Sister-site post question.

I just did a post on FTL that is on slip-bobber fishing in still water and am wondering if any of you could try the technique on the river. I wonder if the method would work using moving water rather than wind. Let me know, ok? Thanks… Hoggie

It sure works good on floating cutbiate past snags … no matter how old I get it’s always fun watching the cork go down…..

slip bobber fishing sure does work well in moving water – float it past any hole and something is sure to bite – i use this tactic a lot for channel cats – but only on smaller rivers

I guess I’ll admit, I am pretty green when it comes to the fiver using bobbers. I thank you guys for the feed-back and I’ll sure give em a try. I love to experiment! I use slip bobbers lots on still water. They are espically effective when I am not able to double ancohr the boat and want to be real still. I hate when the boat goes back and forth with the waves slapping on the sides. To much noise! Sometimes holding a bait still, moving real slow, and doing a finese thing has been the ticket getting walleyes for me too.

Hoggie

Fishing Thill style bobbers, like wagglers is a bread and butter technique for steelhead over here on the east side of the state, I`m sure it would work for early season shallow walleyes and ther river species. Rigging options go far beyond the basic slip-bobber techniques to more advanced bottom dragging set ups. They work great in steelhead creeks, I`m sure they`d work on the mighty Mississippi too. Beaver

I started using slip bobbers a couple yrs ago and continue to use more and more. I have found that the slip floats manufactured by and marketed by Dan Gapen are the best I have found. By way of design, the line passes thru much easier and when fishing deeper water…..18’+ you dont need as much weight to get bait down. I have two sizes and use larger for deeper water when more weight is beneficial. I have used the thill ones but seem to need more weight to get terminal tackle down in an expediant matter.

so…walleyefshr, where do you get these Gapen bobbers at? And are they expensive? What do they have that makes them different, larger hole in the in end? I have used some that will not take 10 lb line in the in end. The in hole was too tiny, so tint that it caused a drag on the line. And like you say they had to have alot more weight.

“Hoggie”

I picked mine up at the kansas city sports show in january, and yes…they were five bucks apiece i think. You dont pass line thru the center like a thill, but the end opens up, put line in a slot and a collar slides up to close the opening. No need to cut line to put on a slip float….plus opening is large enuff for larger lines I belive. I have never seen in a store

https://ssl10.securedata.net/gapen/floats.html is a link to see the float and attaching system…….gapen.com

Are there any retail sites where these can be purchased or can we go through you to buy them? I am interested to try them for both summer and winter.

thanks for info cat, I sure do like em…