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weight for drift fishing the dumaish

Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 6:18 pm
by Bassin253
gonna go up to the dumaish in allentown in the morning havnt done much drift fishing in slow moving water like that what weight would you suggest for drifting corkie and roe setup??

RE:weight for drift fishing the dumaish

Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 9:11 pm
by scott080379
I would suggest floating eggs, jiggs, throwing spinners or spoons out.

RE:weight for drift fishing the dumaish

Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 12:14 am
by natetreat
Just eggs on a leader. Fish it like a fly with sink tip line. But the fish have lock jaw on their way up, they bite more on spinners.

RE:weight for drift fishing the dumaish

Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 5:29 am
by racfish
The size of the weight depends on the stregnth of the flow.For me if I'm plunking I use max 4 oz. weight.If drifting i use enough pencil lead to touch bottom while drifting. Just remember that there are many many snags in the lower river when drifting.I too prefer spinners on the outgoing tide.

RE:weight for drift fishing the dumaish

Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 3:21 pm
by knotabassturd
Yep I'd go with nate and racfish. No/minimal weight drifting eggs if you can get away with it or if too much slow water use a float to keep it from snagging up. The spinner thing is just from listening to nate. He's been doing pretty well on the lower river with it so he's a good real reference.:)
Would be cool to run into some of you guys out there pretty soon. I'll probably be a weekend warrior on the Green. Got that work thing...
Good luck.

RE:weight for drift fishing the dumaish

Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 8:18 pm
by natetreat
And fish on the weekend. There are tons of fish coming in on the weekends, but the nets made a killing in the numbers of fish coming up.