"Don White" wrote in message
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"HK" wrote in message
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I use light wire circle hooks for drift fishing and bottom fishing in the
Bay. I've always got a rod handy for sight fishing or to cast a lure into
a pod of breaking fish, but on those lures I do not use circle hooks.
Gave up trolling for fish years ago. I just can't tolerate the
mindlessness of it.


Sure doesn't seem like much of a 'sport'.
Throw out a line & hook... drive boat around slowly until some hapless
fish gets snagged.
........ and people say watching sailboat racing is
boring....................


Until you have 3 tuna hit your spread at the same time, or a 35lb bull
dolphin grey-hound across the top of the water, I really can't explain the
excitement that trolling brings to fishing.

And I don't just "throw out a line and hook". I have anywhere from 4-6 rods
out at a time that we're constantly working/adjusting, two of them off
outriggers. Meanwhile, the captain is constantly looking for temperature
breaks, upwellings, debris, weedlines, rips, or birds working schools of
fish.

This isn't like pulling a little Rapala minnow behind your johnboat in
search of a 3 pound walleye.