Dennis when jigging or lifting the mepps, are your strikes occurring as the mepps rises or falls? Also, roughly how far do you think the lure is coming off the bottom?

A few hits on the fall but most on the lift. Vary the lift height to see what works best. I'd say I lift it a minimum of 6 inches and a maximum of 3 ft with about 1 1/2 ft most common. Throw in raising it about 8 inches and then lowering and raising the Mepps 4 inches, i.e. keeping it suspended. I vary the lift from vertical to dragging it at a diagonal. Sometimes they will chase it up to 3 ft and sometimes they won't budge from the bottom. I keep varying things until I see what works best. I also tap my foot on the boat floor, if fish move out from under me, in an effort to bring them back. It works about half the time.

nice

Thanks Dennis!

That's is way too much fun, DC and the boys! If you can still catch fish like that who needs stanking deadstick

Those fish are healthy good lookin