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Salt Water Everything Is What It SEAMS To Be - ME
Posted by jeremy on May 28, 2003 (2475 reads)
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I don't know much, but there is one thing I know for sure. All fish love the seams. When one current collides with an opposing current a seam is produced. I learned about fishing the seams while commercial fishing for swordfish, tuna and mako sharks in the Gulf Stream. The Gulf stream is essentially a river in the middle of the ocean, and like all rivers, it has various eddies, pools and currents that produce seams. On the commecial fishing boats, we would set 1200 hooks per night and when those hooks were set in seamless waters the results were often poor. On the contrary, when those hooks were set along a seam of water the results were usually good. Fish like the seams because their food gets funneled into the seams and many times the disturbed water causes the bait to become disorientated and lose control of its environment. We all know, that all fish love to eat helpless and confused bait. Whether its a recently emerged fly that gets caught in a seam and can't dry its wings or a bait fish that gets confused in the current, the seams are the demise of the weaker members of the aquatic food chain. So the bottom line is that I slammed the stripers hard last night. I caught at least 15 fish. All because I was fishing the seam. There were a few other fisherman, casting their flies and/or spinners into the stagnant, still, seamless water. They caught nothing.


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