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By Bret Baker
Pine Knot News Outdoors 

Get the lead out

 

March 15, 2019



Last week I detailed the “nuts and bolts” of power-corking. Power-corking shines when fish are concentrated on a specific structure. When fish are randomly spread out across the expanse, it’s time to break out the lead-core trolling rods.

The lead-core technique starts with the line itself. Lead-core is a Dacron or braid coated line with lead at its “core” or center. Instead of relying on snap-weights, sinkers, or the natural dive curve of a crankbait, the lead-core itself controls lure depth. Every thirty feet of lead-core is color coded. Even without a line-counter reel, you can...



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