colored floats

griz01 · Post by **griz01** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 8:42 pm

Does anyone know where I could find the multi colored float balls only that are on some of the fish tags that you attach to the fish?

BuckSnort · Post by **BuckSnort** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 12:35 am

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templ ... hasJS=true

griz01 · Post by **griz01** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 5:38 pm

Appreciate the suggestion, but those aren't what I'm looking for. The ones I'm looking for a made of styrofoam. I have the colored coded clips from Berkeley but I want to put float balls on them so it's easier to get a hold of them when they are in the livewell. That water can be cold.

Marty · Post by **Marty** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 6:16 pm

Wal-Mart

tunaman · Post by **tunaman** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 8:36 pm

Use old crankbaits... DD22's work great for that.

Roger

Bill K · Post by **Bill K** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 5:55 pm

Or sort thru some balsa floats/bobbers, obtain 5-7 colors that are differant or paint some and use them for your floats. They are cheap and work very well as culling floats on your clips. Bill K

tunaman · Post by **tunaman** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 6:29 pm

For me, the floats are just a convenience for getting a hold of the rope... most of the time the ropes are colored, so it matters not to me whether the float hs colored or not.

Lots of ways you can get creative and save some bucks!

Roger

AaronAgner · Post by **AaronAgner** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:20 am

I took the Cul-M-Rite clips with the white foam floats and colored them with different colored sharpie permanent markers. Been using them for over a year now and they still look great. No color fade.

kopper_bass · Post by **kopper_bass** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:45 am

Griz,
If you are using the Berkley culling scale, i would suggest that you forget the colors and just go by the numbers 1 thru 7. You dont really need to care about a color, and you wont find buoys that match all those colors because they use some weird color definitions.

You can use the foam balls and cords for cull-m-rite:
http://www.basstackledepot.com/cul-m-ritefloats.aspx
and then just use a black marker to write the numbers on it. Write the number on 2 sides of the foam buoy.

If you know you need to cull #4 fish, just grab the buoy with #4 on it; simple. This is what i do.

Also, remember that you should just use the buoy to get control of the fish, not lift it out with the cable. Grab the fish by the lip instead.

Kopper

MikeD · Post by **MikeD** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:51 pm

make sure you have enough line between the ball and the float so that the fish doesn't have to fight the float to stay on the bottom of your livewell

Remember that you only want the ball/tag/rope to help you find the fishes mouth while the fish is still underwater. you don't want to use the ball/tag/rope to lift the fish out of the water, it rips the **** out of the fishes mouth skin, causes infections and further injures the fish.

I wince and wonder wtf people are thinking when you see photos of people holding fish up by the culling ball and fish hanging on the end of the line. think people, think