04-18-2018, 02:51 PM
[#0000FF]If you are not feeling the hits...even with a heavier sinker on your line...chances are that they are not channel cats. But rigging with a sliding sinker or setting them up as a short dropshot above the sinker will change that too. (see diagrams)
When big channels are active there is no nibbling. They "gulp and go"...dragging sinkers and stealing untended rods. Only rarely are they delicate or finicky enough that they pick at the bait.
I have seen tank banglers at Utah Lake who tie two or three big sinkers together at the end of their line and then add a six inch snelled hook leader. And they caught fish. In fact, I saw one of them almost lose a rod. So it would be difficult to use TOO MUCH weight...short of an anvil.
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When big channels are active there is no nibbling. They "gulp and go"...dragging sinkers and stealing untended rods. Only rarely are they delicate or finicky enough that they pick at the bait.
I have seen tank banglers at Utah Lake who tie two or three big sinkers together at the end of their line and then add a six inch snelled hook leader. And they caught fish. In fact, I saw one of them almost lose a rod. So it would be difficult to use TOO MUCH weight...short of an anvil.
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