Jig vs Popping cork
 

How many of you have fished them side by side and seen one out fish the other? I personally hate the cork due to its boring and a pain to cast. I know the cork is affective but how many SC are loyal to it.

i only fish a cork year round...that being said i also seldom fish water deeper than 12 feet...i use i guess you call it a cigar float...weighted, with 1 -1/8 ounce jighead and pearl white 3in. gulp shrimp 18 in. under....other than that its a double rig with 1/4 on top and 1/8 on bottom ... with 2inch white sac a lait jigs.....only baits in my box...the smaller weight on bottom keeps it from passing up the top when casting , lees tangles...i also cut the wire on top put it in a vice and wrap end around a nail i inch from float bead....no more bent wire problems...

I hate fishing a cork but ill fish with whatever works.... so at times it seems to me the cork will out fish a jig mainly bc it keeps the bait in the strike zone for a longer period of time. Although I try to fish topwater or mirrodines 90% of the time tho...

Yak I'm with you, I will throw a spook all day and catch a couple over a deck full off a jig. Just isn't as fun to me.

I enjoy fishing with a jig much more but alas I suck at it. More confidence with a cork set up.

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I use a cork when the fish are less active in the winter and more often cast and retrieve or jig in the summer when they are more aggressive and chasing baits.

I find most people who don't like corks are still using the old fashioned "popping" corks like this: http://www.academy.com/shop/pdp/h-h-...ge&N=310008596

but if you use the clip on egg corks like these: http://www.academy.com/shop/pdp/coma...23?N=310008596
then you wont have any more tangled lines, even with double rigs if they get wrapped up, a pop or two and it comes undone and straightens out.

I use the unweighted for double rigs and the weighted one for single rigs.

the clicker corks with the wires and beads and such are just too much for your line to get tangled in so I don't use em. when you try the clip on style egg corks, you will find all your frustrations with using corks will go away.

like anything corks are just another form of presentation and they can save a trip when fish are biting very slow and you need to keep the bait in the strike zone fish are reacting to or if they aren't biting and having that bait sitting in their face not moving away gets a reaction bite (or a frustration bite) from them so you don't go home empty handed.

I just don't like corks bc to me its not exciting... unless someone in the boats catchin on them and im not... then ill switch. lol

Whatever's clever over here. Sometimes I feel a cork helps with reaction strike and sometimes I won't touch it if I think jig or top water or suspending twitch would be more effective


"Go ahead, share your opinion! I won't cry"

Fishing reefs out of VB and the pass, I find the small popping cork (un-weighted) with a 1/4 to 1/8 oz fished with the grub or cocohoe tails to be very effective in finding where the fish are located on the reefs. This set up is my go to method, if that doesn't work then tsunami swim shad and mirodines go next.

I keep a cork handy. If I'm on fish and they quit sometimes they've just moved up the water column. I fished next to a guide one time and I was using the cork, he was using jig. I had been catching fish on the jig all morning, then the tide changed and it seems all the fish came to the surface and I could buy a strike on a jig, but they were hitting it below the cork 18" below the surface. So I think sometimes it's a matter of working the entire water column.

All depends on what type of fisherman you are. I never used a cork ( have on few small occasion over last 10 years)

If you can work a plastic you will never need a cork


I have never been out fished in my boat by a popping cork "Never"

not learning to fish with a cork is like going into battle with your gun only half full of bullets.

cork fishing is just suspended bait fishing and like any form of fishing technic there are differences in how you use it to present different things to the fish.

there are always times corks will out fish non cork fishing and visa versa so that's why everyone comes to the launch with different results in the ice chest. learn all the styles and technics of each style of fishing and you will be better prepared to find what works best on any given day in any conditions.

to say only use it or never use it is just silly, find what works to catch fish that day and do THAT, whatever that is. if you choose to never use or practice one style of fishing then of course you wont have much success when you do try it, because you haven't honed your skills with it.

Not learning to select and fish a lure so you can leave the cork is the real travesty.

so is believing the fish MUST adhere to your style of presentation no matter what

what is a real travesty is refusing to try one very productive, successful, and popular style of presentation out of some form of feeling its beneath you..

[QUO TE=keakar;683273]so is believing the fish MUST adhere to your style of presentation no matter what

what is a real travesty is refusing to try one very productive, successful, and popular style of presentation out of some form of feeling its beneath you..[/QUOTE]



Sound a little defensive and unacceptable of opinions that differ from yours. Sounds like everyone here should adhere to your concrete beliefs.

I got bored with a cork when I was 8, and my 8 year old is bored with corks.

Sorry my differing opinion upsets you.

And nobody implied that it was beneath them, you are interpreting that to be the case either because of a chip on your shoulder or you just like confrontation.

I have corks in my boat, and have used them to locate like mentioned above. The rare occasion I do use them to locate, I switch to the more exciting method TO ME.

The OP asked for opinions from everyone. He didn't state that he wanted opinions that supported his or your thought process either way.

