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Originally Posted by Local Rookie
I am looking at your beach butt bomber and I am confused about the corkies. What are those and what is the purpose of them? Is it to float the bait? Do they slide? Where can I get them? Also, the glow tubing - where can I get those?
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Sure thing Rookie I thought there might be a little confusion about them as they are not really super well known outside of AK and the PacNW.
Corkies are really just platic coated foam balls. They are most often used when drift fishing for salmon or steelhead. They do slide freely although not far due to the current pushing them against the rig and the limited lenghth of the leader.
For the purpose of this rig they not only act as a little extra visual attractent but also give it a bit more lift. Not enough to float it per se but enough to keep it from dragging too much and snagging or dulling the hooks. The bait chunks are usually far to large to allow the corkies to float them entirely.
While we can find them in grocery stores up here (no kidding) you may have a bit more of a search. I know they do turn up on ebay rather regularly and that the larger catalogs used to carry them (Cabelas, Basspro etc) but beyond that you may have to find a Pacific Northwest based business that sells online or will ship.
They come in tons of sizes and the one we use for Butts is only the second or third largest. The largest is about the size of a big shooter marble and creates much too large a profile for casting long distances. Better to go smaller and line up a couple.
We have also used succesfully, small low profile foam bobbers, large solid strike inticators intended for flyfishing (these are mostly too small but can sometimes find big enough) as well as big pill floats used for bluefish rigs on the East Coast.
Hope that sheds some light...
Matt