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anybody have much success with this? I remember seeing one style of cork for this that performed almost like a planner board. i don't know if it was a gimmick or not, i'm thinking this style of feeshn might provide better hookups when fish hit hard in shallow water. Any ideas or suggestions?
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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That's what folks used to say about spider rigging and longlineingQuote:
Originally Posted by feelay
Just never saw an advantage to pushing corks, just an extra expence and more rigging. I love using them to cast a jig.
I've caught fish when no one eagle was catching them. Remember Eagle lake Feelay? I was Pushing corks, not up under piers like some were and took 2nd place. MOST teams didn't even get their 7 that day and we had 12 good fish
Who won that Eagle Lake tournament DD and how were they fishin? HAHAHA!!!!
YOU DID by a tenth of a pound, and you was UP UNDER the piers man. I couldn't believe that an hour before daylight there were boats covering those 2 piers like that.
My grandson won't fish any other way. He's been known to catch a few
I love watching that cork go down. Reminds me of when me and my dad would go bream fishing
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Originally Posted by DonDon
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Bill Burnett
870-635-0202
We sell XPRESS, EXCEL, and ALWELD Boats. Yamaha, Suzuki, Evinrude, Mud Buddy, and Tohatsu/Nissan Engines.
Pro Staff, Southern Pro Tackle and Ozark Rods.
Member, Tri-State Crappie Anglers