A popping cork is not my first choice but I do use them occasionally, I like the smaller old fashioned popping corks best because they make a better popping sound and they don't kink and weaken your line like the lemon clip on corks. My sister uses the small red clip on corks with live mullet and she catches just fine. The old fashioned corks get worn and start to slip on the line and you have to put a double half hitch on the stick. Every method has its pluses and minuses, whatever works for you. Popping corks are a tool, sometimes they seem to me to be the best tool for the job. You can use a hammer for everything but sometimes a screwdriver works better. Just my 2c.

i say i only use a cork and "W" says he never uses one and i don't see anything "SILLY" about it...i happen to like watching a cork run along the bank with a red on or a trout smacking the hell out of it and 90% of where i fish the cork is necessary.....i pulled a limit of reds yesterday out of 10 inches of water with a 1/8 ounce jighead scraped to make lighter so it wouldn't get hung on oysters and without the weighted cork no one could have thrown that far and the cork helps lift the jig instead of dragging it.....i also efficiently fish lake P shoreline with a cork in stumps you couldn't drag a jig....when i can come in with limits of fish regularly and until that changes i'll ONLY fish with my SILLY cork...

I knew this would be a good thread

If my customer are willing to learn I rather teach then great techniques and skills to fish a plastic, than just throw a cork and pop!

I need to book a trip with you

Fishing plastic with out a cork allows you to fish every level of water deep,shallow and mid

Jig weight makes a great difference in catching and fishing.

Days you have to make trout eat!

what about the time Hurt em Hatten put it on you with a cork?

That was cork vs cork and once I started throwing my jig again I smoked his shoes off

He did beat me throwing cork vs cork but I won total # of fish

The elitists are out today. They seem to be biting on baits suspended from corks, but I think closer consideration reveals that the corks are being trolled and the trolls are being fed.

Cork is great for fishing the birds. I have been burned by guys throwing corks and me throwing a jig under the birds. Keeps bait right where they want it at all times. And for women/children so they can't get hung on the bottom. All I throw is spooks and corky's though.

I think they both have their pros and cons when used correctly. I have never had much luck with a cork, I've always done better tight line and I like that more. I'm sure it's because my cork technique isn't quite rite. I'd like to learn how to use cork better as I think it would make me a more well rounded fisherman.

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I'm living that spooklife

it was you who chose to comment on my opinion and to suggest by that comment someone using a cork is "Not learning to select and fish a lure"

so yea, you tell any fisherman he cant select and fish a lure and he will get defensive over it. that was the point of your post.

feeding time is over

I'm not prejudice. And I'm not afraid to throw a cork. Especially if I'm fishing with someone else. Depending on who I'm fishing with either I or one of my partners will at least try a cork. I figure it can't hurt. And it's better for people who are less skilled with a rod and reel.


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corks suck! i dont care if people are out catching me x 10 in the boat i wont throw that poo! corks are for wimens n churn

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Gotta keep it one hunnit even in the winter

I only use a poppin cork with mirrodines or corkys.

Water depth. Each has it's place.
No cork in 40 foot water. No gigging in 5 foot of water.

What's the deal.

Jigging..........and what about poppers?

I agree water depth is the key. However the last two days of fishing my son-n-law used jig and I used a cork. He did better than me on the first day and I seemed to do better on the second day. Both of us fishing the same piece of water.

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If you need a partner to go in.... I'd love to learn better plastic techniques.

^^ This

Last time I used a crankbait with a cork. Seemed I would get bit every time id start reeling in but I just couldn't connect

Sounds good, my schedule is so booked, It might be July before I could go.

Lol. You must not be sportin braid to miss fish on that combo.

Only when you gotta put a lunker in someone's face !


Spiral Out

Could y'all please post pics of what you speak.

I'm confused.

Jig I think of is a weighted or fully a weight with 1 or 2 hooks for salt water.

Popper is a wood plug with divit in nose and hooks tri hooks

Popping cork is a cork with divit and rattles inside cork with leader and hook with plastic on it.

I'm missing one thing I guess y'all are talking about fresh water lakes?

Or I don't know what the tackle y'all speek of looks like.

Skitter life bruh

When it gets really hot I move to skitter. Haven't done much on either lately. .

Only time I allow a cork on my boat is when I take kids and out of towners to smash the 2-4ft. blacktips at the jetties in the summertime with live mullet. Its guaranteed catching and watching inexperienced anglers reactions when the little sharks start hitting the deck is priceless. Not to mention the fish fry afterwards. But I agree with POX....corks is fur wimmin an chirrins

My 3 and their yankee cousins livin that "cork life" They didn't mind a bit....lol

Im living the what ever they bite life! Ima throw the whole tackle box till they get hungry!

You gaff them puppies in the head to keep them from putting their teff through your net?

gib holla at you bout sunday?

Yea I thought I was gonna be able to do it but ill be out of town. Was told by the girlfriend we would be home Saturday night but that got changed to Sunday.