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Shore Casting Suspended Crab & Shrimp! - ScubaChris - 09-12-2016
Shore casting, bait casting, dunking or sliding it's all the same. Trying to get our baits from the shoreline out to where the fish are day or night from the shallows to deeper depths.
The cost of throwing baits are mostly with buying lead & bait. One way of limiting these expenditures is not having to throw our rigs as often. If you can find ways of not having to keep feeding the fish with baits that'll save you the time & expense of re-baiting & buying lead.
Having said that i've been experimenting with suspending the baits off the bottom for many years. Crabs can't reach the baits. Smaller fish won't expose them selfs to predators by swimming up with no cover or protection from coral or seaweed to nibble on the baits as well. I've tried this system in the open shorelines of coral reefs to inland seas & the baits weren't touched.
I watched the rod tips. If the tips vibrates it means creatures were stealing/eating the baits. This happens all the time when the baits are on the bottom. Sometimes i go through bags of baits replacing the baits that were eaten. This means more money & time spent buying more bait. Also more chances of loosing lead from busted lead lines. If you are forced to keep re-baiting all the time it results in the lead line getting stuck more often which means more lost lead.
I'm sharing my system that suspends the bait over the bottom. This has always worked well for me, that doesn't mean it'll work as well for you. Your locality, type of bottom, bait used, species targeted, etc may dictate you to use what you've found works well for you in the area that you fish in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GDOyenJb7E
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