Big M March 25

[Quillback]

Got some bites, but small fish, 22 bass and a couple of short walleye.  Only two keeper spots that squeaked in just over the mark.

Caught more than half on the Ned rig, but maybe another 7 or 8 on the "Free Rig".  Free rig, if you don't know, is basically a Texas Rig, but instead of using a bullet weight, you use a cylinder type drop shot weight.  And the drop shot weight needs to have a wire loop rather than the clip on line tie so the line slides through it.  

I fished it dragging a full Zinker.  Fished the banks in coves dragging it on the bottom, caught one here and there, but mostly spots, thought I would have shot at some sizeable largemouth, but other than a 14" LM, it didn't happen.

Nice thing about the free rig is that it does not snag nearly as much as a T-rig.  

WT was 49, big wind started blowing around 10 AM.

[dtrs5kprs]

27 minutes ago, Quillback said:

Got some bites, but small fish, 22 bass and a couple of short walleye.  Only two keeper spots that squeaked in just over the mark.

Caught more than half on the Ned rig, but maybe another 7 or 8 on the "Free Rig".  Free rig, if you don't know, is basically a Texas Rig, but instead of using a bullet weight, you use a cylinder type drop shot weight.  And the drop shot weight needs to have a wire loop rather than the clip on line tie so the line slides through it.  

I fished it dragging a full Zinker.  Fished the banks in coves dragging it on the bottom, caught one here and there, but mostly spots, thought I would have shot at some sizeable largemouth, but other than a 14" LM, it didn't happen.

Nice thing about the free rig is that it does not snag nearly as much as a T-rig.  

WT was 49, big wind started blowing around 10 AM.

About twenty years ago there was a version that used a brass sinker eye, sort of melted onto a length of paracord, stuffed full of split shot, and melted closed at the other end. Intent was to replace a Carolina rig weight with it.

Worked ok, but never really caught on.

[Quillback]

Used to use the para cord/split shot thing steelhead fishing.  Steelheaders called them "slinkys".  But it was a c-rig style set up, slinky-swivel-several feet of leader with a gob of salmon eggs.  

[dtrs5kprs]

13 minutes ago, Quillback said:

Used to use the para cord/split shot thing steelhead fishing.  Steelheaders called them "slinkys".  But it was a c-rig style set up, slinky-swivel-several feet of leader with a gob of salmon eggs.  

Yep. That thing.