Fishing Bluff Walls (question for Mike)

[tintriton]

Mike

I saw you speak at red top a year or so ago and you talked about how to isolate your fishing efforts on the bluff walls by finding the active depth and then fishing parallel to the wall at that depth. That makes perfect sense to me but I'm struggling with what exactly a bluff wall is. I was fishing the steep bank on the west side of illinois this weekend but I'm not sure if that is what you were talking about as a "bluff wall".

[Mike Bucca]

tintriton, Technically we don't really have any shear bluff walls on Allatoona. The closest thing we have to a shear bluff wall is the bluff right at the entrance to the Allatoona Yatch club just across from Clear Creek. But when I reference bluff walls I'm pretty much referencing the steeper banks in the S Curves that Allatoona makes. When you are casting distance from the bank and your boat is sitting in 30+ ft of water your fishing what I call a bluff wall.

Hope this helps

Mike

[tintriton]

Thanks Mike

Are there some areas on allatoona that aren't technically bluff walls that you approach using the same techniques as a true sheer bluff walls?

If so what guide lines do you use to determine what's a good bank to fish?

[Mike Bucca]

tintriton, The same tactics that you use on the bluff walls will work on any bank of any lake. How I determine what bank to fish is really a broad question and varies greatly from season to season and would be impossible to cover everything. Sometimes I am so off shore that I don't even fish the bank.

Mike