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Originally Posted by fleshy
Nice carp spaghetti! The three main differences I think between fresh and saltwater shooting are these:
1. You don't need as much weight in freshwater.
2. Sitting on the bottom and waiting for fish, or attempting to "lure" fish in rarely works.
3. Freshwater shooting is usually shallower, but not necessarily, because some people spear on wrecks and the such in the great lakes, and other very deep lakes.
Just because it seems simpler doesn't mean its any less challenging. It just has its own unique challenges to offer.
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Thanks. But the largemouth tasted much better!
For the technique thoughts, I can suscribe what you said as general concepts. But of course there would be so much more to say.
Talking for our lakes, it much depends on season, type of bottom and fish targeted.
Every fish here requires a different technique for each season. For example, pikes are very deep in the winter (30 meters or deeper), quite shallow in mid spring (5-8 meters), quite deep in summer (15-30 meters) and still quite shallow at the end of summer/early fall.
They (pikes) never come close with the aspetto technique (while perch, tench and largemouth do sometimes: as you said, it rarely works): in any case you must be sleek and quiet in your approach, and quick to shoot or they will soon give a tail blow and disappear in a cloud of mud: poff! While when they're deep, you must combine the so called dive-bombing technique with agguato. It's not for everyone to freedive 30 meters in 6 or 7°C with zero visibility, and perform a clever agguato. I know some guys who enjoy a lot this type of hunting, and I did it myself sometimes, but personally I'm growing too old for that...
Ok I'm making it too long, but in short what I mean is that we use a lot of different specialized techniques. Including: agguato on kelp beds (summer/fall) and rock beds (winter/early spring), seizing fish through kelp beds, eels in the mud (smmer), eels in the micro-algae that flourish in spring covering the bottom (spring), eels into rocks (fall/winter), burbots under stones (summer), et cetera et cetera et cetera.
