Who knows
Mar 8, 2021 07:43:27 #
What are these. What are they made from. How do you rig them. Can you cast them very well without tangling. Unscramble this and you gonna need a bigger boat
HKASR.
HKASR.
Mar 8, 2021 07:58:12 #
Well they're not for catching SHARK. They look like a porcupine quill bobber.
Mar 8, 2021 08:24:34 #
Wv mike wrote:
What are these. What are they made from. How do you rig them. Can you cast them very well without tangling. Unscramble this and you gonna need a bigger boat
HKASR.
HKASR.
To pick your teeth?
Mar 8, 2021 08:56:55 #
Mar 8, 2021 09:09:17 #
Flytier wrote:
Well they're not for catching SHARK. They look like a porcupine quill bobber.
Agree with FT, you make those yourself Mike?
Mar 8, 2021 09:52:09 #
Sure is easy to tell when the fish just sits there thinking about what it has in its mouth.
Mar 8, 2021 11:04:27 #
Those sure look like porkypine quills. 40 years in the California woods and mountains and I've never seen one here. If we do see one, California dfw asks that we report it.
Mar 8, 2021 20:09:13 #
bknecht wrote:
Agree with FT, you make those yourself Mike?
No they are store bought
Mar 9, 2021 08:38:11 #
Wv mike wrote:
No they are store bought
Noodle jugs for a trot line setup?
Mar 9, 2021 11:00:19 #
Mar 9, 2021 13:21:21 #
Wv mike wrote:
What are these. What are they made from. How do you rig them. Can you cast them very well without tangling. Unscramble this and you gonna need a bigger boat
HKASR.
HKASR.
Mar 9, 2021 13:26:33 #
Looks like a stand up bobber. You run your line through the eyelet then make a loop in the line leaving enough line below it for the depth you want to fish.. Tuck the loop under the rubber band. When a fish takes the bait and pulls the loop of line from under the rubber band, the bobber stands up. They are difficult to cast.
Mar 9, 2021 21:23:50 #
Spiritof27, my dog found plenty of porcupine quills, the hard way. I grew up in Burney, CA
Mar 9, 2021 23:32:08 #
I don't know much about that part of the state, but yeah I imagine you'd have porcupines in those pine forests. Down here we have beavers and skunks. Do we ever have skunks.
Mar 10, 2021 01:28:25 #
These are floats made from African Porcupine quills. They can be bought on eBay. When you get them the points are extremely sharp. So caution is a must until dulled. I have made a few of them. To make the eye, I used a cut down paperclip and then used a fly-tiers bobbin and rotary vise to attach. Coat thread with Sally Hanson's hard as nails. For the rubber holder a piece of surgical tubing cut to 1/8" works well. It can be rigged as a stationary float by running your line through the rubber piece and then the eyelet at one end, or as a slip float with a bobber stop, then a small bead, the only the bottom eyelet. As far as casting, I found it worked very well.
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