This is the way I fish...unless bed fishing. In July and August I catch a ton of crappie.....KY bass....in 21 feet of water on the bottom. In October-December I fish for bluegill in 21 feet of water....they are on the bottom. They are in 21 feet of water. This is the main reason I went to a sinking line. Doing a retrieve using nylon it is darn near impossible to keep it down using micro jigs. I also have low speed reels which helps a lot. In the 21 feet I use a count of 35 seconds to get it down for a 1.5 gram jig head....close to a 1/19 ounce. I leave my bail open and let line out to help the jig fall down as straight as possible instead of back towards me. It is very hard to keep it at the same depth. I cast past the fish and on my retrieve it goes though them close to the depth they are at or just above them. You may have read some of my posts where I tell a story about my son fishing together. Same lure...same jig head.....he was fishing nylon I was fishing the polyester line....which sinks. I caught a fish every cast...he caught I think one fish. It is in one of my videos that this happened. I felt bad for him. But the next time out to same spot he stayed with me fish to fish. The difference that time out.....I gave him a spool of my sinking line and he had purchased a low speed reel. Fluorocarbon line sinks even better than the polyester. A small diameter braid...while it is neutral buoyancy also.....will sink better than nylon will. You will need to go out and practice counting down until it bottoms out and then you can get an idea of how long it takes to get the bottom at a certain depth. If you are fishing in 20 feet of water, yet the fish are 10 feet deep, I just make a few cast and count down until I start catching then make the same count every cast. If you give a sinking line a try you will be amazed at how much faster a lure falls over nylon. This past week I had to use nylon line as I was getting into larger white bass than my polyester line could handle. I had to adjust my count and retrieve rate considerably.
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