Thread: Jig under a cork for shallow water...

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I have fished for crappie only twice in my life. The second time I went with a guy that seemed to know what he was doing. I did use an ultr light spinning rod and reel that time and caught a ton of them. But I really love my level wind rod and reels. I have a Quantrum Code, small level wind, I put 6# line on it with a sliding bobber that I can cast with it. Plastic and may be to big, don't know. Was thinking about using a split shot as a bobber stop maybe a foot or so above the jig. Anyone ever do that and how did it work? Could just use the ultra light spin set up and save the casting for small plugs I guess. I did catch a crappie one time by accident using a 1/4 oz lead jig with a curly tail fishing for bass. Sounds like 1/4 oz is really to big though.









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Originally Posted by Don Fischer

I have fished for crappie only twice in my life. The second time I went with a guy that seemed to know what he was doing. I did use an ultr light spinning rod and reel that time and caught a ton of them. But I really love my level wind rod and reels. I have a Quantrum Code, small level wind, I put 6# line on it with a sliding bobber that I can cast with it. Plastic and may be to big, don't know. Was thinking about using a split shot as a bobber stop maybe a foot or so above the jig. Anyone ever do that and how did it work? Could just use the ultra light spin set up and save the casting for small plugs I guess. I did catch a crappie one time by accident using a 1/4 oz lead jig with a curly tail fishing for bass. Sounds like 1/4 oz is really to big though.









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I use BB size shot under the float an inch or to above my jig to keep the small loop knot from going up into the float and hanging the jig at the float. Works fine


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Originally Posted by Grainraiser

This method is deadly when fishing the spawn along a rip rap bank. I like the Trout Magnet floats because they are the smallest floats I can find that can be used as slip floats. I rig them with a 1/24 jig head and this combo works great. At my local lake the spawning crappie are never more than 6ft from the bank. A old timer taught me to not cast toward the bank but to cast parallel to the bank to keep you bait in the strike zone much longer. I can't wait for spring to get here.

I got some round cork float's from the Bi Mart. maybe 3/4" across and really light. Look like they are made for slip float's.

Originally Posted by jawjatek

Tried it yesterday and learned something about slip bobbers: you need a bobber stop, split shot, or swivel between jig/bait and bobber so that when you get a snag and break off your jig, the bobber stays on the line, and you don't have to paddle over there and get it. Well, unless you snag the swivel, etc, anyway.

What I do is tie a leader of about 18" of line lighter than my main line, so that way when //////I snag up that leader breaks and all I loose is the jig. Even though I went to a local winery at the end of a wine tasting and they gave me around 75 wine corks I'm making into slip floats and could stand to loose a few...

Originally Posted by jawjatek

So how are y'all rigging this? I tried it with a Betts sliding float and bobber stop. I added a swivel above the jig to stop the bobber from falling all the way to the jig. Not sure if I really need that. I also have some clip-on spring loaded floats, but those become hard to cast at depths deeper than the rod is long. Right now the fish are pretty deep. Will try it out this week.

I use a sliding 1/16- 1/32 worm weight that sits on top of a swivel snap. I use my premade 18inch leaders that have a loop on one end, and a jig on the other.I can change out any combination of jig/leader just by attaching the loop onto the snap.

Originally Posted by Yaker

Jig under a float has always produced well for me,not only for panfish but fish right on up to catfish.Dragging a tipped jig under a float across beds is killer.

For catfish? That makes sense. I hear about people catching channel cat's on bass trout plugs and lure's they were using. Then I read here just a few days ago about the bobber that holds the bait off the bottom for channels. using the slip bobber and crappie jig I've caught several bass fishing for crappie! I'm really new to crappie and slip bobber's so this surprised me some. I have though recently about trying for bass with a slip bobber in the John Day River here near home. Seem's to make sense. The bobber float's with the currant and holds the jig off the bottom. Steelhead fishermen here in the NW use a bobber rig for steelhead, just not a slip bobber. I recall fishing for trout years ago in Germany on a military rod and gun club lake. Small stream going out of the lake and I couldn't keep the bait from hanging up on the bottom. Tried a bobber and it worked out super. keptthe bait off thebottom and floated it right to the fish. For crappie in the lake I notice with the bobber in shallow water with some ripple in the water, it's dynomite! What ever the bobber does the jig does! The bobber's I really like are little cork balls I found in the local Bi Mart. Really small and they move really easy in the water. I don't see anyone else using them. In fact the guy that got me going last year doesn't use them and doesn't use the slip bobber. Deffinate advantage I see to the slip bobber is the ability the fist down much deeper and the bobber is always near the bait when casting. That beats having 6 feet of line hanging on your rod because the bobber stops it at the rod tip. Another thing I might mention. I have a bunch of bobber stops I bought. Don't need to buy them again. Figured out I can tie my own using some very thing yarn I found and they work the same. That will save me .38 cent's toward an new reel!