How is this defined?

Are you letting the boat drift backward in the current, occasionally putting the engine in gear to keep the boat straight, and tension of the plugs?

Using the engine to hold in one place for a few minutes, then letting the boat slide down river a few feet, and then holding it again?

Is back trolling a drift boat technique, or do jet boats also back troll?

Depends on the flow.......I use a 8 HP to "backdown" the river, the motor is in gear all the time. Now, as the flows get less and less, the motor is still running.....but I use the "shift" to go from forward to neutral, thus keeping the boat going down river.

I don't like fishing when the river flow is way down.

10' per minute..

Kicker motors will not spook the fish?

No more than a main motor.

There are all sorts of sounds carrying through the water. I would worry more about your boat being seen than heard.

Do some back troll with the main engine?

Sure. But I just meant the presence of power boat traffic in any given fishery. A low idling kicker isn't incredibly noisy and your plugs are going to be out and away from the boat/motor and will reach them before the motor is over them. Backtrolling works and there isn't much way of getting around the noise of the kicker unless you're rowing a db. I wouldn't trouble my self with such things as kicker motor noise. Many plugs that are back trolled have a rattling system to them, adding more to the noise and irritation.

With that said, you wouldn't wanting to go ripping up river 35 mph than back/fish over that same water. Common sense I suppose.

Thank you for all the advice.

Back Trolling: The boat and gear are trolling trolling up current, while going downstream over over the bottom.

Back trolling is putting enough pressure on your plugs to work good while still backing down a drift. By using the sticks of a drift boat or the use of a kicker motor on a sled.Good luck,


SZ

"Sticks" refers to 2 or more "oars", or "rowerers".

You gotta go up to go down. Just meant I wouldn't come in super hot right over the top if it were a small section I was fishing.

Ummmm......... WRONG!!!!

Ummmmm......WRONG!

Im not an expert so I guess I shouldn't have tried to answer his questions. I have a lot to learn too. Care to help me where I'm wrong?


I'm fully aware there are more knowledgeable and accomplished fisherman than me here. 2many included.

I catch fish back trolling and have taken advise from guys who have done it a lot longer than me with success, maybe I have been doing it wrong though. I just never saw creating a commotion over a whole was a good thing, no matter what the technique.


So, am I correct in saying you guys would rather run over the top of fish then back into them rather than backing into fish that have never had boat traffic over them? Even with bait?

I guess I have always thought that was the benefit and purpose of being the first on the watera as in the case of a db at the top of a run.

Timber is correct @ times the fish need to be run over to get them to bite when hunkered down. However its good practice to not run fish over before fishing the drift like 2many is saying. Good luck,

SZ

That's something I wouldn't have thought of. I know some old time plunkers, not snaggers, thst insisted throwing rocks turned on a bite in addition to relocating them. I my self have a hard time throwing stones where I plan to fish.

I can dig it.