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Float fishing for salmon
Feb 5, 2025
How to tie up a float fishing for salmon rig. How to fish a float / slip bobber setup. Detecting that your hook is dragging on the bottom. Catching salmon with a float fishing setup.
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he's not ready to come in nice chrome
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King today I want to show folks how to
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properly rig up a bobber rod or a float
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presentation usually with eggs but
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there's a lot of a lot of different
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possibilities with beads or jigs or
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those kind of things actually getting
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ready to go to Forks right now loading
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the on the truck up with rods and one
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more rod to fix up here and I like to
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buy the bow Mac torpedo floats get one
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of these out of the package here I'm
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gonna see a couple things that get
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included with your flip right here these
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are very important this is a bobber stop
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now you can make these yourselves as
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well but I'm lazy I like to get them
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pretty tied here and pull out one of
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these guys and you put them on your
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mainline like this
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go through now it's really important
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that you take the knot off above the
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little tubing here you do it below your
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tubing will be stuck and I'll be pretty
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annoying so take the tube out that's
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trash
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and we got a bobber stop knot and I'm
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just gonna pull this thing kind of kind
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of somewhat tight right now I'll tight
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I'll trim it and tighten it more later
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for now we got that thing on and next
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extremely important piece is to throw
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the beads on good you all right so we've
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got like the small bead here it's what
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you want and the the way this works is
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this is gonna allow you were float to
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not slide up any further against your
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mainline so it controls the depth that
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you're fishing so this bead it's the
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knot and when it's not a cinch down it
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won't slide either and that's your your
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bobber stop it is important to know what
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you're fishing with for the kind of
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water I know I'm going to be fishing in
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the forks area 5/8 it's kind of what I
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like I could also go 3/4 or an ounce
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so now we got our float on you know the
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next step is we want to put one of these
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bigger beads because I don't want the
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float to stress my knot down here where
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it's connected to the weight
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now next extremely important part of
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this is having the correct size weight
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I'm looking for a half ounce weight or a
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5/8 ounce weight because I have five
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eight ounce float it's important that
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these two things are balanced now I can
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be off by a slight amount because my
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hook and I may put a bait weight on my
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leader and those things have have weight
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as well so I can be off by 1/8 here and
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still be okay slide it down alright here
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we go now we can trim these tags now
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trim this tag up a little bit not too
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much cuz braid will sometimes fray you
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can also burn burn the end here to make
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sure this doesn't fray on you and then
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we're gonna come back to our bobber stop
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not I'm gonna wet it
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and then I'm gonna when the tag ends are
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long I'm gonna really try to give it
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heck here tighten you could put one end
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in your teeth as well whatever is your
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go-to I want this thing tight now I want
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to slide with effort there we go
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wants to take effort to slide up and
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down the main line and now I can trim
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these tag ends all right about here and
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they won't interfere with my rod guides
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as I'm casting and here we go
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we now have a properly configured bobber
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setup you attach your leader whatever
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length and terminal gear to this end of
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the inline weight and this thing will
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fish really well now that you know how
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to rig up for a float fishing I want you
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to know how to fish it pay close
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attention to the float as it's drifting
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downstream
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you'll see that it is it is angling
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slightly forward it is doing that
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because it is dragging on bottom I'm
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reeling up and when I bring it back up
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here I'm going to move the bobber stop
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down closer to the flow which means
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it'll fish shallower and I want that
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float standing straight up and down to
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indicate to me that I'm above the bottom
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I'm not dragging on the bottom and
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making the perfect presentation where
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the fish might be sitting and they want
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to bite on the eggs that I'm drifting
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underneath the float this is why it's
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important to balance your weight and
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your float so that when you are fishing
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it correctly after you found bottom
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you're fishing just above the bottom
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that's about it that's similar or less
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smaller but still nice nice shoulders
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big buck yeah hey I don't know Alex I go
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18 suddenly I got not quite as long but
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nice fish
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