While i was at cherry grove last year we got our house on the main creek back behind cherry grove beach right by the bridge at 53rd. i was down at the public landing and pier one night and this man had this set up i had never seen before. It was the huge cork with about 2 feet of line under it and he had a mullet hooked live and he would throw it out and let the mullet swim and he would just watch the cork and when it got too far he would reel it in and throw it again. before long his spinning reel started screaming and he fought it for ab 10 mins and it came off. i never got a chance to ask him what he was fishing for or what he thought he had. i am not familiar with inshore fishing. i have most of my exp offshore fishing. so i was just wondering what kind of rig he had and what he was fishing for. i am going back in july and would like to catch whatever he had on that line bc it ab spooled his reel. any ideas?
it was a huge cork and huge mullet. it was not a popping cork
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Plenty of good sized stuff in the backwater at CG. I’ve seen cobia, sharks, big blues, and black drum in the creeks. I hooked a tarpon back there about 5 years ago from the riprap beside Julian’s Point rental house.
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Toobusy do you know what kind of rig he was using?
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It’s something I see in S Georgia and Florida a lot. It’s a sliding cork rig. I’ve got one at the house I pulled out of some marsh grass at St Simons Island a couple of months back. Cork about 12" long, 1 1/2" diameter, with a slight taper. 8/0 circle hook with 100 lb (at least) mono and a 300lb terminal tackle swivel.
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they are called float rigs and are old school but deadly. i still know a few guides who use them exclusively. the floats come in all sizes and allows you to drift a bait at any depth. basically it is used from an anchored boat and let the current take the bait.i have seen bridge fisherman master this as well for some huge trout. usually the mainline is 17-20 lb mono and the leader slighty lighter so if it hangs you don’t lose the whole rig. on the mainline from the rod is a sliding stop knot, a small bead and then the float, which the line slides thru. next is another bead and typically a trout or torpedo weight. the weight varies according to the size of float, current depth, etc. the weight has a loop on one end and a loop and swivel on the other. mainline to loop and leader to swivel. a live shrimp in then horn hooked on a small kahle hook. originally dacron was used, then mono, and now a lot of folks are using braid on the mainline. this rig, when mastered is a killer. you can drift in 2 ft right up to 22 ft. by adjusting the stop knot, the knot will pass thru your guides. conventional reels are the true old school way, but spinning works as well.
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That how mt Granddad used to fish. Man he could catch em,
thanks grateful
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