Reply With Quotethe smallest you can see and will support your jig while still being super easy to go under. i reccomend a 7-9 foot rod for cast floats because you have to take up slack quickly
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I've always spider rigged with tight lines. When I come to Conway I may try the rod and reel thing casting a jig with a slip float.
I was wondering how to figure how big a float is needed for the amount of weight being used on the line?
I have some wine bottle corks [my brother makes wine] that I can trim and sand, and paint the top to bout any small size I need.
I would like to use just enough float to not let the crappie feel any resistance of the float, am I on the right thought about this?
I think I may cast, let sit, slowly reel back to the boat. I'm gettin it worked out in my big ole head, if the crappie will go along with it, what say yall?
I can't wait to get on Conway, been wantin' to fish it for years. Last night while sleeping, I wasn't counting sheep jumpin' over the fence, I was counting black crappie jumping on my jig...shoot I had to lay down in the boat to tie a jig on so they wouldn't see it, and jump it, I got it bad guys, real bad. banghead
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the smallest you can see and will support your jig while still being super easy to go under. i reccomend a 7-9 foot rod for cast floats because you have to take up slack quickly
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Fishing depths longer than the rod you are useing is difficult, so I go to a slip bobber then...and I do like long rods,,for the same reason stated above..
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For the infrequent times I use a bobber it is usually a Thill slip bobber on a 8.5 ft ultralite with 4# P-line.
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Cowboy check your pm's.
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Thanks guys, I have a 5 1/2 ft ultra lite, and a 7 ft med. rod, so if most of Conway is 6 to 8 foot, the 7 foot rod would do then.
I have lot of 12 foot b&m pro trolling poles, with spinning reels on them.
Thanks......cowboy
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I like the crappie slip floats that Thill has out....you buy them by jig size and that way they float perfect.
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