Thanks StormN, nice to have help from the computer literate - lets try this again:



JasonS, it sounds like you do about what I do - I chase the bottom of the bait balls with my booger ball also - except for the bit about trolling shallow in the early AM - now I do that for returning fish all the time, but almost never for blackmouth, although I will admit my first fish this year was caught in the dark on opening day under a shallow stack of bait at about 32 feet. But that was bait and fish chasing - yep, saw him right there - never about heading down the drift shallow. But y'know, that one and one other on the bottom but at the shallow end of the drift were the only two I hooked at 0 dark 30 so far this year, so you may be onto something.

When I do fish shallow, or if I have a crowd and someone needs to flatline, I use a diver instead of a big chunk of lead - I've got a 4 ouncer that will dive as deep as a pound of lead and is a lot more fun if you get a fish on.

Sure are lots of blackmouth ideas to go around