Thread: Spider rigging with bobbers

And you can use them pushing double minnow rigs, jigs, etc??

Any one you prefer? Round ones, cigar shaped, or does that matter?

I use a oblong cork that snaps on at both ends, use it pushing minners, pulling jigs and pulling cranks. If I have to go to 3 or more ozs due to the waves and wind speed I clip 2 together.

I guess it's something you need to try and see what u like best. I'm not a cork fishermen. If I was fishing a tourney tomorrow I'd hope for 20 mph winds. In my opinion there are very few unkept secrets to catching crappie. So if corks were the answer I would see them. And I don't. Not to say I haven't seen them on occasion but when I do see them I scratch my head. I look at it as a math problem. I like to figure the amount of time my poles are actually fishing in the waves, figure how many bites I can get compared to when it was calm, and compare that to how many I can catch on a cork. Truth is, I can only catch 1 on a cork to 5 without a cork(it's hard watching 8 corks when I can feel four rods and watch four pole tips). So with that said, I'm trying to find water my poles will be fishing 20% of the time in order to beat the cork method. fishing is either odds or luck, I don't trust luck. Btw, none of us should ever be out there in those swells unless we have to. I enjoy finding calm water and trying my luck there...u just never know!

I guess I shoulda said trying my odds and not my luck ��

Originally Posted by Jwater

Any one you prefer? Round ones, cigar shaped, or does that matter?

I like the pear shaped or the egg shaped corks the best to up my ODDS when I can't find the right fish in calm water. It isn't foolproof and doesn't always work, but keeping the bait in the right strike zone in productive water certainly ups your odds of catching fish when they're not very aggressive. Bait in the strike zone 50-60% of the time is much better than 20% of the time when it does work.


BTW, I use round corks also. It just depends on the weight they'll hold up.


BRM

I don't like a weighted cork either, I want to see the cork lay over on a lift bite. I fished the worst conditions I have ever fished in, actually fished not just run down the lake in, and had it not been for the corks we would have been skunked. We had a trolling motor half deployed that never moved after it quit, no way I was planing off in 3 and 4 foot rollers and taking a chance of tearing a 3k trolling motor off the boat. Waves were bad enough that we were taking water over the bow at a fast idle with the bow raised fairly well and the corks did the job. Any other day than tourney day and a dead trolling motor I would not have been there, knew the fish were there, been on them for weeks. Nothing wrong with a cork but to each their own, its not my go to tactic but I sure don't mind fishing with them.

When the wind is blowing that hard, the best cork to use is the one out of a wine bottle. Pop it out with a cork screw, then toss it in the trash. Laugh at those guys bobbing up and down out there and drown away your sorrows!

Seriously though, these guys are leading you right. There's many ways to skin that windy cat and it is certainly another good technique to have in your arsenal. I need to work on doing it some myself.


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