My sonar unit registered a large school of crappies suspended over one of Lake Arthur’s submerged creek channels. The bulk of the fish appeared to be holding in 8 or 9 feet of water over the 13-foot ...

Legendary north woods guide Greg Bohn is known as Mr. Slip Bobber for a good reason -- he's spent the past 30 years in northern Wisconsin perfecting the tactic that is one of the most used and least ...

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 ...

As I am gearing up for the upcoming gamefish season, I always find plenty of little projects to keep me busy. Going through and tending my arsenal of rods and reels is one of the annual tasks that ...

Like the sun sliding below the horizon, the bobber slowly but steadily slipped out of sight. I picked up the long, limber spinning rod, took a couple turns of the reel handle, and with a sweeping ...

What Is a Slip Bobber and Why Use One? A slip bobber is a low-impact way to present a bait at a certain depth, whether it's just off the bottom, just above weed tops or at the same level as suspended ...

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Fishermen often over-analyze a situation, make techniques and approaches too complex. We end up outsmarting ourselves. We can cite a million reasons, from the weather to the calendar, for why fish ...

Here is a step by step photo gallery and video on how to tie a Bobber Stop knot. This knot is especially useful when fishing with a slip bobber when the depth the bait is presented is critical. The ...

A lot of anglers are getting the "fishing bug" and preparing to assault area waters. One such walleye angler asked me a question earlier this week. I thought about it for a while and decided that ...

Something about bobber fishing has hooked me since childhood. It is there, very real and so enticing, but I can’t exactly tell you why it is so appealing. Perhaps it is the cadence of the float as it ...