Side pulling questions

[catchNgrease]

Why are jigs pulled rather than being pushed? Im sure there's a simple reason. But I cant come up with it

Thanks

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[huntersdad]

Keeps them out of the trolling motor.. atlaest for me it does.

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[DWILL]

I thought you could do both???

[silverside]

In my case it is because my boat has a transom mount trolling motor.
My other boat has a bow mount tm and I deadstick with it instead of push.

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[silverside]

I also use a special tm mount to allow me to do actual side pulling. All rods out the port side. I drift and do steering corrections with the tm.

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[catchNgrease]

I also use a special tm mount to allow me to do actual side pulling. All rods out the port side. I drift and do steering corrections with the tm.

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But why do you guys pull?

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[silverside]

Side pulling we use jigs. Transom pulling will be jigs or cranks. Both types of pulling is due to tm location.

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[silverside]

Another factor I guess would be that when pulling our longest pole is 9 ft due to small boat size

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[catchNgrease]

Thanks.

I have recently changed my direction in my boat purchasing and bought a pan fish. My Balance ain't real good anymore. I very rarely troll but some of my friends love it. So now I gotta learn to side pull. I was just worried about fishing in water I just pulled a boat across sideways lol.

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[silverside]

No worries. That only seems to matter in real shallow water.

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