Once again, my yearly rant about bringing the right tackle...
Fishing deep water, fast current, crappy conditions isn't going to make it with a noodle rod or anything that bends in half with an 8 to 12 ounce sinker! These fish aren't stupid, by the time you come back to set the hook and take the bend out of the rod, the fish is gone! That's how they got to be big in the first place..
Unfortunatly we are forced to target BIG fish and as you know anything 18 inches and over is a Big fish in todays scheme of things.
If you like to fish light tackle, that has it's place and time and is the way to go when conditions warrant it, but why not be preparred when the current is running 2 knots and you need the weight? It's still fishing, maybe not bucktailing with stingers and all kinds of other crap, just good ole fishing, the proper way!
I watched a customer's ugly stick with 10 ounces of weight today bend completly in half as he lifted to check for a bite....shoot me..these aren't suicide Fluke!!!
We fish where we have to and do what we have to do to try and produce, if you listen and do the right thing, you WILL catch fish...Thanks! Capt.ron
