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ULTRA LIGHT SLIP BOBBER SETUP
So this is my ultralight bobber setup for bluegill fishing is composed of Eagle Claw PowerLight five foot IM7 graphite rod (very sensitive) Pflueger ultralight reel, 4 pound monofilament, Eagle Claw octopus lazer sharp hook size number 8 and thill slip bobber . I was pretty happy with the set up until I started catching about the tenth fish in yesterdays outing. Something was seriously lacking. there was no bluegill violent head shake that I could notice on the rod it was like I was fighting spongebob. I could feel no solid hookset. When I originally put this set up together I thought I didn't need braid on this setup because you don't need the sensitivity. But you need the braid on there to experience the full fight potential of the bluegill. Solution I stripped about 70 feet of 6 pound braid off of one my ultralight setups and spooled it on top of the mono filament existing in the ultralight bobber setup. Big difference night and day! I could now feel every head shake of that bluegill. Not only do you need braid on your setups for sensitivity you need it to experience the full fighting potential of a bluegill.
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Comment by Slip Sinker on August 24, 2014 at 6:56am
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Pflueger 4520 gx
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Comment by Tony Livingston on August 24, 2014 at 6:55am
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Nice rig Ken..still not convinced of the need for braid while BG fishing however. I've tried it, and I've always gone back to mono for gills. It just works best for my applications. But, I'm still experimenting.
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Comment by John Sheehan on August 24, 2014 at 6:49am
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I never use braid nothing but mono .Guess I should start huh! What model Pflueger is that?
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