New Use For My TUC Noodle

So in a wheel house I could just use a rattle reel with zero drag or tension as a dead stick?

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So in a wheel house I could just use a rattle reel with zero drag or tension as a dead stick?

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Absolutely. Many anglers do this exact thing.

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So in a wheel house I could just use a rattle reel with zero drag or tension as a dead stick?

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Yes you can……I actually prefer to use a bobber just big enough to hold jig/hook & sink up and leave the bail open on my reel. Years ago when we would fish all night we would set an empty beer can on a shelf and run the line up to the beer can tab so that when the fish took the bait it would pull the beer can off the shelf and bang on the floor to wake us up.

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Now Will, if you were running a Vexilar FLX28 you could set your color pallet to number 2, which eliminates the color green. Green is the weakest signal which is what plankton shows up as. I tried this feature the other night for the first time, it great!

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Ha! I’ve spent 4 solid days experimenting with that FL28 side by side with the MarCum digital units in the last 2 weeks and it pales in comparison to the 6, 7 and 9 for both sensitivity, adjust-ability and target separation. Sorry bud, the 6 color palette on the digital units will do anything the LX28 will ever do and then some.

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I don’t know gang. I’ve got a 22 and I’d wager a 28 that runs clearer than my Lx7 and all my buddies lx7s over thick plankton. It’s a fact as far as I’m concerned. Suspended night crappie fishing IS the only reason I have a vexilar.

You’re not running a tri-beam are you James?

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Years ago when we would fish all night we would set an empty beer can on a shelf and run the line up to the beer can tab so that when the fish took the bait it would pull the beer can off the shelf and bang on the floor to wake us up.

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And here I thought Joel Nelson invented that one…

Of course he builds beer can pyramids for the fish to knock over…

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You’re not running a tri-beam are you James?

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Not one that works, apparently.

I never found a tri-beam that ran straight, 4 for 4 erratic and noisy. I’m spending a long weekend over plankton. I’ll try and run a comparison of the sensitivity issues involved with my units.

The lx5 runs much cleaner in this situation than the lx7.

Regarding fishing noodles. I always use the tip-down style rod holders, especially for my crappie fishing. I do jig by hand as warranted, but frequently just find myself tapping or even nudging the butt of my rod with my foot to impart some action. Noodles in rod rocker holders are like having ninjas on your side.

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The lx5 runs much cleaner in this situation than the lx7.

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I don’t have a 7 but I’ve fished the heck out of my 9’s and never seen an issue eliminating any kind of small/tiny clutter in the exact scenario you’ve described. The two units do run different code… but I’m not aware of any difference that would make the 7 different than the 9 in this regard.

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Thorne Bros makes the deadstick, which is the only rod I’m aware of that is heavy enough for deadsticking walleyes.

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A three foot stick of rebar with a spring bobber and a reel. And now you are aware of TWO rods that are heavy enough for dead sticking walleyes.

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And here I thought Joel Nelson invented that one…

Of course he builds beer can pyramids for the fish to knock over…

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Joel does not strike me as a beer drinker…

Geesh… Take a couple hour break from IDO for dinner and my noodle rod post gets hijacked

Hopefully I can help clear things up (Pun intended)… The plankton was as bad as I’ve seen and it didn’t matter what you were running – between myself and the others fishing with me we had an LX7, FL-22, and even a guy running a color lowrance non flasher. It didn’t matter what you were using you weren’t gong to see squat… They all ended up cluttered.

Taken out of context it might sound like I was unhappy with my flasher but under the circumstances I was actually very impressed with the LX-7. I’d say that having the 6 color palette gave me an extra 30 minutes to an hour of fishing before the clutter was too much as I had no problem making out fish and my bait when it was showing up as a weaker green signal (ie the one that could be eliminated by a 28) but eventually it got so thick that it was a losing battle no matter what unit you were running.

Back to the deadstick discussion…

Yes the QT is sensitive enough to detect the slightest of panfish bites, I was doing well holding it almost motionless and waiting for the tip to load up. However the fast action of the tip only gives a couple inches before it gets to the backbone so you only have a second before a light biter like a crappie could feel some tension. If you were going to use it this way I would probably recommend using a small bobber and open the bail.

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Back to the deadstick discussion…

Yes the QT is sensitive enough to detect the slightest of panfish bites, I was doing well holding it almost motionless and waiting for the tip to load up. However the fast action of the tip only gives a couple inches before it gets to the backbone so you only have a second before a light biter like a crappie could feel some tension. If you were going to use it this way I would probably recommend using a small bobber and open the bail.

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X2!!!

Thanks for the up date Will! I enjoyed reading your parts of the post.