I hate that I missed this meeting. I will have to catch the triangle meeting whenever it happens.

Hello Everyone,
It was a great meeting and very well attended. Tom held a great seminar and answered questions well after the meeting was over. Trolling is a very effective method and when this is given again you don't want to miss it! I will work on getting the pictures up asap!

Here are the pic's!

I would love to see one of these video taped.

I hope everyone enjoyed it and got some information they can put to good use.

Precisions Trolling is actually a great deal of fun - it requires a lot of work while you're underway but keeps you busy in a fun sort of way. Plus I know if no other fishing technique that is anywhere near as deadly for catching fish in reservoirs or oceans. It gets them where they spend 95% of their lives.

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Tom Kirkman
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You never hurt the resource when you return a fish to the water.

The fish you remove from the water today is one you can't catch again tomorrow.

Carry a camera - a photo of a fish lasts a lot longer than a fish does.

Tom,

I enjoyed the seminar last night very much. But afterwards I remembered a question I was going to ask. Will the same trolling techniques you gave last night for crankbaits work equally as well with spinner baits?

Thanks

Thanks Tom. I've been looking forward to this for weeks and it still exceeded my expectations. I not only learned a lot, but I appreciate your dedication to conservation. Great job!

Very glad you enjoyed it. Any questions, just ask and I'll do what I can to help.

On the question of trolling with spinnerbaits - yes they should be effective. However, it's going to be hard to put and keep them at a precise depth unless you run them below a slip-float. And as noted during the seminar, trolling is just pulling a lure around behind your kayak. Precision trolling is putting a bait directly in front of the fish's noise. There is a big difference in the result.

The reason most precision trolling is done with crankbaits is due to the fact that you can dial them in at a precise depth, and keep them there, by understanding the relationship between the bait and "line out." The depth curves provided in the Precision Trolling Guide allow us to put a bait at exactly the depth required, and to repeat it time after time.

But, as I stated the other night, there are other ways to achieve accurate depth, mini-downriggers and slip floats being two of them. Just depends on how much trouble you want to go go. The thing is, depth is the most important factor in this technique. In fact, depth may be the most important factor in all of fishing. When we come in to the dock, guys ask us all sorts of questions - "What did you catch you them on?" "What color were you using." Etc., etc., but almost nobody asks the most important question - "How deep did you get your strikes?" Get the depth right and everything else is easy.

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Tom Kirkman
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You never hurt the resource when you return a fish to the water.

The fish you remove from the water today is one you can't catch again tomorrow.

Carry a camera - a photo of a fish lasts a lot longer than a fish does.

For those of you who missed Tom's presentation, make sure to catch him the next time he gives it. He'll make you a believer.

Tom, I forgot to ask you one question the other night. Do you have a website for your rods?

Thanks again. It was a very informative presentation.

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2012 Hobie Pro Angler 14
Pungo 120

I haven't built rods for sale in over 15 years now. I do maintain the sites for the magazine ( www.rodmakermagazine.com ) and the Expo ( www.rodexpo.com). That's about it.

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Tom Kirkman
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You never hurt the resource when you return a fish to the water.

The fish you remove from the water today is one you can't catch again tomorrow.

Carry a camera - a photo of a fish lasts a lot longer than a fish does.