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When I was last out, I found a beautiful place with flat fishing platforms dropping down in to about 12' of water with a lot of kelp present in places. Unless I dropped a bait on one of the occasionally visible sandy spots in between the kelp, the current eventually washed an exposed hook point on a static lure in to trouble.
How have you guys been fishing around heavy kelp? Or have you been avoiding it (or at least fishing away from it)?
As far as I could tell, landing a bait IN the kelp wasn't getting it too far - other than eventually hooking up with the current moving the bait, it would also not have been visible to fish.
A swimming bait is obviously an easy get-out, but it hardly goes by most of the theories and tactics being developed.
How do you approach thick kelp?
How have you guys been fishing around heavy kelp? Or have you been avoiding it (or at least fishing away from it)?
As far as I could tell, landing a bait IN the kelp wasn't getting it too far - other than eventually hooking up with the current moving the bait, it would also not have been visible to fish.
A swimming bait is obviously an easy get-out, but it hardly goes by most of the theories and tactics being developed.
How do you approach thick kelp?