How To Rig FOUR Different Types Of Slip Bobber Stops

0:00 on today's video we're going to go over setting up a slip bobber [Music] rig hey there outdoor YouTubers it's Dave keter from keter's practical outdoors and I know all you guys have fished with these styles of Bobbers before right this conventional clipon style of Bobbers you know for most of us uh this is maybe some of the first fishing we ever did as a kid with these clipon style Bobbers worms that sort of thing and you know through history that style of bobber

0:46 literally has probably caught millions of fish right um but there is some limitations to the clipon styles of Bobbers and that's kind of where the slip bobber comes into play um slip Bobbers they're a little bit more trick tricky to set up but uh they have one huge advantage over the clipon style Bobbers and that's that the slip Bobbers can be fished at a very wide range of depths and I'll kind of show you what I mean here we've got this uh old school style bobber here set up and we've got it set up on this old school style pole here thought that'd be appropriate for this demonstration but if you think about it you know this hook you know we

1:31 probably put a worm on this hook this Hook is about 2 fet below this bobber and you know if you're going to catch a lot of fish 2 feet below the surface if there's a lot of fish 2 feet below the surface that's perfectly fine right but what if we wanted to fish 10 ft below the surface what if we wanted to fish 20 ft below the surface you know if you can imagine what we'd have to do is take this bobber and adjust it so there'd be 20 ft of line hanging off the bottom of of it and you know if you think about it it would be very difficult to pick this Rod up with 20 fet of line hanging below the bobber and cast it out in fact it would be very impractical you know if not impossible so that's where a slip

2:17 bobber comes into play so how this bobber stop stuff works and I set one up on this really heavy black dakron line hoping maybe you can see it a little bit better but um anyways here's the stop right there and the idea behind it is the stop just needs to be a little bit thicker diameter than the actual line that it's on so then when the stop comes in contact with this sliding bead the bead can't pass through and then when the bobber comes in contact with that bead the bobber can't pass through so it it actually stops this whole rig from sliding any further if you can imagine you cast this out boom your jig hits the water the Sinker hits the water it starts sinking sinking until the bead

3:04 and the stop come in contact with it you know keep in mind that this stop is adjustable so you could take this stop and you could run it 10 15 20 ft down the line and then the distance from here to your bait or jig at the bottom can be 10 15 20 ft and you know that's something that's really not achievable with a conventional clip-on bobber uh it would just be uh way too cumbersome to try and cast a a clip on bobber with 20 ft hanging down below it so the real trick Behind These bobber stops is they have to be bulky enough that when the bead comes in contact with them the bead can't pass through because the bead is what stops the bobber from

3:50 passing through so they have to be bulky enough to stop the bead but they have to be small and low profile enough because you're going to be reeling them up through the Guides of your pole you're going to be reeling them up onto the spool of your reel and then you're going to be turning around and you're going to be casting it back out so this bobber stop is going to be coming off the spool on your reel back through the line guides and out into the water so you can't have something too bulky but of course you can't have something too small so that's kind of the trick with these bobber stops is to kind of get the the right one that sort of works for you that holds its place on the line good that's adjustable and movable and of course uh stops your bobber and I got a

4:36 few different styles here we'll kind of go through those this is one style of bobber stops these little rubber football types okay guys here's an example of how you would put these little rubber football type ones on a line what you do is you take the Line run it through that wire loop on the end and then you just kind of grab the little football between your fingers grab this tab and then just kind of pull it away and what it does is it pulls that line right through the little football so now you've got this stop on your line another style is this speed stop

5:25 brand and as you can see there're little plastic ones I call them dog bone style cuz it kind of look like a dog bone to me what you do is you run your line through one hole twist it around a few times and then out the other one another style are these string ones okay guys here's an example of how you use these string bobber stops just run your main line right through the straw and then what you'll do is you'll take the straw and the string and separate them pull the straw right off and you can discard it so now you've got this little slip knot string on your

6:13 main line and you just pull the ends tight and I use this heavy black line so you could see it a little bit better and then all you do after that is just cut these tag ends off and there you have it and then another type are these little plastic Four Hole ones these are actually my favorite ones to use and what you do with them is you just weave the line in and out of all four holes and then that acts as a stop

