Bottom bouncing the NSR from shore?

[Geezle]

Well, after a couple PM's regarding the pickerel rig thread, Hal got the idea in my head that I should try bottom bouncing from shore. I always thought bottom bouncing was more of a boat/trolling technique, since that's how I remember doing it with my dad waaaay back in the day in a little 14' aluminum on Last Mountain Lake in SK :)

So is it just a matter of firing it out and dragging it through the area I suspect the fish may be holding in? :confused:

[Winch101]

There is a rig called a Wolf River Rig , first used in salmon rivers ,

we used it in Man. rivers , can be made easily , works very well ..

You need to be able to buy large egg, sinkers and from there pretty

simple.. It can be casted a long way and worked in the current ..

Google Wolf River rig..

[Chris K]

If you try to bottom bounce like walleye fisherman traditionally do in a boat in a lake but in the river from shore, you will get very sick of loosing tackle and retying. When in a boat you try to keep the angle of your line at between just shy of vertical and a 45. That way your spinner runs a foot off bottom or so, and you just tick along or drag on bottom with the bouncer. Cast this rig and it will tangle like crazy. IMO you are better to jig through the area, or cast a crank.

Chris K