If worked properly will artificials generate as many strikes as live bait?
Cant decide wether to use both or one or the other next week when I'm there
Good info from the other posts.
But...................... in July had SonOne and a newby buddy fishing west side of CC bay. I had brought back a self imosed half limit of trout using live shrimp a few days before.
We got out there and fished with live shrimp/Alameda float usually a solid choice to find and catch fish.
3 fishermen, total catch along that area for us........1 trout and 1 skippy.
Had a guy fishing between us and the shore using a jigged paddle tail Cocahoe and was burning the plastic and caught 7 keepers that I know of, maybe more. Caught some undersized as well.
Plastic out caught live bait that morning, there was no tide moving and I'm thinking the trout were reaction biting to a fast moving bait buzzing by them, much like a cat does on moving things. They sure didn't like a nice live shrimp hanging around them.
That's my theory and I'm sticking to it. Could be I was just the lousiest fishermen that day.