Quote Originally Posted by Jim Smith View Post
Couple of questions coming from someone who’s experience in using floats is limited to using 3/4 inch red and white bobbers. Do you plan on using the TM jig heads? What lines would be good to use these type of floats? Would you be using one of your JDM rods and why?
My setup will be 4# test line with a diameter of .148mm.....a .5 gram Daiwa Gekkabijin jig head #8 hook with Trout Magnet body. The rod will be the 18 Corto 610 ajing rod...very rigid and very fast. My plan by using 4# test line and the stiff rod is to get them out and turned toward me before they can wrap me around the growth. That is the plan anyway. If I need to add weight to the float I will do that also. From what I gather about the proper way to fish these floats is I only want a slight portion of the top visible. By having it almost at neutral buoyancy you can detect the slightest bite. At least this is the plan anyway....LOL. One thing for sure...this lake will fish far different than it has in many years. I can only imagine all the fish on all that cover. The last time I fished the lake at full pool out of a boat was about 20 years back. According to TWRA when lakes are brought back up to full pool after a lengthy draw down the fishing will be off the charts good for 3-5 years. The past few times this past year I was out on the lake I kept trying to imagine what the spots I was fishing would look like if the water was 20 feet deeper. The amount of growth on the bank in the past 10 years had been crazy. It is going to be interesting for sure.

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