The Big Hammer Sight Fishing Rig is part of a system. It’s a system that involves using finesse baits and bigbaits to aggravate a fish into biting. The swimbait is fished as an ‘intruder’ and provides a power fishing approach to big fish, the female kind usually, but also…
"Simplification is the Ultimate Sophistication" (Da Vinci) After reading the Steve Jobs Biography, I realized something basic about simplification in bigbait fishing. Softbaits get the most bites (and tend to catch the biggest fish, ala 8" Huddleston). So when in Rome, throw a softbait! Okeechobee validated what I already…
The House of the Rising Son: Okeechobee. Line thru, ball knobber boot tails, braided line and a trap hook rigging that brought me back to my days on San Vicente in the early 2000s. The 3:16 Rising Son, excellence is buoyancy and a thing I call, Rate of Stall—which…
Boot&Vortex Tails, weedless and not, braided line and 5 good bites a day, is that too much to ask for? This is my 4th year on Okeechobee. The lake is fishing WAY differently than in years past. The lake is choked out. The vegetation so thick in most areas,…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAufr4YVk8I] If I wanted to tell you that a Rate of Fall 5 (ROF 5) Huddleston Deluxe Trout is sometimes better than a ROF 12 or ROF 16 Huddleston Deluxe Trout, I would explain it two ways. One has to do with the Rate of Fall and how…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9utbjifjGFs] Watch the above video and see how a 3″ Big Hammer with a 1/4 oz. Hammer Head swims, at both normal speeds and with the aid of slow motion. There is an incredible amount of ‘rocking’ and rolling the body of the bait does, and…