Saturday, July 4, 2009
Sports - Outdoors
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OutdoorsTry a different rig to cash in on variety of fish

Published 09/23/07

As waters cool and many fish move into deeper waters, bottom bait fishing can be quite productive.

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The accompanying illustration shows my favorite, which can be highly recommended at this time of year when fishing for sea trout, flounder, stripers, bluefish, large hardheads, and catfish.

It's a fish-finder rig with a different twist - it's made more simple. Some would call it a sinker slide. I use it often when chumming and live-lining, but find it equally effective when bottom fishing for just about anything. It's a simple way to fool a fish - missing will be the resistance a fish feels when it pick up a bait, then begins to swim...

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sinker slide - September 27, 2007

Unfortunately, there was no illustration in Burton's story about the sinker slide. Can you provide it?

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