and chovies are filter feeders and moving in to the current provides them with a new feeding oportunity continuously. Strong currents will move the bait backwards even though they are swimming upcurrent. Weaker baits will fall back out of the school where they are picked off by predators. This may explain the effectivness of lures pulled down current and plastics long lined across the bottom. And you are right that yo-yo/heavy iron can be amazingly effective. The iron is fishing the whole water colume both down and up. Mike

07-16-2012, 01:04 PM	#4
taggermike Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Chula Vista Posts: 1,589	I may disagree about some of your observations. Bait fish tend to swim in to the current and most bait fish are extreamly strong swimmers for the size. Dines and chovies are filter feeders and moving in to the current provides them with a new feeding oportunity continuously. Strong currents will move the bait backwards even though they are swimming upcurrent. Weaker baits will fall back out of the school where they are picked off by predators. This may explain the effectivness of lures pulled down current and plastics long lined across the bottom. And you are right that yo-yo/heavy iron can be amazingly effective. The iron is fishing the whole water colume both down and up. Mike