Line and Slip Bobbers

[bobberman]

this year I tried an experiment, I am a slip bobber fisherman for walleyes, i use 3 identical rods and reels, 1 rod has 10/4#, Fireline Crystal, 1 has 6#, Stren Original line and 1 has 6#, Gamma with all I use a 6# Vanish leader. The Fireline floats which is good but after a while wraps around the rod tip and the knot slides , the Gamma sinks and when the bobber goes down the line has sunk 2-3 feet below the top of the water and makes setting the hook difficult, and lastly the mono Stren works the best, stays a float longer, knot does not slip. I did this cause I was curious and hope this might help somone else. Has anyone else experimented with line and slip bobber's I like to know what you use ?

[Mattman]

When I use Fireline I use two slip bobber knots. Put them right up to each other. The first one passes right by the rod tip and the second one catches and slides down. So you just need to put that second knot back to the first. You don't loose your depth setting that way.



Matt Davis

Better to have and not need than to need and not have!

[zpeters73]

I use 14/6 fireline or 15 lb. powerpro, but I primarily fish in flooded timber with slipbobbers. I put the bobber stop, bobber and a small egg sinker on the braid above a small swivel, and then use a 10-14" leader of 8 lb. trilene XT or flurocarbon with a red or flourescent hook, or a 1/16 oz timber rock jig. If my hook gets hung up in the wood, I lose only the leader and the hook and save the bobber and weight; with a braid that strong, I'll pull the tree out of the water before I break off.

[no1son]

It boils down to just enough bobber to float your bait and weight and just enough weight to keep your bait down and your bobber vertical. It is more important to have a proper amount of weight to just overpower the bait's ability to swim up than which kind of line. Too little weight and the bait's action makes you lose contact between it and the bobber with some minnows able to stay completely out of the zone you wish to fish. As far the line goes you will need a light enough line so that the balanced bobber/bait combination will straighten it for the necessary direct communication between the bait and the bobber. That has more to do with the line weight than the type as long as it is limp enough to straighten out in the first place. It helps with mono and copolymer to stretch the line up past the bobber stop knot to help with a vertical line section between bobber and bait for better bite detection.

[Chad]

The characteristics of Flourocarbon line is that it sinks. this is good and bad depending on your presentation. It s not a good all around line.


ChadM

[whitetips(unlogged)]

It depends if its say Devils Lake or MilleLacs, Devils with all the wood Crystal and Fluor leader would be the ticket, I would use a 14-16 size barrel swivel as my connector. One thing you can do is open up the top ends of your slip floats with a big hook point. I use mostly 6 pd mono on Millelacs, I don't put a bead on it because it takes to much time for the line to run thru it, you can try the dog bone style, rubber bands if your using spinning rods, using casting rods with the upright guides I've had problems with the thread type moving.
I like 7 ft light action spinning rods where tip bends nice to allow the knot to go thru nice, don't trim them to short so you can cinch the back down.

[namvet]

i would like to use a line like fireline but because the inconsistency of the diameter the line does not go thru the bobber hole like momo i am never sure it is at the right depth, i have to go to a bigger bobber with more weight but it defeats the purpose for light bite's. fireline is ideal cause it floats but how do you guys that use it get around that problem ?

[Klaas Act - Rich Ziert]

I must don't have faith in 6# line. I use 8# exclusively for SB rig.
Favorite line is P-Line Flourclear. Im sold on Wing-It's for the bobber. I use rubber bobber stops.

A tip to never have a knot slip again is to hold the tag end of the newly tied knot between your thumb and your pointer finger. Then hold a lighters flame close to the tag end without touching it. All it takes is a split second. This will cause the line to form a small nodule on the end whereby it can't slip through the rest of the knot. . . it might break for naormal reasons, but it won't slip.