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Re: bobber or cork?
[Re: Beadlescomb]
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06/02/19 09:26 AM
06/02/19 09:26 AM
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Marshall County
FurFlyin
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Regardless of what you call them, the old porcupine quills were the best option but only the bigger ones.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
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Re: bobber or cork?
[Re: poorcountrypreacher]
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06/02/19 09:36 AM
06/02/19 09:36 AM
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metalmuncher
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I'm old enough and we were poor enough that we actually used corks as floats. So I grew up calling it a cork because that's what it was. When they came out with the red and white plastic floats, my grandfather didn't like them because he said they would scare the fish.
I still call them corks. I told my wife a while back to buy some plastic corks so we could take the grandchildren fishing. It's a term that will die out when my generation is gone.
I don't think I'm near as old as you but I remember gathering what we called corks for fishing. It was actually some kind of pulpy weed with a big knot on it. When broke off a little above and below the knot they looked a whole lot like the balsa wood floats that have a stick through them.
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Re: bobber or cork?
[Re: Beadlescomb]
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06/02/19 11:05 AM
06/02/19 11:05 AM
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Slidell, La
perchjerker
Freak of Nature
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I guess gathering the quills was rough. My daddy had a couple when I was a kid.
Thomas Jefferson. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Life is too short to only hunt and fish on weekends!
If being a dumbass was fatal some of you would be on your death bed!
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Re: bobber or cork?
[Re: Beadlescomb]
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06/02/19 11:31 AM
06/02/19 11:31 AM
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Hartselle, AL
trlrdrdave
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I still have a couple floats made out if cork. Quills are awesome with crickets. The ones like are foam now were cork. Had a string in them to pull your line through. Were a nickel a piece. They made plastic quills that looked like real quills too.
"In time of war, send me all the Alabamians you can get, but in time of peace, for Lord's sake, send them to somebody else." General Edward H. Plummer
"Blessed are those who, in the face of death, think only about the front sight." Jeff Cooper
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Re: bobber or cork?
[Re: Beadlescomb]
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06/02/19 01:25 PM
06/02/19 01:25 PM
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In front of my lathe
gundoc
14 point
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When I started fishing, it was with my paw paw. He called them all corks. Plastic, wood, cork, everything but a quill was a "cork". Kinda like how every refrigerator was a "Frigidaire" or all dark soft drinks were a "coke" to the old folks. He had no use for a quill. A decent size "minner" would snatch a quill under. Oh, and it's hose pipe, not garden hose!....LOL 
Last edited by gundoc; 06/02/19 01:28 PM.
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Re: bobber or cork?
[Re: perchjerker]
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06/02/19 08:09 PM
06/02/19 08:09 PM
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Montgomery, Alabama
bama1971
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Cork is foam.
Bobber is the red and white plastic one
To me
Never said float in my life You gotta be kidding me. Cork is a type of WOOD. It used to plug ALL Bottles. The young are really brain dead. The word cork in relation to fishing is due to the fact that once they really were bottle corks, then the floats were made of CORK. Calling a piece of Foam a cork is no different from calling a Magazine a CLIP! I didn’t mean that cork is foam. I meant the word “cork” to me, signifies a foam “cork”. Slip cork, popping cork, etc. (all foam) I drink enough wine to know about corks and where they come from
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