Should i use a bobber for bass

RealtreeByGod Posted June 25, Posted June 25, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Beetlebz Posted June 25, Super User. Look up the technique float and fly. Todd2 Posted June 25, Edit, I didn't see the previous post Troy85 Posted June 25, MickD Posted June 25, I expect the last time I used a bobber was fishing for pike with live minnows.

Mike L Posted June 25, For bass, bobbers are helpful when fishing with live bait. But for artificial I see no advantage to useing them, and for certain lures it makes no sense. I have used bobbers plenty of times when fishing with live shiners in Florida. Brad in Texas Posted June 25, Posted June 26, Deleted account Posted June 26, Koz Posted June 26, I usually put my shiners under my bobbers? Most are made of foam, plastic or balsa wood and weighted types offer the best casting distance.

As the name implies, slip bobbers slide up and down your line, starting from your hook, swivel or weight, all the way to your bobber stop. The bobber stop is nothing more than a knotted piece of Dacron that tightens on your main line. You then slide it up or down to the desired depth and it casts through the rod guides without catching.

Rigging up a slip bobber is a little more technical than when using fixed bobbers. Among the most unique and useful floats is a bubble float. These floats make casting finesse lures or even flies possible with regular spinning gear. Bubble floats are two piece bobbers with an internal rubber tube that holds the two ends together.

Your line slides through the tube like a regular slip float but you then pull apart the two halves and twist them in opposite directions to grip the line and lock it in place. You can also partially fill the float with water by pulling it apart and submerging it.

The added water allows for long casts even with unweighted lures. These bobbers can be slowly retrieved or fished like a regular bobber. They are typically clear so it may be hard to see a bite if you are still fishing with them.

However, with water inside, a slight nibble will force the water to the lower end and make the bobber stand straight up. Set the hook if this happens. Ever wonder why bobbers have so many different shapes? There are some wild bobber designs out there but each shape serves a purpose. To shed some light on what each bobber style is used for, we summarized the features of the most popular choices in the following chart. It all comes down to visibility. Most bobbers are brightly colored so you can see them at all times and in all conditions.

With that said, some bright colors are actually not as visible as you might think. For example, white or yellow bobbers stand out in stained water or along tree lined areas where the water looks dark. Yet, they are essentially invisible on days with high clouds or bright sunshine where glare from the water hides their location. A fluorescent orange or black color bobber actually contrasts better on bright days.

In addition to having a variety of bobber styles on hand, you also need a range of colors. That way you can use the most visible bobber on any given day. Our favorite bobbers have dual colors like black and orange, black and yellow or pink and yellow. Just like any other fishing tackle, tailor your bobber choice to match the conditions. No doubt there are countless ways to rig up with a bobber. For the sake of simplifying things, we narrowed it down to the 3 best bobber rigs that will pretty much cover any fishing situation you might encounter.

A basic fixed bobber rig is going to serve any angler well for panfish and stocked trout throughout the fishing season. This rig is easy to setup and works best for delivering bait at foot depths. Casting is tricky once you have more than 3 feet of line below the bobber so practice lob casting to avoid tangles.

How to fish it — This setup is best used for fishing near weed lines and shallow structure where panfish tend to congregate. Those should work well until you learn more about the advantages of each style. Sinkers are weights made of lead or other metals. The less the sinker weighs, the more natural and sensitive your rig will be. Fixed sinkers are pinched, twisted or tied onto the line. Often used varieties include split shot and rubber-core sinkers, which have grooves to hold the line. Sliding sinkers reduce the resistance a fish feels when it bites.

The weight rests on bottom while line slides through it. Examples include egg and bullet sinkers. Egg sinkers have a hole through the middle so the line moves freely. They are commonly used on live-bait rigs. Bullet sinkers have a cone shape ideal for gliding through weeds. They are most often used when fishing plastic worms. But bass anglers using artificial baits quickly applied the bobber stopper to the bass fishing world and the vast majority of anglers now use these tiny rubber treasures to secure their Texas rig weights.

Instead, I like to take a bobber stopper and slide it up my main line, followed by a VMC Tungsten Weight and then another bobber stopper. The really cool thing is you can actually slide the setup all the way down to the eye of the hook and go from a Carolina rig to a light weight Texas rig and then back again without ever retying if you want. The limitations of this rig come when you move up to heavier weights or down to lighter lines.

The heavier weights will cause the bobber stoppers to slide down the line on the cast. There are actually some bobber stoppers that are different sizes for different sized lines. Their ratings are intended to hold a bobber in place, not a weight. So the smaller sizes will hold onto bigger diameter line even better against the pressure of the weight in your back cast.