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| I am going to go fish the River near Merrill saturday evening night for a few hours. I plan on casting for Musky of course buy I was also going to pick up a couple of suckers and have them go along behind the boat since it is the river and I can troll.
How do you guys rig them? Under a bobber? Use any weight to get them down or leave them natural on the quick strike rig? |
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Location: Wisconsin | i fish that stretch and with how shallow that is i wouldnt use any weight. the water is way down and you will be fishing in 3-4 feet on average, so no weight is needed. I just use a large bobber with a quickstrike rig. |
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Location: Right behind you (tap, tap) BOOO | I personally would use a small balloon (water balloon type) instead of a bobber. |
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Location: Bloomingdale, IL | esox23 - 8/24/2012 10:52 AM
I personally would use a small balloon (water balloon type) instead of a bobber.
Whats the reason for that? Im new to sucker fishing and cant think of any advantage to a balloon over a quick strike rig bobber. |
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Location: Right behind you (tap, tap) BOOO | You don't have to deal with a heavy bobber or the distance between the sucker and the bobber. Ideally when a fish takes the sucker the balloon will go underwater and when you set the hook the balloon pops and you have none of that to interfere with fighting the fish.
Oh and they are cheap, I mean given the cost of a sucker these days saving any amount of money when sucker fishing is a plus for me. LOL |
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| I will actually be on Lake Alexander, part of the river but a little deeper. Anybody know if either bait shop in Merrill has suckers? I know backwater usually does but I think there is one on 107 that is more on the way. |
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| Since nobody else has mentioned it...why are you using a bobber? If you have a rell with a bait clicker, just leave it open with the clicker on. It will hold the fish in place at slow trolling speed and if a fish hits you'll hear the reel sing to let you know. Set the hooks as soon as you can. Recommend the Sumway Clip and Go rig. |
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Location: Wisconsin | bobbers can be used for depth control as well as sorting out the grand question: "Is that a muskie or just a snag..." |
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| Ended up not being able to get any suckers. Pretty slow day on the river. Fished from 4:30 till about 8:30 pm. Caught a carp on my bulldawg and had one fish blow up on my topraider right by the boat at about 8:15...to dark to see what it was.
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| smbrickner - 8/27/2012 9:16 AM
Ended up not being able to get any suckers. Pretty slow day on the river. Fished from 4:30 till about 8:30 pm. Caught a carp on my bulldawg and had one fish blow up on my topraider right by the boat at about 8:15...to dark to see what it was.
you caught a carp or you snagged a carp?  |
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| Snagged, both hooks through the back, completely unintentional. |
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| Do a site search on the subject and you'll find a couple interesting and specific presentations you could consider. |
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Location: north central wisconsin | We use inlie styrofoam home made floats for that stretch of river. Using floats small enough so that a large sucker can take them slightly under when chased, seem to be the perfect size. Inline make them adjustable, and best for the river situation. I wouldn't fish without a float down there. |
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Location: Forest Lake, Mn. | Thill Brand makes some nice balsa large sized slip bobbers. You can rig yourself up with a quick strike rig and use a slip bobber. This is basically the same idea as using a slip bobber and a bobberstop for walleyes but you are up sizing the bobber because of the large sucker. You can set the depth by where you put the bobberstop on the line. |
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