Thread: Floating yo-yo rigs

Originally Posted by Fancy Seats

I have a friend in my deer camp who used to fish with some homemade floating yo-yo rigs. They were made of cut out styrofoam for the float and some bent wire that the yo-yo hung from.

Anybody ever seen such a contraption?

He keeps promising to bring me one to look at but he keeps forgetting. Says he used to wear the crappie out on Chicot. I would like to make a few and try them out if anybody has any idea ho to do it.

I made some floating rigs---I cut some 3/4 pvc pipe about 1 foot long and drill a hole in the end that will be the bottom. Got some Walmart stro-foam pool sticks---I call them star wars swords--long things the kids use to hit each other with and it has a hole in the center. I cut them the same length and place the pvc pipe inside the length of stro-foam--run a wire through the stro-foam and the pvc pipe to keep it together or use glue on it.---Cut your line in the desired length--add hooks---weight--Tie your line using the hole you drilled in the pvc---bait them---throw into the water and chase them or come back the next day.---This rig I use can be bought at Walmarts at a much higher expense. I can make 20 of them for about 10 bucks or a little more---it is similar to jug fishing--laws are not the same as YO-YO,s----Water pipe insulation can be used also.---Make them any size you want.---I will post a photo of the ones I use.