Show of hands---who'sready to support bull shark nursery (dang CNR)

[ronaultmtd]

If you have every fought a 40# CNR to the yak and retrieved the lure successful on 10# test light spinning tackle...you don’t want to do it again...they were swimming around yesterday at Smith Creek...and Rose Haven and Eastern Bay...they are just about every where...because of that I did very little trolling yesterday...95% casting and with soft plastic swimbaits I was prepared to break off if I snagged a CNR...I threw a Top Dog a few times over grassbeds hoping to get a Redfish or trout to come up and play, but no takers...that is one lure you can pretty much say is CNR proof...top water...anything else is a CNR magnet...

[bluefishnc]

If you have every fought a 40# CNR to the yak and retrieved the lure successful on 10# test light spinning tackle...you don’t want to do it again...they were swimming around yesterday at Smith Creek...and Rose Haven and Eastern Bay...they are just about every where...because of that I did very little trolling yesterday...95% casting and with soft plastic swimbaits I was prepared to break off if I snagged a CNR...I threw a Top Dog a few times over grassbeds hoping to get a Redfish or trout to come up and play, but no takers...that is one lure you can pretty much say is CNR proof...top water...anything else is a CNR magnet...

Weedless spoons (H&H "The Secret") work good too when the CNRs are thick. Tip the hooks with a gulp swimming mullet trailer and that usually does the trick. Not my go to lure but 3rd down the list and I've got plenty of flounder, rock, and reds with that setup.

Oh... and yeah... fighting up to the yak on light tackles ain't fun but once. Trick I've found though is you can horse them in if you hook em shallow (less than 2 or 3 feet). Tighten your drag and drive right at them lifting up as hard as you can to try and get one wing out of the water (helps if you have them snagged at the tip of the wing) then try and get them in your net assuming your net is big enough and be prepared for them to spazz out and give you a bath for about 30 seconds until they chill. I've got about a 50% success rate with this strategy but if they get into deep water you are screwed and should cut off asap. No way to get them up again without an extended trip wasting fight.