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Southern fish magnet comes north

"We will be fishing more with Popping Corks this season, especially in the early part of the season," writes Jim White, skipper of the charter boat White Ghost, in his February newsletter.

"If you aren’t aware of this method of fishing, you will be surprised at how effective it is on stripers and weakfish. It has long been an effective technique down south for southern weakfish, redfish, snook, snappers and more.

"Last season we were surprised at how many small weakfish we caught in the early part of the season," Jim writes. "The Lindy Popping Cork and the D.O.A. Clacker Rig fished with a plastic shrimp behind it turned out to be very effective."

Several years ago during a cinderworm emergence on Point Judith Pond, I watched Roger Lema catch one fish after another on a small, pink plastic grubtail behind a popping cork. It worked like a striper magnet.

"The nice part about using one of these rigs is that it’s like being a kid all over again," writes Jim. "The visual experience of it is simply awesome."

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