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What principle?
As the name suggests, this technique consists of animating your soft lure by pulling it with your rod, usually at high amplitudes, to lift it off the bottom and let it sink naturally, the critical moment when almost all bites occur...
The aim is to get the soft lure into action with long pulls that cause powerful vibrations, allowing bass to locate the lure, then offer an "easy" attack window as the lure descends as naturally as possible. This animation imitates a fish fleeing from the bottom very quickly to the surface, then falling back slowly to its death.
The principle is simple, but practice requires time and a few lost lures!
Spotlights
Although it's possible to fish from the shore, in certain configurations (steep banks offering a deep spot just a few meters from the bank), traction fishing is mainly practiced from a boat, in areas often between 8 and 20 meters deep. But traction is only one technique, so it can be adapted to any depth, from 3 m to 35 m, depending on the weight of the fish!
As a general rule, traction is designed to catch fish stuck in strong currents. Glued to the bottom behind ridges of sand, rock heads or wedged into a rift to protect themselves from the current and save energy.
Positioned like this, all they have to do is rise briefly in the water to grab a prey item (in this case our lure) carried by the current. However, when in full activity, bass can also be lifted off the bottom from these same positions. However, big, lazy fish stay as close as possible to the substrate and won't climb too high to retrieve a lure that has been lifted off the bottom... So stay close to the lure.
With fewer currents...
While pull-fishing is particularly suited to areas with strong currents, it also works very well in very calm areas. However, I tend to use softer shads, softer animations and above all to continue my animations in the water column to get the bass to rise.
Shad or Sandeel
Troll fishing is done with either shad or sandeel lures, depending on the area fished and the prey present.
The use of soft sandeel-shaped lures is much more appropriate for ridin fishing: Blue equille or Crazy Eel for example!
As far as shads are concerned, as a general rule they should be chosen with a fairly high, round, stocky belly to promote rolling (tilting from right to left to show the lure's sides) and with a fairly wide, rather thick and rigid caudal fin so as not to stall in the current and send out strong vibrations that can be picked up by bass from a distance.
In addition, when mounting shads, they are tilted on the lead head before gluing (see photos). In this way, the water presses harder against the back of the lure during pulls, accentuating rolling and making it more attractive.
I particularly like the Nitro Shad for dynamic fishing and the Blue Shad for slower, more powerful pulls.
Now that you've got a clearer picture of this technique and the areas in which it can be used, let's take a look at how to put it into practice.
