Strawberry 10/21

[obifishkenobi]

Could you expound on the slip bobber rigging that your using.  I typically just throw the white jig tipped with chub meet and then slowly jig / retrieve it back to me.  We catch a lot but I am all for learning new techiniques to increase the catch.
Sounds like you guys really got into them.  Nice work.    We were up there this past friday and between 8 of us in the boat we landed 116 which for us is a epic trip.

Thanks.

I don't think Kent will mind if I chime in here with a short PDF file I put together on slip bobbers.  This rig has been used for a lot of years by a lot of anglers all over the country for everything from fishing suspended walleyes to drifting gobs of roe for steelhead and salmon.

You can use almost any kind of bobber...as long as there is a hole for the line to slip through.  And if you are only fishing a few feet below the surface there is no need for the swivel setup.  You can simply let the bobber slide freely between your jig and the bobber stop.  But to prevent the bobber from bouncing off the fish...or getting wedged in its mouth...you can put a bead and a second bobber stop a foot or so above the jig.

Thanks Pat for your response, I have caught a lot of steelhead, salmon, catfish, and bass under a slip bobber set up, it allows you to quickly adjust your depth. On Thursday I started about 4' under the bobber and progressed deeper as the light came up and the fog lifted to 12' under the bobber by sliding the knot up the line. I prefer the Knot style stop and use a small split shot above my jig instead of a swivel, also when I need to cast long distances, like when steelhead or salmon fishing from the bank drift fishing, I will add a corky between the hard bead and the bobber which indicates that my gear is not tangled and set up properly from a distance, at the berry I didn't need it as I was fishing close enough that I could see my knot come to rest on the the top of my bobber.