Capt. George Beckwith said there will be days when surface action on false albacore may be lacking, with just a few scattered fish breaking.
There are more of them around, he said, they’re just feeding down in the water column. One tactic he uses to get them to the surface is chumming, using frozen glass minnows.
“A lot of times you’ll mark them on your depthfinder but they won’t be at the surface,” Beckwith said. “I get a lot more bites chumming them. If you can get them aggressive with the chum, they’ll stay with it a long time.”
Beckwith said he recognized the power of chum on false albacore on one trip when he found a big school of fish following a shrimp boat, cleaning up the by-catch as it was tossed overboard.
“We hooked one, then we started chumming, and we pulled the school away from the shrimp boat,” he said. “That’s why sometimes you don’t want all that bait around. They’ll come to chum.”
Editor’s note: This article is part of the King Albert’s Throne feature in the November issue of North Carolina Sportsman. Digital editions can be downloaded right to your computer or smartphone.
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