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Any tips on bobber stops for drennan floats i have tried a small salmon bead on the top and bottom of them but still managed to loose them. Thanks for the help!! :) Casey
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<11024>
Casey, try using the small rubber slip on stops. Be sure to put two on the bottom and that'll decrease your chance of loosing them.
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<11025>
I could use a couple of Drennan's Casey. Maybe I should fish downstream of you next time! ;-)
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<11026>
Bubba it probably wouldnt hurt i wouldnt have a problem "loosing" them for a ride to the vedder.
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<11029>
Learn to tie a 'Bobber-Stopper' knot, which is really just a Uni-Knot, a small bead between that and the bottom of one of those hideously expensive floats and you're all set. If you tie it just right you can still slide it up 'n down the line to change the depth you're fishing at. I prefer Ken MacInroy's floats myself, local product well made and economical.
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<11031>
Knots,Stops? Still lost enough Drennans to pay for gas to the Vedder and a whole wack a Dick Floats, coffee on the way , and McFarts on the ride home.Nice lookin floats, on gin clear one fish runs, but I'll stick too the cheapos! Pays for the gas.
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<11033>
In the uk drennan floats cost about $2 each!
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<11035>
Casey I myself use fire line as my main line so I can get away with just putting 15lb mono above and below my Drennan floats.I have used them for 3 year,s now and I have only lost 2 of them.
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A little trick I learned from a Thompson River steelheader who fished slip floats to get good casting distance. Take a piece of rubber tubing and snip off about 1/8" - 1/4". Put your main line through the hole, loop back and and over the tubing and go through again. Do this three times (making a loop each time all about the same size) then grasp both ends and pull the line tight. Takes a bit of practice to get it right, but when you do, the rubber tubing will "wrap" itself around the mainline and you have a cheap but very effective bobber stop that holds fast but that you can slide up and down the line (make sure the line is wetted first before you slide it).
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Hio, Carl.....you mention 2 items I'd like more info on, please and thank you. 1: Do you use the same diameter as the main line for your float stop knot. 2: Could you e-mail the contact information on Mr. McInroy's products. (There is a very limited supply of Mr. Badjura's floats here.. I see he uses corks. Kewl.)
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The Little Red Book of Knots.... (Thanks for the tips Carl) refers to the float stopper knot....I have comprehension on the theory of the knot and its use...save one little point. OK.... the stop is set for a 10-12 foot *vertical*, not a lining set-up drift...common to tank waters anywhere. You set up the knot at the 10 foot point, rig the float with all the bells, whistle, beads, trinkets. You reel in the line to the 2 foot mark, so that 8 feet of line and its bead is in the rod, and the float is at the rod tip. You cast. What prevents the bead as it clanks its way through the guides, either breaking up, or chipping the guides on the way out. I presume you pick a very small plastic bead? Thanks.
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<15164>
Hmmm... Yes I understand what you're saying. It depends. Sometimes the bead stays outside the rod proper, doesn't enter the guides at all. Sometimes it does enter but is such a small insignificant thing that, guides being made of very hard material, there's no problem. Sometimes the knot itself is big enough to forego using a bead at all. As you say it all depends on the size/quality of the bead. The best bead I ever used was from one of those Rip Tide Striker Salmon jigs they use in the salt, a small dense bead slightly oval. I love fishing a deep drift/hole that way you can put the wool right where you want it, it's fun to imagine the bottom and then learn that what you thought was exactly right, or not (!) Sorry I never got back you re: your last email Canada.com is having some bad problems with their email server so bad they don't even answer their own mail anymore, I've changed my contact address. So in answer to your question I doubt there's any real money in that idea unless you sold them into a large market like the Lower Mainland, or even the USA,. And even the money wouldn't give you any more fishing time, quite the opposite in fact.
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<15171>
Rodger, Carl....no worries on e-mail... and the *duh* switch just went on re the bead...it never occured to me that the bead could remain outside the guides and the stopper knot inside the guides. There is no rodster I know of up here uses a slip float format to first-hand observe....I'd only heard of the style. Any tank scene I fish is is the mainstem skeena, in an anchored boat, where you can sorta lob out a long leader, and send it down a seam. I wanted to try a few in the bulkley from the beach, and there's not too much room for a side arm type cast. Enter the slip float. :-)
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