With OCWMO comming in a couple of weeks I’m currently full velocity ahead carrying out what I can to prep for it. As with any tournament down the road on my calendar I start off by some simple maintainence of the tackle. In tournies it can make no feeling to skip the fundamentals. I don’t treatment wether its a gillion dollar monster or a pleasant dock point… When I say basic I suggest just that. No brainer things. Refreshing line, refreshing knots, refreshing wind ons, new swivels. A very good solid clear and lube of all the transferring pieces falls into this class too. Loosening the rolers on the guides or the bail rolers on spin reels is some thing easy but usually more than looked. Tightening reel clamps and seats is one thing to do also. No make a difference how tight it was the vibrations of travel has a way of shakin things loose.
Now that simple stuff is completed and we can move on. OC for me is hard. Brutal even. I work it freelance and by no means know what I am gonna have in the way of a boat or crew. The way I have come to deal with this greatest is to cover all possible bases… Needless to say I am going to carry the regular white marlin goodies to this a single. Tld 25’s, the dredges, the daisy chains, the circle dink rigs tied on light leader…
But……………..
Its turn out to be obvious to me that even with best efforts explaining what to do and how to do it to anglers not familiar with the very good factors of this typically demanding sport, they some occasions never get it. Yet another situation is some never want to play the white marlin unique game. So, its time to broaden the bag of tricks. A set of tuna toys gets packed along. A &quothero or zero&quot blue marlin set will get extra. A &quotMixed&quot set fills but a lot more area in the bag of death.

Then people sets want to be very good tuned to different spreads for differing problems. Tough drinking water, relaxed h2o… Heavy, light… Early light, mid day, afternoon… Even &quotshallow drinking water&quot or off the edge sets. Now with as several baits as we operate its effortless to get baffled. My mate can comprehend my mumblings and generally has some concept of what will be utilised wherever and when. The piece jointly crews though by means of no failt of their very own will locate that reading my head isn’t often that straightforward. So for them I make up a &quotplaybook&quot. I diagram each spread we will probable use. Every bait placement, what the bait will be, what rod it will go on, and even which holder it will be fished from are correct on paper to help them comprehend…

Before and during all this &quotphysical prep&quot is &quotthe other things&quot. Now I know youre almost certainly sayin what the hell does Deep imply by that? Well its simple. Start tracking fish and water effectively in advance. For makos I start off straining my eyes on the temp charts entirely a month just before game time. For other tournies up north that month rule also applies… When I say track drinking water. Go to the temp charts and not only see exactly where it is but mark down wherever it was too. This allows you to… lets say it with each other… know wherever its going to be.
Drinking water in of by itself is important but adhere to the catches. Go to local reporting sites. Hell, proper right here you can get an outstanding view of whats cooking through reviews. Negative studies are just as beneficial as the excellent ones lead to you can also figure wherever they’re not going to be and conserve your time and fuel…
Other stuff can and for me does imply&quotKnowing how your levels of competition fishes&quot. So if you know boat &quota&quot is catchin and you know how he fishes you’ll know not only what hes caught but probable how and wherever he did it.
Other stuff also means mapping out where you can cover the most lucrative ground in the most effective way. It permits you to know in advance which spread you will begin with and wherever and when to swap up to the up coming very good tune of it… This will get back again to what boat youre gonna have below you in a given tourney. Say I have a sluggish one… I know I’ll be quick of &quottarget&quot at lines in time. What I may possibly do to counter that and not waste fishing time nonetheless working is to deploy a &quotmud spread&quot developed far more for the shallow drinking water fish than the ones we’re probably to locate when we get to the deep. Ita a spread that will enable you to fish straight line quicker than you may well when you want to start off &quotworking&quot an region. As a side note this &quotmud spread&quot has coughed up some fine &quotsurprise&quot fish for me through the a long time so often count on the un anticipated…

Adequate of &quotme&quot and how &quotI&quot do the leg operate prior to the online game. Lets hear from you what I am leaving out of the discussion. Both by blunder or by design and style… 🙂