View Full Version : Finese Bottom Bouncing
Shadman
06-09-2002, 09:20 AM
Saw Wallie's post below and it made me wonder ... i reads something a while ago about Mike Mccleenad unsing bottom bouncers to make finese presentations. I think he was fishing single hook and live bait off the bounding and sitting up front on the electric.
Wouldn't the hook spin around the bouncer like the problem Wallie's saying he has?
Anyone try bouncers for finessing?
Shadman
06-09-2002, 02:10 PM
Just read my question and it sounds like I was drunk ... I wasn't ... I am just not a good typer.
My question is this ... can you finese fish a hook and livebait with a bottom bouncer ... like a lindy rig?
I read that McClelland does this and was curious if anyone else had tried it.
What is the advantage of the bouncer in this type of set up?
Really looking for help on this one
Bret N
06-10-2002, 08:22 AM
The short answer is yes you can. We've been fishing Mille Lacs a bit this spring on the east side and the rocks there are big enough to eat up ANY other type of weight including the lindy no snaggs. So we went to the light bite style bouncer that clips onto the line w/ an over sized changeable spinner clevis placed above your snap swivel(looks like a straight wire w/ lead and a loop at the top that you hook onto the clevis). They work great. You get a bite and you can still feed the line so that the fish don't feel you. Also, they don't get hung up half as much as traditional lindy style weights. I think you can get them as light as 1/4 oz. but those are sometimes hard to find, so we've been using half oz.ers just fine. Hope this helps. Bret
Robert
06-10-2002, 10:20 AM
Lindy rigging is my personal favorite way to fish. Either in a slow drift fast drift, or trolling around. I haven't used the Lindy style sinker for years, lost too many to the rocks.
I switched to bottom bouncers for a while, then found what Bret N mentioned. Northland tackle makes these. 1/2 oz. workes fine most of the time, but when the wind blows hard, I switch to 3/4 zo or even 1 oz. with a spinner. They typically will hit it hard. I have lost a few of these, but not nearly as many as the Lindys. Its a blast to feel that tug-tug-tug on the slow drift.
Glad I found these!
Rob