On 9/9/2019 at 5:59 PM, Catt said:

Catt, curious about the sinker stop. What is its purpose? 

1 hour ago, Bass Junke said:

Catt, curious about the sinker stop. What is its purpose? 

I'm curious about it as well.  My guess is knot protection and a deterrent to gathering salad.

48 minutes ago, Hook2Jaw said:

My guess is knot protection and a deterrent to gathering salad.

I do the same thing for the latter.  Works pretty well in several types of weeds, especially eel grass, which is a pain up here.

@J Francho, I'm gonna give it a shot.  We've got tons of greenery that gunks up on knots and hook eyes down here in the southeast. 

I like about a foot up the line from the bait.  It's not fool proof, but works well enough that I use it often.

When the weeds are really thick, the only way to go is a hollow body frog something similar. You can try a swim jig too bit you may pick up too many weeds for it to be effective.

3 hours ago, Bass Junke said:

Catt, curious about the sinker stop. What is its purpose? 

He can switch to a punching set up if need be. I used to do that when I didn't have a dedicated punch rod I would switch from a frog to punching rig on the same rod without having to remove the bobber stop. Pretty sure that's not @Catt's plan though.

1 hour ago, J Francho said:

I do the same thing for the latter.  Works pretty well in several types of weeds, especially eel grass, which is a pain up here.

Hmm, didn't think about that, I guess a bead would do the same thing.

17 minutes ago, boostr said:

He can switch to a punching set up if need be.

A punch rig?  That's  swim jig head, not a Texas rig.  Anyone that knows Catt, knows he doesn't peg.

5 minutes ago, J Francho said:

A punch rig?  That's  swim jig head, not a Texas rig.  Anyone that knows Catt, knows he doesn't peg.

LOL, That's why I mentioned "Pretty sure that's not @Catt's plan though."

9 hours ago, Hook2Jaw said:

I'm curious about it as well.  My guess is knot protection and a deterrent to gathering salad.

My guess is it was left over from a previous rig . He just left it on there .

11 hours ago, Bass Junke said:

Catt, curious about the sinker stop. What is its purpose? 

 

9 hours ago, Hook2Jaw said:

I'm curious about it as well.  My guess is knot protection and a deterrent to gathering salad.

 

It was already on the line & I see no reason to remove it!

 

5 hours ago, Catt said:

 

 

It was already on the line & I see no reason to remove it!

 

Tada . I got it right .

13 hours ago, Catt said:

It was already on the line & I see no reason to remove it!

I do this too.  That's how I discovered the eel grass solution, lol.

28 minutes ago, J Francho said:

I do this too.  That's how I discovered the eel grass solution, lol.

 

At my age putting a bobber stop on 50# braid is a little time consuming!

 

The way I see it way would I take time to one on only to take it off when I change techniques?

 

I see leaving it on a plus ?

I just hate wasting them.

I made these up for fishing weedy waters up here and love the rig. After seeing the bobber stop idea, I'm gonna have to add it to my line before tying this on. Thanks for posting that @Catt!

i was bringing search baits through weeds last night but this is all it yielded........ big bite baits cane thumper and a sprinker frog. I had a big one on that sprinker frog Monday just after dark but it jumped off 

7 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

i was bringing search baits through weeds last night but this is all it yielded........ big bite baits cane thumper and a sprinker frog. I had a big one on that sprinker frog Monday just after dark but it jumped off 

Looks like you caught my PB ...

5 minutes ago, Jigfishn10 said:

Looks like you caught my PB ...

Haha! Where you been? Believe it or not a smaller fish was grabbing that same bait, a little smallmouth shaking it like a terrier 

This bait was posted here a couple of years ago. Works great on the outside edges and any lanes you may have.

 

 

 

Stanley Ribbit Frog for me also. Great choice for covering water fast with pads