An Odd Question

[tjm]

I bet I've looked up "ned rig" 20 times and right this minute I can't recall what old stand by that it refers to, but, I'm not going to look it up again. "Drop shot" is a little easier to understand but it ain't a new or even recent technique, was doing that with live bait in the '50s. In the '70s was doing it with flies in fast water.

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1 hour ago, MOPanfisher said:

Heck I read about Ned Rigs for months thinking, nah I don't need any new fangles gizmos.  Finally looked it up, crap same stuff I have used for years, didnt know it "cool" name.  I will usually Google search for stuff I don't know, but sometimes you get a whole list of items that are not even close.

But you weren’t using elastec back then.  It makes a difference. 

[BilletHead]

2 hours ago, fshndoug said:

Wrench your head is flat,is there a fish lurking close by?

         Is that a typo? Maybe fat instead of flat?  

[fshndoug]

I promise I won't do that Wrench.

 

[fshndoug]

could be both I suppose Billethead.

[MOPanfisher]

Likely true but I sure caught a lot of fish in creeks and rivers on a "do nothing" rig long before I ever heard of Elaztech.  Now o have a whole box dedicated to Ned and don't use it, but by golly I have it.  Of course I also have a whopper popper I bought during chemo recovery that has never seen water.  Some day, some day.

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22 minutes ago, MOPanfisher said:

Likely true but I sure caught a lot of fish in creeks and rivers on a "do nothing" rig long before I ever heard of Elaztech.  Now o have a whole box dedicated to Ned and don't use it, but by golly I have it.  Of course I also have a whopper popper I bought during chemo recovery that has never seen water.  Some day, some day.

I know I have a box of old grubs in the basement but that ned rig can flat catch em. 

[fishinwrench]

I gotta back @snagged in outlet 3 up, there was no "Ned rig" before elaztec came along.

Gitzit's and the old Mann's Stingray grub does not make the cut.   Brewer's 4" Slider technique though?...... Yeah pretty much the same animal.  I'd put that up against anyone fishing a Ned rig.

[kjackson]

I just finished re-reading Brewer's book on his do-nothing technique, and one version he mentions is the "reverse" do-nothing--where you cut off the tail of the worm and thread to head portion of the worm on the jig.  That is very Neddish...and something that dates from the '60s.  There are many old methods of finesse-style fishing that aren't talked about any more but still work.  It's all marketing and popular perception.  I love the hype on the "Damiki rig", for instance, again, it's marketing.

 

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1 hour ago, kjackson said:

I just finished re-reading Brewer's book on his do-nothing technique, and one version he mentions is the "reverse" do-nothing--where you cut off the tail of the worm and thread to head portion of the worm on the jig.  That is very Neddish...and something that dates from the '60s.  There are many old methods of finesse-style fishing that aren't talked about any more but still work.  It's all marketing and popular perception.  I love the hype on the "Damiki rig", for instance, again, it's marketing.

 

Yes but the old plastics didn't float like Elastek.