Retired Pro Angler / Writer Johnnie Crain sent a couple pictures of Bass and Crappie he and his grandson caught using the BulletBobber. Johnnie says they are the trick for many species. Keeping your bait at the proper depth along with controlling the location and speed really helps.

BulletBobber and Humminbird By Johnnie Crain

I have been experimenting with two featured products reviewed in Journal Outside columns with great success. The BulletBobber is the only guidable fishing bobber designed to be steered into places under docks, between stands of weeds and anywhere else a conventional bobber simply can't be fished. The BulletBobber switches its direction of travel with just the flick of your wrist, allowing for 180 degrees of coverage from shore and a full 360 degrees from a boat.



The Humminbird Piranha Portable Fish Finder is a sonar unit that has a castable bobber type transducer that can be cast from shore and will show the bottom contour, read the depth and temperature and show any fish present. By combining these two products, I’ve found I can use the BulletBobber to steer the Humminbird transducer under docks, and run along standing timber. The Bobber/transducer can be weaved in and out between the trees and can cast the two units into creek mouths and cover both sides and points of the creek mouths and cover both sides and points of the creek mouth with one cast.

Here is picture of my son, Jon, with his first big Steelhead pulled from the Chagrin River in Ohio. He said there was only a small area of open water below at Daniel's Park Dam, but he only needed to cast one time and then work the edge of the fast currents for 5 minutes to hook up. It was a good thing he didn't need to keep casting because his eyelets would have froze up.



Here is my first BulletBobber Steelhead from the Grand River in Ohio.