Thread: How many spider riggers use a bead on your rod tip?

I thought the same thing.....I am half deaf but amazingly I can hear that bead click against the rod ....and to me a glass bead is louder than a plastic one. I use a 5 mm glass bead

Three trips and haven't heard a bead yet, haven't had a bite either.

Shu - thats the best response to this thread yet..................

Just amazing - 7 pages with varying amount of responses to a way of dedecting when a Spec bites.
Very interesting - entertaining - the amount of thought process gone into this style of fishing. I applaud all that have
answered. I have not tried method yet personally but as soon as body is able - you can make book on it - there will be at
least 10 rods of mine in water with as many ways mentioned from plastic to glass to various sizes - braid and/or
mono line used - location on rods - on main or stretched tight on secondary line - i will employ use of hearing aids on and
off head to detect best sound.
As we age - our sight & sound diminishes -hence we need the added assistance.
I have noticed over past couple years - my reaction time (eye to hand time) to the hit has also dropped off quite a bit.
Still able to know and react to pole (16 ft) being almost bent in half under water -that is a hit, but is also much hard to get
rod out of holder to bring fish in.
Again, a tip of the hat to all that have been involved with this thread - i await with antisipation for each
response -It makes my day much brighter.

As the great fisherman, Shakespeare, once said, "To bead or not to bead, that is the question".

First off..I don't 'spider rig..can only run 3 poles apiece in MI, and I'm usually alone..don't have any looong rod's neither..maybe one day..got me think'n tho, and you fella's might try some spring bobber's..us norther's use them a lot when ice fishing..if ole Mr. Crappie swims by, they will let u know LOL..one of you will figure out how to rig 'em to suit your style..just thinkin' out loud 5

Originally Posted by fiveeyes

First off..I don't 'spider rig..can only run 3 poles apiece in MI, and I'm usually alone..don't have any looong rod's neither..maybe one day..got me think'n tho, and you fella's might try some spring bobber's..us norther's use them a lot when ice fishing..if ole Mr. Crappie swims by, they will let u know LOL..one of you will figure out how to rig 'em to suit your style..just thinkin' out loud 5

Some of us already use bobbers when waves cause to much pole bounce.

It it is the wire with eye on end of it that you attach to rod tip - you run line through so as when fish hits hook or bait
below the spring action of wire under tension jumps up - Possible good for ice fishing - not so sure when spider rigging
with 8 - 10 rods out - haven't seen those since leaving Indiana back in 1993.

How many have just very lightly layed finger tips on eva foam end of rods, just past reels - you can actually feel the
hit before you see the rod tip move....... first tried that about 15 yr ago, teaching of an old timer

Tried 2 beads between 2nd and 3rd guide from tip with guides up and down on main line and had no clicks caught a few fish some hit hard but this did not work for me hoping it would I need all the help I can get