Bobbers?!?
 

I quit.

YouTube - 52-54lb Stripers 2008, -Team Old School

When I was a kid and the state pier in Fall River was open we would float large sand-worms with a bobber into the bow of the big battleship. It was on every time. We would catch tons of fish up to 20lbs. The chunks on the bobber were also a big hit there. Incoming to slack was the best. HUGE Tog on the connecting pier also. But those days are way over. But thanks to this bobber post I have a great simple idea that may produce some good fish this year. K-I-S-S. We'll see. BTW it was nice to hear those drags bragging in the video.

Routine for swimming herring from a shallow beach. Guys put lights in them.
Works with eels, too.
Bait is bait.

WHAAAAAAATT??? How would you know this stuff?

he would hide in the woods at the canal and watch the ladyfisherguys sling live herrin into the canal , while repeating wood is good...:love: thats what flap told me.:devil2:...

I've seen this video before. Nice to watch it again to get the juices flowing. We used to use balloons on live bait. Same thing though.

Boy, that's an interesting concept....I wonder if you could catch blackfish that way...:smokin:

i bought several from the people from down south at MSBA, gonna sling me some shad or macks under them

Of course not,that would be absurd.

Used to do the same thing at the Melville pier.

Yeah, you're probably right, Norm...:hihi:

Hey, how ya doin'...:wave:

Living.

Really need some outdoor time that requires me to have a fishing rod in my hands.

Melville was a blast as a kid.

I use to do real well floating green crabs under a bobber in both nauset inlet and the back river in weymouth. I've caught many mid 20 to 30lb fish this way back in my bait days

One of the biggest bass I have ever seen was caught by a guy who spiked a rod in the front of his truck with a bobber the size of an apple, and an eel.
He just sat inside drinking and listening to C & W till the rod went off.

He thinks the same rule applies to plugs:rotf2:

I hope you don't ask me to use one of my bobbers:rotf2:

You ain't kidding.My love of fishing was born there.

Down south we use spreads of 8 to 12 rods, half with eels on bobbers at various depths. What you have to understand is these are transitory fish traveling at various depths. Eels naturally swim down. We fish depths of 100 plus feet, suspending eels at 5,10,15,20,30 ft... The bass might be traveling in the top 10,20,30 ft of the water column... You must keep an open mind and understand what the fish are doing. I have caught many 30,40 lb class fishing eels on bobbers..... It's a different game down south.
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By the way I in no way enjoy fishing this way, but it does put trophy bass in the boat... I do enjoy drifting egg sacs with bobbers for steelhead. The bobber changes the presentation of the egg sac, it is deadly and produces...
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Bait for Stripers...
 

It's for old farts and little kids.:grins:

Real men plug.:uhuh:

how do ya "fix" or "set" the bobber on the line 20 feet up? and still reel in the line? ok, so i'm dumb!

Use a breakaway bobber. There are a few different designs but they basically work like a shark float. I use pool noodle sections and rubber bands.

Bobbers are for girlie men.
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When no one is watching saltys egg bobbers are a cool way to drift off the beach with an offshore wind.