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Title: Setting tip ups in current
Post by: browning13 on Feb 03, 2010, 06:41 PM

I'm going to try fishing tip ups on a section of a river later this week and was wondering if anyone has any experience with this. The current isn't terrible by any means but enough to pull the bait. I was thinking about running a heavier weight and rigging the sucker up from the lip with a stinger in the dorsal so its pointed into the current. Any suggestions?

Title: Re: Setting tip ups in current
Post by: coreyl302 on Feb 03, 2010, 07:08 PM

I would lip hook the bait no doubt

Title: Re: Setting tip ups in current
Post by: Wiener on Feb 03, 2010, 11:26 PM

I would rig it as you normally do.

If the bait is lively, it will swim into the current.

Put a couple of small split shot near the minnow to keep it down.
Otherwise, the current may move it higher in the water column.


Hope this helps,

Wiener