POLL: Tactic / Movement Change when fish approach?

[Silas]

Do you change Tactics / Movement when you see a fish on your Flasher / Fish Finder?

If YES, how so?  (and is it successful?)

[viciouscircle]

If i'm jigging near the bottom imn 60'FOW and see a laker come in at 20' feet you bet i change tactics....lol...i reel up to 20'! Another obvious tactic change a fishfinder allows is realising you have drilled a hole over zero fish!

Otherwise i would say i continue doing what i am doing as that might be what attracted the fish in the first place....i find the fish  is usuallyin one of 2 moods....wanting a subtle or no movement presentation....or you have to trigger a bite with aggressive movement, just my observations. Sometimes its a combination of factors you need to change to get a bite, including lure,bait,line visibility etc. But one thing is for sure...i would say ...for me at least.....having a fisfinder makes changing tactics a lot easier and more successful.

Good post!

[TheDL]

I tried a flasher for the first time last weekend...and boy I was missing out before.  I sure do change tactics when I see a fish come in - similar to what vicious said (depth change, observer reaction to either dead stick or jigging)...but mostly I use this info (mark fish with strike or no strike) to tell me if they like the presentation I'm using.  If I get a bunch of lookers, but no takers I'll change accordingly.

Flashers are a game changer for me!

[musky mike]

i usually jig a bit aggressive till i mark a fish... then slow it down a bit so if/when it hits it wont miss the lure...

[bigredonice]

really depends on the type of fish I'm targeting and the fish's mood at the moment, it can be different from fish to fish...let the fish's' mood dictate your actions.

[Ocean]

Kind of off topic but... Other day jigging in hut.  Had a looker and so I dropped jig into the mud and kicked up a cloud of slit,,,,WHAMO!! Fish slams at lure but missed it,,,,, so I jig it a bit and nothing.   So I hit hit the mud again and ,,,,WHAMO!! A 1.5 lb bass slams and hits the lure.  It was interesting.  Ø

[bigredonice]

Kind of off topic but... Other day jigging in hut.  Had a looker and so I dropped jig into the mud and kicked up a cloud of slit,,,,WHAMO!! Fish slams at lure but missed it,,,,, so I jig it a bit and nothing.   So I hit hit the mud again and ,,,,WHAMO!! A 1.5 lb bass slams and hits the lure.  It was interesting.  Ø

great tip, works for all fish at some times.   It is one of my favorite moves to bring in Lakers and to call in perch that are feeding on bloodworms.

[Wingthing]

I like to work my presentation aggressively on my first drop and work the bottom 4-5ft of the water column quickly, watching my flasher to see if I can call in any big biters. Usually I'm chasing panniers, but I do the they same for walleye when on the BOQ. I try to keep doing what brings the fish in. Sometimes when there is lots of fish around I won't watch my flasher and just concentrate on doing whats been working so I don't overreact!!

[Silas]

I know I sometimes get excited when I see a fish (especially when it has been a while) and I try to watch myself so that I don't change my motion as they sometimes leave right away when they see a change.

[dwc67]

when i mark fish i always start to raise the lure using around the same jigging motion. i find fish get aggressive if they have to chase an "escaping" prey. i have had whitefish come up 60ft before they hit.

[Snakehunter]

If I am in deep and I see a fish, say 40 feet above my bait, I will fairly rapidly bring my bait to within 10' of the depth and then slowly jig up and just through the target depth. Then I will jig slowly down into the zone.
I do this for a minute or two in that zone and if I don't get any action I go back to whatever I was doing before. I especially use this tactic on whitefish. They tend to move up or down only a few feet either way in my experience. Trout will go 20 or 40 feet when they notice then follow my bait.