The popping cork gives the angler the heft needed to cast these light baits a sufficient distance to reach the schools of gamefish on the surface without spooking them and driving them away.

An angler with a sharp upward motion of the rod causes the cork to make a popping noise, which to the trout resemble the sound of trout attacking a school of shrimp.

When “cork popping” with live shrimp, I was alway a little hesitant to pop the cork too hard and lose my expensive live shrimp.

A new technique to catch large red drum of Pamlico Sound and a citrus shrimp recipe.

Prior to fishing in Salt water where corks and bobbers are combined with both live and artificial bait more often than in fresh water, the only slip cork rig I’d seen was on a buddy’s cane pole.

Speckled Trout are good on shrimp under a popping cork fishing along the shoreline or around structures. Flounder have been good on minnows around the piers. Black drum are fair above the grass on ...