Thursday, November 01, 2007
Fishing With Slip Corks
A slip cork can be the most versital tool in your tackle box. This time of year around the Oklahoma City area slip cork fishing becomes very popular to fish deep areas off of lake dams and fishing around docks.
The most important part to being successfull at slip corking is the rod. My favorite length and action of rod for slip corking off of the dock is a 7’6” - 9’ rod with a light action. The pole that I started out slip corking with and really recommend for someone wanting to try Slip Corking is a B’n’M 8ft jigging pole. These sell at Acadamy for around $30, you may think it is a little light but it works almost perfect. You want the lightness of the rod to keep from pulling the hook out of the fish’s mouth and the length to be able to quickly pull in the line when you see the slightest bite on your cork.
The next part is of course the cork. Many people, including myse! lf, make their own or modify premade corks to their liking. However, just starting out I reccomend using a small foam cork that you can buy at any baitshop that allows the line to slide through until it reaches your bobber stop. You will need to take your cork and follow the instruction for rigging it on your line with the beads and bobber stop. Then go to your kitchen sink or a bucket of water and figure out how many split shots or jigs you need to make the cork set how you want it to in the water. I like to have about 1-2 inches of my cork out of the water depending on how windy it is.
Reading the cork. This is the hardest part of Slip Corking and the only way you will really learn how to read you cork is by fishing with it. Most times when we think of fishing with a cork we always wait for the cork to be pulled under. In slip corking that doesn’t happen as often as you would like. Many times you will ! only notice a slight downward twitch and the cork will pause the rise back up. That was a fish taking the jig/ bait holding it then releasing it. Other times you will see you cork rise up out of the water, that is a fish taking the jig/ bait and going up with it. These are movements that you have to learn on your cork it just takes time.
Slip corking is a very enjoyable way to fish and often times allows you to fish areas that others can’t, however; it is a technique that takes a little time to learn.
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