07-10-2013, 05:46 PM
I'm FAR from an expert on Wipers, but I've heard and seen the same - diving Terns, or other birds - hitting the boiling shad schools. If you boogie up to a boil - stop outside, then creep and cast into it. You can kill a boil (and piss off a bunch of wiper-hunters) but blazing guns right into the middle of it.
Sunshine - heard 'em turn on when the clouds roll in, then turn off just as quick. Dusk to dark can be good.
Folks have talked about the live/dead shad. No bluegill as bait these days, perch though... shad patterns, cranks, clackers, crawdads - lots of good patterns, but one day it's one color, then next it all changes.
Kastmasters are commonly pitched - but haven't seen the dog-walkers mentioned - the ZaraSpook types that slurp and splash the surface.
Might check in with the Nevada folks too. Seens some Striper discussions over that-a-way.
Sunshine - heard 'em turn on when the clouds roll in, then turn off just as quick. Dusk to dark can be good.
Folks have talked about the live/dead shad. No bluegill as bait these days, perch though... shad patterns, cranks, clackers, crawdads - lots of good patterns, but one day it's one color, then next it all changes.
Kastmasters are commonly pitched - but haven't seen the dog-walkers mentioned - the ZaraSpook types that slurp and splash the surface.
Might check in with the Nevada folks too. Seens some Striper discussions over that-a-way.