Spider rigging

[Nutbush]

How many guys use slip bobbers while riggin? What are the good and bad of using them?


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["G"]

if its windy....slip bobbers are the way to go. If wind not bad I like better without.

[tlefire]

[Cray]

Good is that they keep your hooks from jumping up and down while bow of boat is riding the waves. Just put a couple of feet of slack between tip and float.
Bad is if you use bead to stop float clicking can get on your nerves after awhile.
I keep a set of good sized clip on pear shaped floats in boat. If it gets real rough I’ll thane one of those and just clip bottom clip on line. It will stay in place. If a lot of line out reel it to tip and then you can reel line through that clip until you can land fish. Then remove and reset after putting line back in after.

[rnvinc]

I spider rig with 10 rods ... the outside rod on each side I rig with a slip bobber set fairly shallow ...

This allows several things ...:

*It allows me to focus on the eight rods in front of me with very little chance of the slip bobber rods getting hung up ...
*These 2 outside shallow running rods do catch an occasional extra fish ...
*It allows having a slip bobber rig rigged and ready to cast to an inviting target away from the boat ... (yup I can cast a slip bobber rig with a 14ft rod) ...

I have learned to use a bobber stop above AND below the slip bobber to keep the water drag from pulling the slip bobber down to the bait with forward boat movement ... Then I slide the lower bobber stop down to the bait when I need to cast the slip bobber rig ...

I may use clip on bobbers on my 8 other rods in windy conditions like the guys above noted ...

Rickie

[blueball]

Never

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[trypman1]

They work very good with light biting crappie, and smaller crappie.

[catchNgrease]

Yes
I keep an 8' double touch rigged for the same reason. To hit stumps and structure along the way. And yeah an adjusted bobber stop on top & bottom of float is necessary. When I am fishing a third person out the back I use this method on four poles.

I spider rig with 10 rods ... the outside rod on each side I rig with a slip bobber set fairly shallow ...

This allows several things ...:

*It allows me to focus on the eight rods in front of me with very little chance of the slip bobber rods getting hung up ...
*These 2 outside shallow running rods do catch an occasional extra fish ...
*It allows having a slip bobber rig rigged and ready to cast to an inviting target away from the boat ... (yup I can cast a slip bobber rig with a 14ft rod) ...

I have learned to use a bobber stop above AND below the slip bobber to keep the water drag from pulling the slip bobber down to the bait with forward boat movement ... Then I slide the lower bobber stop down to the bait when I need to cast the slip bobber rig ...

I may use clip on bobbers on my 8 other rods in windy conditions like the guys above noted ...

Rickie

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[Herewego]

As mentioned floats help in choppy waters when boat is constantly bouncing up and down.
This time of year with all the rain, recent rising water surface temperatures and high water levels that create patches of floating debri trash piles that crappie will suspend under shallow at times. Using a float to depth of fish and easing a couple long pole lines into these trash piles is a good catching technique using a float for me as l used it just yesterday as one of my techniques to catch fish after scanning them using LS.
It reminds me of saltwater fishing floating grass lines in deeper waters as fish gather around and under floating structure.

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[Takeum]

Helps with depth control for sure....I like using them all the time