These two methods are deadly on specks
Cold-water fishing for speckled trout requires two things: a deep-water presentation and a slow, naturally moving bait. Lure manufacturer Mark Nichols and Charleston guide Jeff Yates would add an additional element to that formula: a D.O.A. shrimp.
Where the two may differ is exactly how to fish the popular bait.
“I’ve seen Jeff’s technique and know it works,” said Nichols. “Like Jeff, I’m a hard-core fisherman, and since the time I invented the bait, I’ve fished it a 100,000 different ways. Carolina-rigging can be phenomenal, too. I’ ve got a lot of guys who will drop a weight down to the bottom and then rig the bait about a foot or 18 inches above it where they can do the same thing: sweep it in the current but let the weight bounce on the bottom and the bait suspends just off the bottom.”
Nichols said that a secondary selling aspect to the D.O.A. shrimp is the packaging, which allows fishermen to tailor the weighed bait to their own style of fishing.
“It always becomes the kind of thing where you’re wanting the bait to find the water column where the fish live, so you’re adding or subtracting weight to do that,” said Nichols. “That’s what led to our releasing the nine-packs of our shrimp. I had the only shrimp like that on the market for years, then all the US companies went to China and started knocking them off so we started selling the 9-pack of shrimp, which are unrigged. That gives the angler the versatility of fishing it the way they want.”
For more on the D.O.A. lineup of shrimp and other soft plastics, visit www.doalures.com.
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