09-13-2025, 09:20 PM
(09-13-2025, 06:21 PM)BURLEY Wrote: Can you educate me on flig fishing? How far is flig behind slip sinker and how far behind the boat is the sinker say in 10 fow going 0.5 mph? Is it just under the boat or as far back as 70 feet? I have frozen chub.
Shawn likes to do a standard length between his flig and the weight but we very the length from 15" to 24". Yesterday 20" was best. We don't use a slip sinker, we use inline weights that are 3/8 to 1/2 oz. We usually just use a spinning reel and make a cast as far as we can, off to the side and it will go straight back after a few minutes. That rod is 90 degrees from the side of the boat, the second rod is inline with the boat, so there is less chance of tangling. Yesterday I used a line counter reel and I was letting out 80 ft of line but 50 to 60 ft would have been fine. We usually cut up our chub when it is still frozen, so it does not mush out. If you wait until it is too thawed, you can be a mess. Once we cut it up we put it in a container and get it out when needed.