Slip bobbers are generally used in conjunction with live bait, either on a plain hook or on a jig. You want a little weight on the business end of the line so the slip bobber stands erect when your ...

What is a Slip Bobber Rig? A slip bobber rig requires a few key components to tie everything together, but the star of the show - and what gives this rig its name - is a float (bobber) that has a hole ...

Like the sun sliding below the horizon, the bobber slowly but steadily slipped out of sight. I picked up the long, limber spinning rod, took a couple turns of the reel handle, and with a sweeping ...

Fishermen often over-analyze a situation, make techniques and approaches too complex. We end up outsmarting ourselves. We can cite a million reasons, from the weather to the calendar, for why fish ...

My sonar unit registered a large school of crappies suspended over one of Lake Arthur’s submerged creek channels. The bulk of the fish appeared to be holding in 8 or 9 feet of water over the 13-foot ...

As I am gearing up for the upcoming gamefish season, I always find plenty of little projects to keep me busy. Going through and tending my arsenal of rods and reels is one of the annual tasks that ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you're getting ready to cast your fishing line, are you adding a bobber, float or strike indicator? Bobbers have come a long ...

Legendary north woods guide Greg Bohn is known as Mr. Slip Bobber for a good reason -- he's spent the past 30 years in northern Wisconsin perfecting the tactic that is one of the most used and least ...

Something about bobber fishing has hooked me since childhood. It is there, very real and so enticing, but I can't exactly tell you why it is so appealing. Perhaps it is the cadence of the float as it ...

DEVILS LAKE, N.D. - Dustin Larson had a game plan to put walleyes in the boat on this early June morning: Pitch jigs and soft plastic tails along the edge of a shallow flooded shoreline and cover ...