How To Fish Points To Catch More Redfish, Trout, & Snook
- By: Wyatt Parcel
- on July 23, 2020
Points, like the one pictured above, are some of the best spots to fish year round, but especially during summertime.
Here’s why:
- There is lots of current (which provides cooler water and acts like a conveyor belt at a sushi restaurant bringing predator fish easy meals)
- There is lots of bait available
- There are plenty of ambush spots
But if you really want to be successful at fishing points, it’s more than just knowing that they hold feeding fish… you also have to know how to fish them.
In this video, you’ll learn how to do just that, as well as:
- How to find the best points
- How to position your bait or lure to catch more fish
- How to quickly tell if a point is holding feeding fish
- And much more
We’ve got a lot of fish-catching footage in this video (it’s not just theory!), so I know you’re going to love it.
Check it out below.
How To Fish Points [VIDEO]
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Here are three tips to catch fish around points:
Tip #1: Go with the flow
Fish are looking upcurrent for an easy meal to drift by, so cast your lure or bait upcurrent, and then retrieve it or let it drift down with the current so the fish will be sure to see it coming from the direction where they expect their food to be coming from.
Tip #2: Don’t doubt the drop-offs
Usually the current flowing around points causes a depth change.
These drop-offs are great spots to catch fish, so be sure to fish more than just the shoreline.
And there are usually two types of drop-offs around points: gradual and steep.
Both are great for catching fish, but if you’re fishing a steep drop-off, I recommend employing tip #3.
Tip #3: Use the “3 Cast Pass” rule
When working a point, especially one with steep drop-offs, you want to quickly find out if feeding fish are in the area.
To do that, I use the “3 Cast Pass” rule.
I’ll make three casts, one to the left of the point, one right at the point, and one to the right of the point to see if there are fish around.
If I don’t get any strikes on any of the casts, I’ll move on to the next point.
Sure, I might catch a few fish if I stayed longer, but it’s smarter to spend your time looking for the places where fish are feeding aggressively than to spend it trying to pluck a fish out of a dead zone.
Plus, fish (especially trout) will usually stack up on one section of the point, so this rule lets me quickly find where that section is.
Now, if I’m fishing points with more gradual slopes, these are harder to narrow down where the fish are, so I’ll generally give those points 5-10 casts so I can accurately feel out each section of the slope.
Conclusion
Because of the current, bait, and structure around points, these are some of the best places to catch fish.
Be sure to fish all sections of the point, and retrieve your lure with the current so that it appears natural.
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Thanks for another great video!
Another great video. I really like how you use visuals so we don’t have to to try to figure out where in the video you are talking about. You are showing us right there on the spot what it looks like from your perspective, which many times we can’t see it clearly from a video as you do in person. So all the visuals line, circles, arrows are very helpful.
When you do the three cast, are you doing them with the current or against the current or does it matter? Thanks
Applied what learned from this video and on second cast landed a 16-1/2” trout. Then in the next 10 minutes picked off 3 more. Thank you.
Great points Wyatt. No pun intended! Really good tips with great graphics to illustrate strategy. I always take something away from your videos. Thank you
Great video brother!
Thanks so much Thomas! Glad you enjoyed it!
Very good video Wyatt! Really like the 3 pass rule! What size (weight) jig do you use when the current is really ripping e.g., 3 to 4 knots when fishing the “deep” drop offs? Said another way, what’s the max weight you would ever use?
Typically I use a 1/4th oz jighead but I can bump it up all the way to 3/8ths if it’s really strong current!
Excellent video Wyatt! Thanks!
No problem Kevin! Thanks for watching!
Man, i could of used this video 2 days ago when I took the only 2 hours I could for see for the week with work and weather to get on the water. Choose 5 points and spent way to long fishing them that I only got to 3 of them. shoulda used the 5-10 cast pass as they were gradual drop offs
Time is valuable when out on the water… the 3 cast pass is crucial to quickly finding the feeding zones! Hopefully next trip will be better!
Great video! Thank you
No problem Victor! Thanks so much for watching!
Hey Wyatt, good stuff. Question, at 2:57 when you are talking about the 3 cast pass you demonstrate in your image left, middle, and right of the point to search for fish. In your example I am assuming current is flowing from the top of the image to the bottom of the image so you are retrieving with the current? One of the first things I learned from Salt Strong….don’t retrieve against the current. Thanks
Correct.
Those casts would be how I would fish that point if the current was flowing from the top of the screen to the bottom of the screen (retrieving WITH the current)