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Originally Posted by Matt
.;.... and no Jim I don't want to have a debate about this...
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What's to debate
Let me tell you a story. A number of years ago I was fishing on a Sportboat at Clemente for White seabass. An old timer broke out long beach 68 with 50 Dacron, tied on a Rockcod ganglion and proceed to hook six live squid on it and sent it down with a 12 ounce sinker though we were only in maybe 60 feet of water. The guys "in the know" got a good laugh out of it but after a while he hooked up and landed a fifty pound white seabass on it. We thought well damn even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes, and still laughed, then he sent it back down again and hooked another smaller fish maybe thirty pounds which he landed as well. Well at that point I quit laughing and tied on a rockcod ganglion. I ended up getting a seabass that day fishing like that old fart, and would of gotten a second monster fish if I had just tied that ganion on heavier line.
I now can wrap my head around it and in retrospect I can see why it worked. Those six squid looked like a whole group of them, and with all the blue perch and balcksmith pecking on them it made quite a commotion, that drew those C's to them. I've never fished that way for C-bass again but I sure as hell won't forget it, and I would use it if I thought it would give me an edge in certain situations..
My take is there is a million ways to fish, and at any given time one may work better then some others. The more ways you know the more you can try, and the better your fishing will be down the line because nothing works all the time and little things can sometimes make a huge difference. You mathc the conditions and give the fish what they want. So on that note I'd say your way is just as valid as mine, and for all I know it may be the best thing going in certain situations. I like my way for certain reasons but if I thought yours would work better in some scenario I'd use it with out reservation.
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Originally Posted by Matt
The only down side to an egg sinker on spectra is that quite often the egg sinker will start to fray the spectra....
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I kinda agree... I don't want the sinker on the spectra either. I tie a topshot of fluorocarbon for that rig, I tie the leader to a swivel slide the sinker on the topshot then tie the topshot to the swivel. So the sinker slides on fluorocarbon topshot, not on the spectra. Sometimes when fish takes off really hard the sinker will slide up to the TP knot splice but I've never had it slide all the way past the splice onto the spectra.
I think the egg is just cleaner,and less prone to tangles but like I already implied there are lots of ways to do this..
Another way I rig it is that sometimes put a hootchie on the egg sinker to add extra flash, but don't ever do that if T's are around because they can hit the hootchie and cut off your rig. I also have friends that don't use the slider or egg but instead just rubber band a sinker to the line, so that it just comes off if you hook a good fish.
Many ways to do it, but like I already said no matter which way you go: for the distance back I like to keep it short of the actual depth in feet so you won't hang up when you stop and jig Iron.
Jim