i bought a lure, ill report back how i like it. im sure hookup ratios are gonna be garbo, i have no idea what the durability will be, and i dont particularly like the shank the trailer is tied on, BUT if this walks decently, and i can put it deep in cover like i want to, this might be one of my new favorite baits
>>2713038>on a sandy bottom with no structuresthgere's your first problem. fish dont tend to like big flat nothing. find a sand bar or a drop off or a point or a pier or a trough or something, anything.
>I'm not sure if it's well designed or notyou were kind of close and in theory you could catch a fish with that, but the fish you would catch like that would almost certainly bite it off immediately. i also suspect that youre not fishing it nearly aggressively enough for mackerel or bluefish or anything of the sort, though im not confident they were even in the area to be fished for by the lack of attention to the rapala.
go to the local tackle shop- not a chain store, a a proper local tackle shop, tell the person behind the counter that you're not from the area and you left your brain cells back home, and you want to catch a fish and you should be able to get pointed half way in a direction at least.
>>2713188breaking rods is dreadful
>>2713196i genuinely dont think it matters for hookups. that said, i have seen offset hooks designed to make baits spin while trolling, i think they were specifically marketed for walleye.
