Originally Posted By: superfly
Boondoggin started down on The "Sac" in Cali, not the skagit.


But Sac style boondoggin was straight upstream from the boat, literally dragging your goods past all the fish you just ran over with your free-drifting boat.

Same style of boondoggin' they do on the Kenai... literally "draggin' bait" as they like to say. Works OK in the glacial flows as the fish are probably unaware of the boatwith the limited viz. But it sure is a fast presentation... fish gotta grab and go NOW or miss out on the bling that just went by, as in bye bye.

The Skagit guys are the ones that discovered the merits of presenting to the fish running the slots away from the not-quite-free-drifting boat.

Zog may be down on side-drifting as a brainless technique, but it's NOT brainless for the boat operator... just the guy hangin' onto to the rod while the guy on the tiller (or the oars) puts him over all the willing biters.
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