blade bait and current seam?

When pitching blade, how far do you pitch to properly working blade?
when you guy talking about working the current seam, do you pitch up current seam and work the jig back down with current or do you pitch across?

thanks.

I do all the above. If I’m in a back eddy, I’ll pitch the blade right inside the slower edge of the seem and let the flow bring the blade back to me as I jig it. A lot of times the fish will hit as soon as the blade gets behind the boat and the angle of the jigging motion changes.

Other times I’ll anchor inside the seem and cast to the edge of it, letting the seem sweep the blade bait downstream. You can anchor inside it also, just depends on how far from shore the seem is.

I like working it at about a 45 degree angle to the seam. I’m pitch out into the “slack water”, hit bottom, and work it up/across. I start faster and then slow it down until i find a rhythm the fish want. My last few pitches will be more down stream and work up just inside the slower side of the current. Finally, depending on the amount of current, I’ll hit the faster side of the current.
The pic is of a typical area I would pitch to. I marked the seams that I like to hit. the pic was shot from the down stream side of the break. I would position myself to hit this from the upper end and from both sides. I’m sure others will have varying opinions

Cool pic.

Randy:

Are you looking upstream???

Mark

“the pic was shot from the down stream side of the break. “

Hmmm…. Thanks for the insight, I would have thought that all the places like that were way too much current. I would only fish at the very bottom of the picture. (More slack water area) Great more areas to look for and fish now, just when I thought I started narrowing down some water I learn something new.

wannabefishing – the abundance of current in the place in the pic is what makes it such a good spot. There is a rock lip at the head end that diverts most current to the far side. There is moderate to light current on the near side. The slick area is very slow moving – but a key ingredient – MOVING water. Spots like this give a lot of options to check out. The best part is once you get a couple fish, you have them normally dialed in. Fast current, slow, where/how they are staging on the seam. Thenm it just a matter of duplicating spots as you move from spot to spot.