harness floats

[rebs]

how many of you guys use the little floats on your worm harnesses ?

just curious if too much hardware spooks the walleyes

I have been using a number 3 blade with 4 beads
I also use the quick change clevises so I can easily change blade color
this setup I use for drifting the niagara river

rebs

[Terroreyes]

Some people are going to think I'm crazy on this one, but it works! I've been using small flourescent superballs on my floating harnesses and some of my trollers. I drill a hole through them, perpendicular to the seam, and then secure them with leader crimps and a small bead on each side about a foot up the line on a 3' harness made of 20# leader. They float great and the super-bright color or the movement seems to be an attractant.
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[Tom (mich)]

I like to use the smaller, round steelhead floats on the front of my spinners. It's around 1 cm or so in diameter. My theory is that it makes it look like it has a head.

[Olyolson]

I use some pretty good sized floats on my harnesses. I like to bulk them up a bit. They also allow me to use a larger blade and more beads and still stay out off the bottom debri. There are alot of big floats on the market. Just look at the Uncle Walt's Wally Pops. They work well on big fish and I beleive it's directly related to the bigger size of the harness. I like catching the "battlestar hogactica" walleyes.

[perchjerker]

I use them quite a bit, like Oly said.

[Kolby]

I mostly use the floats for bulk, It seems inertia takes over with respect to speed and floating objects while trolling (they tend to sink). I'll bend the bottom bouncer wire to influence the spinner to run a tad higher or closer to the bottom. Also the bottom wire will be cut off or modified to change the action of the bait if necessary.

Some that claim floats absolutely work may just be fishing dirty water, or especially deep and the bulked up presentation gets noticed.

I think if one needs to float a spinner/harness substantially higher than a couple of feet off the bottom to catch fish, then a different more precise presentation is in order for the day. Maybe precision cranking. Just my thoughts..


Kolby

[BabeLinder]

luv em

[JCarp2]

Quicker than stringing beads. With identical chrome blades & beads on western erie, I can definitely say there are times when float color (orange vs chart/lime green) makes a huge difference for me. Don't use them on every rig, but most.

If you want to keep the bait up little higher, injecting worm with air can help. Sometimes influence catch rate one way or the other too. Can greatly reduce finding zebra's on one of your hooks in some situations.

Regards,
jc

[RANGER]

I use them quite often, especially when drifting. They keep the bait just above the bottom and is more of an attraction then a distraction when the harness is in the "muck" on the bottom! - IMHO!

[McQ]

I use floats on plain hook snells without a blade, if I want vibration combined with a float I'll use Spin & Glows, makes for a much better presentation. It's a big misconception that floats will keep a bladed rig off the bottom. Best deal of all is to simply pump a little air into the tail of your crawler.

If you truly want your bait to rise up from the bottom take a look around for a product called Thunderhead - this lipped hook will ride at least a foot off the bottom on a 3 foot snell.