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Float fishing secrets for King Salmon
Feb 5, 2025
In "Float fishing secrets for King Salmon" you will see lots of bobber downs and fighting king salmon in the rivers, but perhaps more importantly, we provide extensive details that you will need to have the same experience in your favorite river. We show exactly what gear to use, how to make the proper float fishing cast. How to get your eggs on your hook so you don't have to re-bait constantly. We talk about not setting the hook immediately on every bobber down. There's also a few advanced techniques we cover among many other things. We are not trying to just entertain, but show you exactly what we do to hook many king salmon on the river even when others may not be having success. Here's the egg curing video link I referenced during the video: https://youtu.be/VOMKxA8_u-4
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today we're looking at how to float fish
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for king
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salmon show you some tips and secrets
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how to do that really effectively
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i'll show you what gear we're using um
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real quick here
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before we get started so i've got my
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eggs all baited up already
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a size one hook got my
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my 10 6 saint croix
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float rod uh using 30 pound
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and power pro hi-viz braid i just rigged
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it with a uh with a slip float here
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bobber stop knot i just heard
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i just heard a king splash in the
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background behind me i got a bead
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a 5 8 ounce float
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another bee this is the protect this
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knot right here
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and then there's a half ounce weight
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it's important that your weight your
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float are balanced
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so that your float will stand straight
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up and kind of give you indicators as to
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um
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what's going on and
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i got 20 pound fluorocarbon
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leader we're gonna give it a go here and
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see if we can catch some kings
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another really important factor
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of float fishing is making sure you're
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at the right depth
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and that you're not dragging on the
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bottom find the bottom find the fish
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so i'm gonna i'm gonna drop my eggs in
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right in front of me where i know it's
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too shallow
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for them to fish based on my leader
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length you can see my leader length here
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from the bobber stop all the way down to
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the eggs
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and drop it in and i want you to pay
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attention to what the float's doing
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when these eggs are fishing
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see see how it pulled forward like that
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and then goes under because i'm i'm on
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the bottom right there
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actually i'm a stick or something but
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that's your clue
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here on the bottom it deepens out the
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further i go
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so
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keep an eye on it here but it's still
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gonna be it's gonna be too deep
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or too shallow i should say look at that
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see how it's just that's tilted forward
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that's your clue that's the clue
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that you're on the bottom and you need
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to bring your bobber stop closer
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to your bobber to shorten up the depth
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okay we're going to start by casting
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slightly upstream of your position
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as the float starts floating
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towards you you can lift your rod up to
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lift the
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line off the water reel in a little bit
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of your slack
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as your floats passing your position now
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you can
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let line out um and and just
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spool and lift up and let
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let line out again keep the float
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going downstream uh mostly uninterrupted
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oh fish
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you know there's two schools of thought
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when it comes to
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setting the hook on salmon when you're
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float fishing
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some will say you know you just
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see something float goes down see it
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twitch
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and you rip problem is you know if you
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are dealing with bait thieves
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you're just going to land on your
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backside in the river doing that
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mighty hook set mighty heave you see
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some people do
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what professional guides
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i've always taught me to do and i've
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found
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works uh consistently it's just
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you reel down until you feel that fish
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because that reeling down just
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establishes a little bit of tension it's
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why you want
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super sharp hooks because a sticky sharp
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hook
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is going to hold that fish long enough
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for you to reel out the slack
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and do a proper hook set you'll have a
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you know using the real till you feel
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technique you'll end up with a higher
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conversion of
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bobber downs to to actual hookups
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oh yeah fish
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nice fish i'm keeping side pressure
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beside bending the rod i don't want him
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jumping out of the water it's
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easier to lose them they're jumping out
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of the water it creates a lot of slack
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aerials are fun not great for
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hanging on the fish oh god right there
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see
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came to the surface and spit the hook
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one of the most important things when
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fishing for king salmon
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with the float technique is your eggs
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on my leader here on my i got a three
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out hook
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and i got a bait loop knot it's really
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important because i can push
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line back through this way uh to help
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secure
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my eggs there's two sides to every
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bit of eggs there's a membrane side or a
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skein side
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so you can see that real good and then
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there's an egg side it's really
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important
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you take your hook and you put it
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through the egg side
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into the membrane and then you slide
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that up your hook
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with your bait loop knot out like this
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and you put the bait loop knot around
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the membrane you do it backwards
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and you'll be rebating constantly
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all right then you cinch it down see
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cinched against the membrane
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all the hooks or all the eggs are
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exposed to
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milk out and hook king salmon
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really effectively so this is how you is
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how you bait up
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um go after some kings with bob renee
