Two Lines or One.

[MuskieBait]

(03-05-2014 04:52 PM)OldTimer Wrote:  ..................Channel Catfish and Bullheads?

.................... dead bait for Pike

............................ suckers and redhorse?

............................................any and all bobber fishing

..... etc.

OT

Maybe my methods of fishing is different from yours...

Channel catfish - There are specific holes where the channels often sit in. Find the holes, and you do not need to sit a bait all day for them. In fact, if you are fishing in a river for channels, you simply need to place the bait slightly upstream of the hole and that bait will get whacked within a few minutes...if not less than a minute.

Bullhead - You can fish bullhead actively by walking a bait along the bottom. That's how I catch my bullheads. Walk, pause, walk, pause. They do have territories, especially when spawning. If you sit a bit there all day in a spot where it is not even remotely close to a bullhead's territories, you'll not catch it.

Deadbait for pike - Sure, two rods can help...but you can also slowly move that deadbait along to find your pike. Fishing a deadbait under a float is what I have in mind.

Suckers and redhorse - Seriously? Again, these are usually river fish. They sit in specific locations in the current (or out of the current). Find the spot, and you can cast back to the same spot over and over again and catch them pretty quickly...or bottom bounce your worm to them...or drift the worm under a float to them. They are river fish...they are used to picking off drifting bait. The key is to find out where they hold. Once you find out, it doesn't take long to catch them. Eli and I experienced that last time in Ottawa when the Shorthead Redhorse were sitting on a rocky shoal in the middle of the river. Unless you have the bait right on the shoal, you're catching squat. As soon as you move the bait on the shoal, WHAMMO! It was so fast and furious that at times we wouldn't even have time to put the rod into the rod pod.

Bobber fishing - Again...why does bobber fishing always imply stationary? You can use a search pattern with bobber fishing...and when you do so, you can only handle one rod at a time.

I fished for everything you mention with all the methods you mentioned...and still I believe you don't need more than one rod at a time...