Thread: Please explain Rango

I've done a good bit of Crappie fishing that consist of dropping trees, wait a couple weeks, drop a jig or minnow, catch mr. crap and move to the next pile. I'm interested in this bottom bouncing rig I've heard about. Any chance of getting a picture of the rig? I'm assuming that this equipment is heavier than the normal set-up. Any info is well appreciated. This is the time of year I like to fish because there's no water fleas and not too many Cruise Ships.

Originally Posted by 3kidsfishin

I've done a good bit of Crappie fishing that consist of dropping trees, wait a couple weeks, drop a jig or minnow, catch mr. crap and move to the next pile. I'm interested in this bottom bouncing rig I've heard about. Any chance of getting a picture of the rig? I'm assuming that this equipment is heavier than the normal set-up. Any info is well appreciated. This is the time of year I like to fish because there's no water fleas and not too many Cruise Ships.

i dont have a photo of how i rig the bottom bouncer but will do my best to explain how i tie it. not much to it really. the rods im using this year(9 ft ugly stick spinning rods, rated from 4 to 20 lb line. this is the same rods i been drifting for stripers with, not the 9 ft ugly stick crappie rods i used last year and the rods i nightstalk with. these are stiffer rods able to handle the 2 oz wts and still sensitive enough to where i feel ill be able to see the bite) are loaded with 12 or 14 lb test line so thats the line ill be using. at the end of the line i tie a small snap swivel then i go up the line a foot and half or two and tie a loop knot, cut the line and tie on a crapie hook with a couple inches of line from the knot to the hook. to keep things from tangling when traveling to and fro from the lake, ill hook the snap swivel in a eye of the rod, tighten the line and use a small rubber band looped around the rod and stretched to the hook. this keeps everything neat and tidy while im traveling . once on the lake, unhook the line, and put a bell sinker of your weight choice. last year i used 3/4 and this year im using 2 oz inline trolling sinkers snapped to the end of the line to the swivel. now all you gotta do is get in the channels and set em out and start your drifting. theres two different ways ill drift. the object is to get the boat speed slow enough your bait will stay next to the bottom. if the wind is blowin, which it usually is, however you slow your boats drift down will work. i use two drift socks. one off each end to drift sideways or if i wanna go straight ill put em both off one end. this year im gonna try trolling into the wind with the ap motor. ive noticed i had a gread deal of boat controll doing this striper fishing at wateree and im able to keep the speed down where i want it with the ap. the reason i went from 3/4 oz to two oz was it is gonna allow me to drift a little faster(not too fast tho .2 to .5 mph will do fine) and still keep the bait deep. start your drift and keep a bouy handy and once you find em, toss the bouy and work the area real good. the bouy gives you something to relate to. its a dynamite way to catch em in cold weather when they start hugging the bottom. two years ago we found em in a 52 ft hole about 20 yards wide. the fish was in there by the hundreds and as long as we stayed right over em, we was catching fish, get into the shallower water around this hole and they wasnt biting. strange thing is our depth finder wasnt showing the fish. its not hard and once you find em, look out