Drift socks

What brands are the best?

I like the Linde blue and red ones.

The cabelas drift socks are really nice!!! Get the biggest one you can afford...

I assume I will need 2 right?

Probably. What kind of boat?

Which ones? The Cabela's Advanced Anglers or Advanced Pro Series? Thx.

I have a 20' bass boat but my dad has a 20' pontoon. I realize that 60"-70" socks might be over kill for a Bass boat but I don't want to have to buy 2 socks for each boat.

I got a big yellow one off eBay it was cheap and it is built out of heavy duty stuff. Don't know the name but you can't miss them bright yellow with red straps.

2 is always good... Just go at least one size bigger cause you can always choke em up tighter to the boat...

The pro series is what I have... but I've heard the cheaper ones are okay too...

I also bought this and love it but you don't have to have it..

Do you have 1 or 2 socks? What kind of boat do you have?

3 socks 3 different sizes

I run 2 of the cabelas pro series on my 17 foot deep v aluminum g3 and they work great. The cabelas pro series store in a smaller area than the big yellow ones we did have. I also have ropes with a float from academy tied to them. I think that that it helps keep them straight and high in the water column.

The cheap Acadamy drift socks work great. I have one from Cabelas and two from Academy. I also bought a two pack of floats from Academy to add to the socks to keep them at the water's surface.

I primarily drift fish and run a multitude of socks on my 19' skeeter. I match my socks with my speed. I can fish in up to 17mph winds and stay at .5mph. I have a red 60" Linde, (2) 54" blue linde, 36" and 30" yellow amazon. I use them all in different combinations to keep me below .5mph....get the tethers with the float, sock will sink without the float if it comes unattached and be gone gone. I get all mine on amazon for cheap

I used to use two 5 gal buckets. I like the socks better when it comes time to hoist them into the boat.

Those harness that Prime showed are great. With the float on, if you hang a big cat and he's fighting towards the sock, you just unhook and drift away. Then after you caught it, go back and re-hook. Had a buddy get hung up in the sock one time, ever sense we use those harness. I made my own, easy to make.

i run 2- 60" drift control original series, i have a 22' skeeter bay boat

Andrew, are those made by Lindy?

yes sir, the blue ones

Academy has their socks on clearance....bought one for 5 bucks...spare and emergency use

This probably would have saved me a couple of lost socks.

I just bought one toat Bass Pro Shops to replace one of my Cabela's 42" ones I lost. I bought a 48". They had a 54" that wasn't much more. It I thought it would be best not to be too different from my other one. I didn't want to get unbalanced when I use two out the side.

+1 on the Academy and Lindy socks. Got the 54" Lindy on Amazon Prime for $29!

What would I need for a Seaark 1872 CC?

Anyone found any larger socks than the 78" Cabelas socks?

We have 8 of the 78" socks from Cabelas (pro series) and like them. But, on some days i'd like a bigger one.

This might be a dumb question, but is a 60" socks the size of the opening or is it the length of the sock?

I'd imagine throwing 8 out at once would put the breaks on pretty hard. Must not be kidding when they say Twonk can get windy.

Socks are not on clearance at Temple or Killeen Academy's.

I didn't see them on the website either.

Salsa they used to make a 84 inch which I have 2 of. I have been searching for a matching one for a while. On Sunday my blazer bay was .5 to .6 . I imagine your sea cat would need more.

Been debating on what to get and glad I waited. Heads-up that Cabela's has the Pro Series on sale. Savings almost paid for both harnesses.

Ok got another question. It's obvious that most people use big socks. Is it possible to go too big?

I always hear you need to be drifting at .5 mph or less. So I would think the bigger the sock, the slower you will drift, the better. Am I right?

I prefer to drift between .5 and 1 mph and sometimes even faster. The fish don't have any issues catching up to the bait and I like to cover water. I prefer multiple drift socks so that I can use just enough to slow me down to the speed I want.

Gotta figure out what the fish want!! I drift right at .7 to .8 when i drift. If im running .5 or slower i turn my trolling motor on and lock it to the straight-line course to get me up to speed. Not saying it doesn't work but 1 mph and over seem too fast