“I think as water gets hotter, their metabolism rises with it and blues need to roam around searching for food a lot more. It seems that I have to move around a lot more as well so I drift over areas targeting active fish and don’t worry about fish holding in one area. In hot water, when fish are active – I can set up on them and by time I’ve caught a few fish they’ve moved. When fish are acting this way I feel like I’ve made right choice by drifting.”

The Controlled Drift

Jeff admits that drift fishing for blues isn’t really targeting big fish specifically, but he is still targeting structure that holds big fish. He finds an area that is showing right drift scenario according to his experience on his lakes. He looks for fish arches on his locator holding right distance off bottom according to thermocline. He likes to see fish on graph holding either really close to bottom. “Somebody out there might have some success with these loosely suspended fish but I haven’t done well trying to target them yet.”

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