[ILLOGICAL GGC]

cinci
those same piggys winter with us in north carolina.our 3 primary methods of fishing for 'em is:
1) stretch 35s and 50s trolled to find nonactively feeding fish.
2) slow troll a rig called a mojo rig which consist of a huge chunk of round lead up to 36 ozs with a 15/0 hook molded into it with a 10 in swimming soft plastic fin-s type and a floating jig 4-8 feet behind it
3) with an active feeding school after menhaden , we jig anything from flat butterbean style bucktails over 2oz with either white or chartruse 6" tails or similar leadhead variations thereof.
this season the jig of choice was the parachutes with same 6" tails. each year seems some bait mfg. comes out with something new.
my jig of choice ended up being 2-1/2 oz SPRO shad pattern w/o tails . i cursed roland martin for 2 trips w/o a bite with it but the last trip i was catching 4 to 1 ratio over my buds with it on that trip. the 9" swimmers with the lead enbedded in the body were great slow trolling and jigging once a school was marked
however this season my best luck came from a dead 12" hickory shad i caught in the local river on their spawn run the day b-4 the offshore trip. carried it along just for s & gs and ended catching a 35 lb striper when we happened upon a school busting the top wide open!!!
water temp down here went as low as 34degrees for 3 weeks and they were caught on all the above methods.
don't catch em all now you here---we will looking for them come november!!!!
robert