Schools suspend over main lake structure points, humps, channel edges typically in 15 to 30 feet of water
No doubt it was learned that attaching the line to a tree limb hanging out over the water took a better, shock absorbing beating than bare hands
Casting and bottom hopping also lets you work areas that are too shallow for getting on top of with your boat and to reach fish with a spoon from the shore or a fishing pier
It seems that the Canal can fish almost at any time of year, but the purposes of visiting anglers, think about late May, June and July especially for the bigger stripers, with big numbers of fish of all sizes in summer especially
Because bite-shortened hooks have minimal discard effects, these areas closed off from fishing pressure could potentially open up to recreational anglers if fishing methods used were only those that produced little-to-no post-release mortality