floating your bait?

perculator · 07-23-2008, 12:54 PM

coming on vacation this weekend and bringing my fishing gear.......mostly bass gear but it'll have to do (i have upgraded line, hooks, steal leaders, etc).

anyway, in addition to fishing the surf, i'll probably do a little off the pier. reading on the pier's website it says that a popular method is floating your bait.........can somebody give me an example of a rig for this?

many thanks.

Backlash · 07-23-2008, 02:26 PM

You can float a cigar minnow on a steel leader with hook, no weight when king fishing, your bait will float, therefore "floating your bait"...:doh

bluffman2 · 07-23-2008, 02:31 PM

this link should help ya

http://www.combat-fishing.com/basicusefulrigs.html

perculator · 07-23-2008, 06:04 PM

thanks fellers

cigar · 07-25-2008, 02:46 PM

Pensacola piers website isnt updated very often and they dont seem to know very much about fishing when they do update it. By "floating" a bait they probably mean freelining a live bait. You can also fish a dead cigar minnow or other bait for kings by snobbling. Either way youll need about 16" of 27 lb. sevenstrand wire leader and a #2 4x strong treble hook.

07-23-2008, 12:54 PM	#1
perculator Junior Member Cigar Minnow Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 4	floating your bait? coming on vacation this weekend and bringing my fishing gear.......mostly bass gear but it'll have to do (i have upgraded line, hooks, steal leaders, etc). anyway, in addition to fishing the surf, i'll probably do a little off the pier. reading on the pier's website it says that a popular method is floating your bait.........can somebody give me an example of a rig for this? many thanks.

07-23-2008, 02:31 PM	#3
bluffman2 Senior Member White Marlin Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 2,940	RE: floating your bait? this link should help ya http://www.combat-fishing.com/basicusefulrigs.html

07-23-2008, 06:04 PM	#4
perculator Junior Member Cigar Minnow Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 4	RE: floating your bait? thanks fellers

07-25-2008, 02:46 PM	#5
cigar Junior Member Cigar Minnow Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 7	RE: floating your bait? Pensacola piers website isnt updated very often and they dont seem to know very much about fishing when they do update it. By "floating" a bait they probably mean freelining a live bait. You can also fish a dead cigar minnow or other bait for kings by snobbling. Either way youll need about 16" of 27 lb. sevenstrand wire leader and a #2 4x strong treble hook.

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07-23-2008, 02:26 PM	#2
Backlash Senior Member Mingo Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Milton Posts: 197	RE: floating your bait? You can float a cigar minnow on a steel leader with hook, no weight when king fishing, your bait will float, therefore "floating your bait"...:doh

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