>>1140881Fished lots of thick cover on a little river so trolling didnt make sense in the begining. When I havent fished for them in awhile and don't have a pattern I tend to start with flashylures and active presentations, shallow and big cover first for active fish who are setup in ambush spots in current breaks and ready to feed. Then if no follows, I fish with increasingly more subtle presentations and less obvious cover, change cadence or retrieve speed. Then end with deeper areas. The bottom section of that stretch of river deepened so it became trollable.
This fish was caught on a homewrecker (giant walk the dog lure) the previous year holding close to a fallen tree. I had already gotten blowups and follows early so I was able to just focus on good potential structure that day.