To me it doesn’t matter what method a person uses to catch fish. I just like catching em. Legal methods of course.
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will use some of these suggestions as I am more of a tight line jig dude but fish from bank quite a bit and need to get better at bobber fishing as all the crappie guru's on my home lake use them and catch lot more fish consistantly than I do.
To me it doesn’t matter what method a person uses to catch fish. I just like catching em. Legal methods of course.
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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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Thanks!
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...
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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!
[QUOTE=CliffordN;3570193]Something else I failed to mention in the original post is that the cork also allows you to leave the jig in a productive area for a long time, if the bite is slow... It is just hanging there right in their face, and sometimes that will bring a strike after a bit.[/QUObber just a bit but pretty much stay in the same place.TE]
I found with my little round cork float's, if the water is still and the cork is not moving at all, I can twitch the rod tip just a bit and it will move the bobber just a bit but leave it in the same place. I can see the bobber stop leave's the bobber just a bit then settles back down when the bobber is still again.