View Full Version : Lighted slip bobbers
Rick-Wy.
03-18-2001, 06:29 PM
Looking for the the preferred manufacturer and size; having no experience with this fishing technique.
Thill has a lighted slip bobber. The only other one I have seen is the Firefly by Blue Fox; is it a spring float or slip float?
Rick-Wy.
03-18-2001, 06:38 PM
Also found another manufacturer, ESB. Claim to a superior product is a wear ring at the top.
Larry
03-18-2001, 07:31 PM
I am pretty sure that they are illegal in Wyoming.
Mattman
03-19-2001, 03:49 AM
I use the Firefly. The Blue Fox one that changes color is marginal. The color changing craps out on me after a while. The plain red LED ones are good and I've had the same one for about 10 years now.
james_walleye
03-19-2001, 06:52 AM
I started using the thill last season and i liked it a lot better than the blue fox float. I had problems with the blue fox bobber tangling in the line when rigging it as a slip bobber. I like how the thill float rigs just like any other slip cork.
Rick,
I know for a fact they are illegal in Wyoming. It has something to do with using lights for catching fish. I think that it's a pretty far flung interpatation to say a lighted slip bobber is using artificial light to help you catch fish. For that matter, wouldn't using a flashlight after dark to tie on a lure be the same thing? Anyway, I don't know any Wyoming Game Warden who has ever written a ticket for a lighted slip bobber. A good way around this goofy law is to put some Reflective Tape(get this stuff at the automotive section at WalMart) on your bobber. Then almost any light in your boat,such as the running lights you are required to have on when on the lake after dark will light up that bobber enough to see it. You can use a flashlight or lantern or anything else too. Come to think about it, wouldn't running lights shineing on the water be a violation of Wyoming's law if your fishing? I guess all I can say is from one criminal to another....good luck, and I'll see you in the State Pen.
Badfish
03-19-2001, 12:56 PM
Thill used to market (I don't know if they still do) slip floats with glow in the dark paint on the tip. So I started doing it at home. I just took a couple of my favorites and dipped the top inch or so into a bottle of glow jig paint. Had the whole thing done in about 30 seconds. Every couple of casts, or when I check my bait, I recharge the float. As long as I remember the flashlight, I don't have to worry about keeping track of all of those little batteries.
Rick-Wy.
03-19-2001, 12:56 PM
Mr. T and Larry:
After discussion with a warden you are both right that lighted slip bobbers are presently illegal.
The warden did say that this was presently being reviewed (also the caylume (spelling/) sticks) with public meetings to possible change the requirements for this and other things. The warden agreed that present technology changes in the fishing hardware should be reviewed and allowed, but as it stands is illegal.
Each warden would have his own opinion....but this one would probably not ticket for this offense. So proceed at your own risk (probably a small one).
Rick,
With the upcoming fish regulation meetings in late April or early May we should deffinately seek to change that law. Remember when you couldn't fish after 10 pm? We all got together and changed that one. With the upcoming meetings I guess it's time for us to show up or shut up.
Islander
03-19-2001, 09:50 PM
I personally like the cylume light sticks either attached with
a rubber band or the rubber holders, No need to switch your
present bobber setup when the sun goes down.
Islander
03-19-2001, 09:52 PM
I personally like the cylume light sticks either attached with
a rubber band or the rubber holders, No need to switch your
present bobber setup when the sun goes down.
Pitts
03-20-2001, 06:59 AM
LAST EDITED ON Mar-20-01 AT 09:00AM (CST)[p]I second the cylume stick because the white top of the blue fox float is hard to see in the day and if you are fishing in over 20' of water in big waves you cannot add a lot of weight or they sink or just barely float.
When the dark comes just add a cylume stick and no worries. I like to use the removable ones (bobbers) so if I want to pull cranks or rigs I can quickly change a rod over to the specific presentation without retying in the dark for those people that don't have extra rods for every application. You can add the slip not on any rod and at a later date when you want to bobber fish just add the bobber and weight and hook or jig the knot is not noticable when not bobber fishing. (not,knot,not,knot) LOL.
Pitts
As I recall, it is illegal to use lights in Minn for fishing at night. Is the lighted slip float a problem there also. Need to know as coming up in early summer and intended to use them.
ufda
Pitts
03-20-2001, 12:35 PM
NO
Pitts
To the Wyoming boys out there. I need to correct my earlier statement about having never met a Wyoming warden who has written a ticket for a lighted slip bobber. I did talk to one yesterday who said he has written a ticket for it. Also said the felt like a jerk doing it. This is one law that has got to go. How can the Wyoming Game and Fish say (with a straight face) that a lighted slip bobber is an artificial light source whose purpose is to attract fish. While at the same time saying that it is legal to hang a lantern or two or ten all over your boat or the shore and say it is not a light source "to attract fish"?