Thread: thinking of trying to push corks and jigs this next spring

Check with Corker on the VA board as this is the only way he fishes

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Lots of folks use corks while spider rigging when the water is rough and causing the boat to rise and fall a lot.

We do that a good bit actually. With a little slack in your line I feel that the fish will have a second longer to swallow the hook, especially when they're light biting. I use them a good bit when it's windy and my rod tips are bouncing up and down to my as well. Keeps the minner stiller. I use these corks.
They have a spring on one end and you can get them in sizes big enough to where you can have a 1/2 oz weight on them and they'll still float. I like to match my corks size with the weight I have on. I want it to be just a big enough float where it still floats. They stand straight up but when a fish takes it up on a bite, the corks will lay flat so you know you're got a bite.

Only Gewbers push corks

beats my rod tip bouncing up and down 4 feet

Feesh, I have seen a guy on Butla a couple times using those corks your talking about. They look about 6-8 in long and also saw them on a YouTube video if I recall correctly. They can be set like you said to be run like a plainer board. They guy I saw on Butla had his outside poles pulling out to the side quite a bit. And the rest running in front of the boat.

I use a cork that'll hold up a 1/2 weight in the wind when I pull chains. It keeps the bait in the strike zone much longer by dragging the cork back instead of jerking a tight line up and down with the waves. It only works when you're fishing shallower than the rod is long. I attach the float on the clip at the bottom of the float at the depth I need it. Slip corks don't work for this. I learned this technique at Reelfoot from Ronnie and Steve.


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Originally Posted by feelay

Only Gewbers push corks

That's what folks used to say about spider rigging and longlineing