Cumberland 9/8 trolling

[kstonich]

If you look closely this is from my original post. Yes they were catching these shallower fish.
They commented that they could not get bit deep so they came up and targeted those fish and limited out the day before




"I was marking fish in the 40-45ft range but did not target them.
I spoke wit a couple of guys who were catching them shallow 40ft on jig and twister tails"

[boskeet]

If you look closely this is from my original post. Yes they were catching these shallower fish.
They commented that they could not get bit deep so they came up and targeted those fish and limited out the day before




"I was marking fish in the 40-45ft range but did not target them.
I spoke wit a couple of guys who were catching them shallow 40ft on jig and twister tails"

Right, and I read that. My post was intended to reach anyone else on the forum who might have targeted the fish in the shallower ranges the last couple days as to provide some additional info. I appreciate your original report, kstonich.

[Duayne]

Right, and I read that. My post was intended to reach anyone else on the forum who might have targeted the fish in the shallower ranges the last couple days as to provide some additional info. I appreciate your original report, kstonich.

The 45 ft deep fish in seventy plus ft of water are shorts and catfish. I have not looked in water more shallow than that. The deepest I have seen keeper fish has been 65 ft. But that is me in the limited places I have fished and many days I haven't fished very long. Last Sunday was the longest at 3 hours. I've stuck with live bait the last month because the pattern for me has been 7-10 ft off the bottom whether it's 100 ft or 70 ft and I do not like pulling riggers and slide divers that close to the bottom over points. I may take some time and search for some larger schools that are higher this weekend. They are out there, I just haven't ran across them.