long shiner casting help

saltybluegrass

Well, if you’ve read/seen my posts, you see a natural progression into researching what my home pond has. i have no idea of depth. There’s the chain-like fern plants next to the bank or just sand. I want to cast out a ways and lost a few shiners with stationary bobber attached. 
Can i just run a bobber stop up 10-15 ft and let the shiner run or do i need any more terminal tackle and if so what? 
I’m using spinning reel w 10 braid 15 lb floro
thanks 

DrK

How about not having a bobber? Just cast it to the middle and slowly drag it back in so it does not go into the weeds. Reel in and repeat.

capt louie

You have to "lob" a shiner. The bobber stop thing is ok but if you hook it near the tail you can sometimes steer it with a small bobber about 2' up the line by pulling a little. It will generally swim away from the tension.
Nothing wrong with it being close to the shore line weeds. Especially early and late.

no slack

Caught some really big fish on rodman by casting a freeline shiner, no weight or float and setting the pole down.  I thought he would get Tangled in the hydrilla but those fish would find him.  The line would start getting tight and I would just feed some slack before setting the hook.  

saltybluegrass

any one use circle hooks or do bass not work well without setting a hook? 

capt louie

I'm sure they work fine. I've never used them on bass..

DropTheHammer

Use your imagination. There are A lot of different variations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DvLzzOlluo

mikenav

Circle hooks on bass work great. Especially with shiners. Takes away the whole need for the Bassmaster hookset and allows you to still catch the fish and get your hook out with no problem. 

mplspug

I prefer circle hooks for bass.  

Kill_It_N_Grill_It

free line the shiner no bobber and small circle hook like 1/0