Ned Rig Under A Bobber

[livemusic]

I sure thought I had read a page somewhere on using the Ned rig under a float bobber but I have searched via Google more than once and cannot find anything. Did I dream this or do some use it this way? I remember thinking wow, now, that is error-free. Still searching for a way for my gf rookie to cast something that will catch fish in cover-filled lake but doesn't require skill.

[Master Bait'r]

Bobber is a swear word.

Of course it'll work, but teach her to reel in a topwater with trebles like a roumba, etc. or t rig her up a craw or worm and let her feel the bite. Bobbed worm dunkin' just isn't something you perpetuate on people you care about over age 6 IMO haha

[F14A-B]

http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/topic/12401-senko-faq-%C2%A0look-here-first/

In that link, somewhere, I read about guys rigging senkos under floats & slaying fish. There is a massive amount of great information here..

[flyfisher]

I saw a show where Al Linder I believe was fishing a wacky rigged senko under a slip bobber and killing the smallies.  I figure if you are gonna do that with her you might as well throw on a minnow or some other live bait.

[gardnerjigman]

I've seen lots of people use a bobber on a slow retrieve boot tail or something similar to keep it at a certain depth.

[primetime]

Using a Slip Float with any soft bait is similar to a dropshot if you think about how it looks to a fish....In the cold the Float and Fly is probably the best way to get bites, and it is nothing but a suspended bait, suspended at the same depth the fish are holding...

 

I find if it is windy, and lots of submerged or emerging grass, a slip float cast parallel to a weed edge like pads, with the rig set up with a bobber stop to keep it hovering a few inches above the weeds works well at times..

 

For Snook and Redfish on the flats and in mangroves one of the most popular methods of fishing for them is using a popping cork with a gulp shrimp or any softbait under the cork and if you pop it every few feet it drifts, or reel it, it gets the attention of fish and if a Snook will take it, than a bass will surely take it...

 

I have only had success using soft baits with a loud popping cork for bass when in brackish stained water and a longer leader, and I like the bait to be on bottom so a craw works well, but Berkley gulp is essentially like using live bait at times.

 

If fishing clear water and you want a bait to sit 2' off the bottom in 10 feet of water, instead of using the drop shot, try rigging a nose hooked finesse worm like the Dream shot or Smaller 3-4" Senko, or sassy shad and if you let it soak in the right spots with a Waggler float (The Thin one's, Bass will drop a soft bait if they feel any resistance for most part, but some guys use the Rainbow floats that flip when you get bit with a circle hooks so you simply reel when it goes down..

 

I rarely use this technique anymore because I like to fish fast and throw jigs and heavy weights and plastics, but on Lake Toho if I am in the back of the boat and drifting over endless grass flats, I will toss out a wacky rigged 3" senko 2 feet under a lindy TD waggler since the waves are usually large on that lake, and you will get a quick limit, big baits do not seem to work well for me so quality has been the biggest issue I have encountered...If anyone does something for larger fish I would love to know how.....

[Team9nine]

I sure thought I had read a page somewhere on using the Ned rig under a float bobber but I have searched via Google more than once and cannot find anything. Did I dream this or do some use it this way? I remember thinking wow, now, that is error-free. Still searching for a way for my gf rookie to cast something that will catch fish in cover-filled lake but doesn't require skill.

 

You didn't dream it. Steve Reideler of Lewisville, Texas, who provides lots of reports to Ned's Finesse News Network, was regularly using a bobber-and-scented LeechZ rig and other Z-Man baits to catch several bass these past couple winter/springs. He frequently uses a rattling bobber to make some extra noise as a possible attractor. Below is a brief mention from one such report:

 

 

“Our spinning rods sported the following lures: a 2 1/4-inch Z-Man’s California Craw FattyZ tail section fastened to a chartreuse 1/16-ounce Gopher jig, which was suspended about 24 inches below a rattling bobber, a Z-Man’s watermelon-red Finesse ShadZ rigged on a red 1/32-ounce Gopher jig, a 2 1/2-inch Z-Man’s pumpkin-chartreuse ZinkerZ rigged on a chartreuse 1/16-ounce Gopher jig, and a 2 1/2-inch customized Z-Man’s green pumpkin-orange FattyZ tube rigged on a blue 1/16-ounce Gopher jig.

 

-T9

[eyedabassman]

You can fish a float & fly so why not a Ned under a bobber?  May have to up size the bobber a bit!

[Jeff H]

I saw a show where Al Linder I believe was fishing a wacky rigged senko under a slip bobber and killing the smallies. 

It was probably Doug Stange.