Re: [VFB] The snagging combo? or .....

[Jimmy D. Moore]

Used to snag Shad on the Tennessee River below Wilson Dam.  We used braided "hand" line with a series of 6  gold treble hooks tied about a foot apart with a ball & swivel sinker at the tip of the line.  Where did we snag them ? At the local sewer outlet, where they'd gather by the hundreds.  This was in the early 50's before environmentalism was a word.  No we didn't eat them.  They were considered "trash" fish.  We snagged them just for the fun of it and dumped them on the bank.  A shad is half rotten when it comes out of the water !  I'm not proud of the above, but that's the way it was in Sheffield, Alabama back in 1951.

Jimmy
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I've used droppers but really don't like the idea.  Snagging is done by lifting a weighted hook over a fish at a point the hook might snag the prey.  Fishing droppers is usually in water where you can't really see the fish and are trying to show him a few ideas about dinner and hope he'll choose one.  Often, the dropper is the winner but the topper keeps it off the bottom like a strike indicator.

Now the appropriate use of this tandem is when we can't tell if the fish is attracted to the nymph floating to the surface, emerging dun or dun.  Spinner falls are easy to figure.

Murf

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Jimmy D. Moore                        I FISH BECAUSE I MUST !
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