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you can get eggs from that you cure
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yourself
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from fish that you caught maybe you know
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the previous year or on drift gear or
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spinners or any way you can get your own
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eggs
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that's the best i'll cure them up with
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potskies
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paraxia fire or fire cure
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lots of good videos out there on how to
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do that but it's really important you
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get
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eggs you can also buy eggs like raised
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baits
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uh sells good eggs um
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and usually i'll just doctor those up a
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little bit with the krill
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potsky's firepower product and i'll just
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put a little bit of that in there
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and those things will fish fish really
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well
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but getting eggs is really important for
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the float
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fishing technique
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another key part of float fishing
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produce a little bit more hookups
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is you can uh hold back on the float
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as it go just as it goes as it goes by
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you
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and you're gonna let them align see it
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can hold back a little bit
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what that does is it makes the
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the bait rise in the water column and
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then fall again so sort of like a
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jigging
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action sometimes that'll produce a
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strike sometimes it'll change the
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the level that the bait is working
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you know maybe the fish are up a little
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higher and it'll put it right in front
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of their face
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another thing the holdback technique is
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nice for what i'm doing here i'm just
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kind of
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putting a little more pressure on to
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make the bait rises
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you can fish through some shallower
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areas doing that if you notice
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that most of the drift is just one depth
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you can use that hold back technique
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to get over a shallower spot
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rather than trying to adjust your whole
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leader length up
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i like to buy the bowmak torpedo floats
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um get one of these out of the package
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here
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um you're gonna see
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a couple things that get included with
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your flip
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right here these are very important this
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is a bobber stop
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knot you can make these yourselves as
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well
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but i'm lazy i like to
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get them pre-tied here and
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pull out one of these guys
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and you put them on your main line
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like this
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go through now it's really important
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that you take the knot off
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above the uh
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little tubing here if you do it below
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your tubing will be stuck
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and uh it'll be pretty annoying so take
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the tube out
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that's trash and we got a bobber stop
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knot
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and i'm just gonna pull this thing kind
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of
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kind of somewhat tight right now i'll
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tight
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i'll trim it and tighten it more later
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for now i got that thing on and the next
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extremely important piece is to
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throw one of these beads on
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all right so we got like the small bead
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here
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uh is what you want and the the way this
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works
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is
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this is going to allow your float
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to um
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not slide up any further against your
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main line so it controls the depth that
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you're fishing so this bead
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hits the knot and when this knot is
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cinched down it won't slide either
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and that's your your bobber style it is
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important to know what you're fishing
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with
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um for the kind of water
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i know i'm going to be fishing in the
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forks area
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5 8. it's kind of what i like i could
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also go three quarters or an ounce
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um
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so now we got our float on
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and the next step is we want to put one
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of these bigger
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beads because i don't want the float
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to stress my knot um
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down here where it's connected to the
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weight now
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the next extremely important part of
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this
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is having the correct size
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weight i'm looking for a half
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ounce weight or a 5 8 ounce weight
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because
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i have a 5 8 ounce float it's important
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that these two things are balanced now i
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can be off by a slight amount because
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my hook and my i may put a bait weight
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on my leader
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and those things have
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have weight as well so i can be off by
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an eighth here still be okay
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slide it down all right here we go
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now we can trim these tags now
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i'm gonna trim this tag up a little bit
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not too much because
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braid will sometimes fray you can also
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burn
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burn the end here to make sure this
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doesn't fray on you
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and then we're gonna come back to our
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bobber stop knot
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i'm gonna wet it
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and then i'm gonna when the tag ends are
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long
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i'm gonna really try to give it heck
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here
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tighten you could put one end in your
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teeth as well
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whatever is your go to
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i want this thing tight so now
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i want to slide with effort there we go
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i want to take effort to slide up and
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down the main line and now
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i can trim these tag ends right about
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here
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and they won't interfere with my
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rod guides as um
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as i'm casting
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and here we go we now have a
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properly configured bobber setup
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you attach your leader
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whatever length and whatever terminal
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gear to this end of the inline weight
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and this thing will fish really well
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