10-22-2008, 12:45 AM
A trick that works really well for me when I take my grandkids fishng is to use a piece of nightcrawler and a miniature marshmallow. Rig it like this. Get some 1/2 oz. slip sinkers (the kind that look like a football & have a hole through the middle), run your line through the hole & tie on a snap swivel (the little safety pin looking thing) so the sinker can slide freely on the line but stop at the snap swivel. then make up a section of leader about 12 to 14 inches long with a loop on each end. Put a size 6 snelled hook on one end of the leader and hook the other end into the snap swivel. Bait the hook with just a piece of nightcrawler and a mini marshmallow. Toss it out kinda gently so as to not throw the bait off the hook and let the sinker settle to the bottom. Take up the slack in your line just until you can feel the sinker then allow about 6" of slack. The marshmallow will keep your worm & itself up off the bottom & out of any weeds in plain sight of the fish. the line will slide easily through the sinker when a fish takes your bait and you will notice the slack going out of your line before the fish feels the weight of the sinker and spits the bait out. The rest is up to you. Good luck & have fun.
If you want to PM me with a phone # where I can contact you, I'll give you a call one of these days & we can go to a local pond or maybe take my boat to a lake & I'll give you all the knowledge about fishing that I can. Shouldn't take but 20 maybe 25 minutes to do that & then we can try & catch some fish.
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If you want to PM me with a phone # where I can contact you, I'll give you a call one of these days & we can go to a local pond or maybe take my boat to a lake & I'll give you all the knowledge about fishing that I can. Shouldn't take but 20 maybe 25 minutes to do that & then we can try & catch some fish.
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