Fish bait you are 100% correct.... i too recently started fishing the same way due to pain bouncing big lead, and fishing oversize sturg.... I found that building rods with long fore corks helps a bunch also. For back bouncing i made a couple of really lite one peace sticks with 6" fore corks, it all most eliminated my fish elbow @ bonnie last spring.
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