Bobber Matters

[Fishinglarry]

2 poles setup exactly the same. 1 with thill stick float other with round bobber. Stick float out fished the round one 20 to 1. Changed to stick float and fishing equaled out. Guessing the waves were bouncing the jig to hard and killing the bite. Lesson learned. Sorry no pics. That’s my story and sticking to it!

[DockShootinJack]

Could be that the fish felt the larger bobber.

[Ketchn]

a pencil float will ALWAYS smoke a "bobber" by a large mile , bobbers are for those that fish once a year , pencil floats are for ketchn .....just saying

[BuckeyeCrappie]

I abandoned round bobbers as well but still keep some as backups and they are very small.

[Grainraiser]

I use the smallest pencil float I can get away with unless I am splat fishing for catfish.

[NCkenner]

This is a good lesson. I've often wondered why I suck when I try bobber fishing with the round ones. Now I know......
Thanks for the education!!

Curious- were you using them as slip floats or as fixed depth?

Chris

[Fishinglarry]

I was using them as fixed float anything deeper than 5 ft or so I just fish without a float, slip bobbers are to complicated for me

[slabbandit]

2 poles setup exactly the same. 1 with thill stick float other with round bobber. Stick float out fished the round one 20 to 1. Changed to stick float and fishing equaled out. Guessing the waves were bouncing the jig to hard and killing the bite. Lesson learned. Sorry no pics. That’s my story and sticking to it!

That’s interesting for sure.


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[CrappiePappy]

Yeah, it's definitely harder for a fish to pull a plastic ball of air underwater than a slim stick of balsa wood. Not so sure the "bouncing" had that much to do with it, as both floats would bounce around in the waves fairly equally.

[JUNGLEJIMJIGS]

Plastic round floats are trash and haven't used them in many years. I do use a 3/4" round weighted float when fishing small jigs 1/32 or less a lot with great success. Anything heavier will sink the float.