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 ...

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 ...

Andrew Wilfong of Switzerland is a dedicated St. Johns River angler. Most of the time, he fishes off a dock, and he and his wife, Sue, catch everything from catfish to bass, plenty of bream, sometimes ...

Slab crappies are meat eaters—sure enough minnow munchers. They take artificials well at times, especially jigs—but big crappie will turn their noses at even the best of the best crappie lures.

The most useful and versatile inshore terminal-tackle rig in Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia is a sliding cork affair, appropriately called the "float rig." It's also the inshore rig that ...

One of the best ways to catch fish, for the next few months especially but even year-round, is with the old standard shad dart and minnow below a float. I caught my largest pond pickerel, weighing ...

Sick and tired of trolling sticks? Perhaps bottom bouncing crawler harnesses for walleyes is becoming monotonous. Albeit, the technique may indeed be using a “bobber,” so to speak. It is far from the ...

In any tackle shop and you will see rows of floats all promising to do something slightly different. To a beginner it can look needlessly confusing. Even to experienced anglers, it is easy to fall ...