This right here is why it wasn’t working for you….the jig should not be pushing any “stop” to the bobber. It sounds like you set up the rig wrong. Here is a picture of the CORRECT way to rig a slip float. I have a key below…
1. Main line
2. Bobber stop
3. Bead
4. Slip float
5. Jig
Ok, let me run this down for you….as soon as you cast out and the rig hits the water, the jig will start to sink pulling the main line down also. While it’s sinking your bobber will just sit their on top of the water as your main line is going through it, hence why it’s called a slip float. As the jig is sinking it will eventually pull enough of your main line to where it meets your bobber stop, whichever depth that might be that you have chosen. Once it does get to that point the float will hit the bead, then the bead will hit the bobber stop and that’s it, it’ll stop. You are now sitting at the depth you chose.
As you can see their is zero resistance and the jig isn’t pulling any thing except the main line as it sinks....the bobber stop is preset before the cast and the bead, and slip float all slide up to the bobber stop. The key word being slide up….because that’s all it’s doing, sliding up nice and smoothly to the bobber stop that you have set. I’ve thrown 1/16 jigs on slips more times then I can count, it works just fine. I hope this helps!