If there's one thing that's always bugged me, it's not being able to learn (online) how to fish a specific body of water for a specific species. Hopefully this acts as a nice intro to it. Glad to answer questions in comments.
Because the waters of the hudson river are incredibly murky at almost any time it's important to keep this in mind. Choose your jigs carefully! You should always fish with an arsenal of lures at your side.
The importance here is color and size.
Two simple rules: Dark day, dark color, bright day bright color. Big jig = big fish.
Pick up some of your favorite jigs, jig heads, and plastics. Here are a few of mine:
My absolute favorite jig is a pink or yellow 1/8oz jig head with a chartreuse 2" gulp minnow bait.
You should pick these up from Cabelas.com
Find structure! You'll be fishing yourself to sleep if you continue fishing the main body of the river or creeks. Any object that protrudes above the water in 10'+ of water will hold fish.
The Hudson has tides! 6 hour tides with a slack tide to separate.
When to fish?
Fish the first two hours of the outgoing and last two hours of the incoming. The majority of baits are getting washed through the tribs during these times. I haven't found that time of day makes any difference at all, but I generally fish first and last light.
How to fish?
Find that structure! Cast a jig into it, letting it sink 50% down. Without reeling, slightly pull your rod up cause the jig to move up and towards you. Then let it sink freely for a 1-2-3-4 count. This will give your jig the flutter/pause motion. Bites will happen on the flutter drop so when you pull your rod back on each pull, be ready to pull back just a bit further should you need to!
thank you so much. I agree with the fact that looking up bodies of water to learn how to fish just doesn't work.
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