Something different. That’s what just paid off for Brandon Palaniuk. The standard finesse setup for summertime ledge fishing is a Carolina rig or a shaky head rig with a heavyweight jig and magnum-sized worm, both dragged slowly along the bottom.
Palaniuk is giving the otherwise jaded bass a different look, opting for.a VMC Tokyo rig for his soft plastics.
The payoff was a fine cull and 4-pounder in the livewell.
“it just kind of hovers over the bottom for an extra bet of realism,” he said.
All morning, Palaiuk has kept one eye on his Humminbird forward-facing sonar and MEGA 360 technology, specifically looking at different casting angles that make ideal current breaks when it gets cranked up. That is happening now, as TVA is gradually increasing the flow,
