Click or Clack on your slow sinking twitch baits?

[JimD]

Have a couple of jointed floater fat boys in for Christmas.

Hope they put Paul's new weight to cause them to sink like a regular corky fatboy when you want them to. Be nice to weight the weight so you can adjust if you need to.

Still get the feeling that a small weight or larger hook on catch baits to sink like a corky might make a big difference at least in my conficence level winter fishing the reefs on cold water days.

Mid coast this Feb it might be the smaller hooks to cause the catch baits to suspend or become a near floater. So many ideas and so few days to fish.

Have Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

JimD

[Sneekypete]

All my Floating Fatboy Corky's sink at the rate I want them to even the Jointed ones.

[Havens]

Hope they put Paul's new weight to cause them to sink like a regular corky fatboy when you want them to. Be nice to weight the weight so you can adjust if you need to.

Still get the feeling that a small weight or larger hook on catch baits to sink like a corky might make a big difference at least in my conficence level winter fishing the reefs on cold water days.



JimD

If not you can make your own weights. Paul is just using solid solder wire cut in short lengths made into a circle, as seen in Bruce's last post. http://2coolfishing.com/ttmbforum/sh...d.php?t=317394 Go to the local hardware store and buy some solder wire and you can make all the weights you want. They work on other lures as well.

[JimD]

dPop, Easy to add rattles if you need or want to try it both ways. Cannot find the big single rattle Paul uses on the FB sinkers but you can get some of the Academy rattles.

If you look at how Paul set the rattle in the bait you can take the "right size" nail" for your rattle, heat it up and come in on a near parallel angle and melt a hole in the bait to push a rattle into the bait pretty close to how Paul has his.
My rattles are tight in there but can be taken out. I have had a big mad red or trout jump on the bait and knock the rattle out on the fight in. Easy to put a dab of super glue gel or melt a piece back into the hole if you want to close it off.

[plugger]

All good stuff, especially Capt. steve's . I let the plug sink to mid water column and then pump it like crazy to get a water vibration /wounded fish message to any fish in the area ,then try different retrieves . But , what do I know...I haven't posted up any big trout pictures !!

[plugger]

By the way , I have Kevin Cochren's big trout video that I learned that from.....he pumps the corky madly then slowly reels in the corky a few feet and repeats . This in waist deep water or less . He works it a lot faster than I would have imagined.

[dPop]

Trust me I know I can add rattles to them. However they work just fine the way they are. Actually started throwing them more because they do not have rattles and they stay right where I want them in the water.

As far as speed to work a corky. You only need to fish one slow slow slow when that is what the fish want. Anyone that believes that slow slow slow is the only way to go is missing a huge part of the puzzle. Personally I very rarely work a corky super slow.