7:00 the small little rubber football style ones they hold their place on the line real well and and you can move them up and down monofilament uh pretty easy uh so they work well from that standpoint the one problem I've run into with them is if you do have to reel them up through all your line guides and up onto the spool of your reel sometimes when you go to cast back out that line will get get snagged on that uh that rubber stop you know I think they they they're not quite as low profile as I'd like they stick up a little bit and uh your line will get snagged on them sometimes casting out so I I really don't use those uh for that reason the other style the speed stop or what I like to call the dog bone style the small plastic two hold uh bobber

7:47 stops they work well they hold their place on the line um and they're very castable they they reel up and down the your line guides real easy they don't cause any problems when they're when you reel them up onto the spool and cast back out they don't really cause any problems um but where you do kind of run into a problem with them is if you go to move them a pretty good distance um because they go through one hole wrap around and then through another hole when you go to move them up and down your line they just kind of twist your line up and and that's just that's just kind of a problem I just don't want to deal with if I have to move them you know uh if you're moving them 6 8 in it's no big deal but if you wanted to move them like 10 ft it it can take a while to kind of

8:34 move them a little bit untwist the line move them again so I I generally stay away from those stops because of that um you know the other one the uh these string style ones those string style ones are very popular I know a lot of you guys out there use this string style uh I just I haven't had that good luck with them myself um one thing that happens is is they seem to go loose on me pretty easy and then they're sliding up and down the line and I'm I'm losing my Mark I'm losing my place on the line I I got to reset them um and if they're not doing that I think sometimes if you use them a couple trips you go fishing a couple times they get wet they dry out you go fishing again they get wet and then they dry out

9:21 I think sometimes they kind of cinch down on that model so tight because of that that that I can't even move them you try to move them and they're just they're just locked down on that monel and you know of course that's uh that's not ideal either so you know I generally go with those four hold small little red plastic ones they really work good for me you can adjust them up and down the line with with uh very little issue uh they're very castable and and and they work so that's what I've been going with that's that's my favorite stop is the uh four hold plastic and that's the style of stop I have on this pull here um this pole is a 7t long pull which is perfectly fine for slip bobber

10:06 fishing uh ideally uh probably 8 and 1/2 ft is even better I I do have one 8 and 1/2t Rod that I dedicate to Slit bobber fishing but uh you know you guys have heard me say this before uh you know this is con's practical Outdoors right sometimes I'm loading up two three kids in my boat uh we're going to go out we're going to slip bobber fish we're anchor over a weed bed so we're going to be casting out you know maybe six rods all different directions well I don't uh I don't have an arsenal of nice 8 and 1/2t long rods that I can dedicate just to slip bobber fishing so you know a lot of times I'll just use these 7even Footers they fit in the boat a lot easier little bit easier for my kids to cast around and and they work perfectly fine like I

10:52 said if if you're really into it you know having that longer Rod is really good you can cast things a mile with them it's really good you know sometimes you get that slack in your line when you're bobber fishing it's really good for picking up that slack and taking that slack up with the hook sets uh you know if you can imagine your line goes out it goes to the bobber and then that then from there it kind of goes straight down so you don't have a direct straight route to uh the fish's mouth when you're when you're hooking these fish with Bobbers so that longer Rod does help but again hey this is con's practical Outdoors so sometimes we got to go with the seven Footers and and this particular setup this is a Shakespeare Crusader this is a a rod reel combination I bought and and this cost me

11:37 $5 you know and and this is another thing I like to point out you really can get away uh with your setups being a lot cheaper uh with bobber fishing you know if you think about it you don't really need that highspeed gear ratio you know you you can get away with kind of a crummy gear ratio you can get away with the rod not really being balanced maybe it's a little heavy at at the end uh risk fatigue is not going to be an issue you're casting these out a lot of times we're we're leaving an open bail setting them down on the on the floor of the boat it's really you know wrist fatigue you know being a little heavier maybe not as good a quality materials really doesn't matter uh I I don't need 10 ball bearings in this reel it's not like I'm

12:23 casting it out and burning crankbaits back in all day long with this so uh that's another thing I like to point out you really can get by with a little cheaper setup you know with this bobber fishing in general but uh I'll show you the rig here this is actually kind of a fusion type line you know a super line it allows me to go with a little heavier pound test and keep the diameter down then we come to our four hole stop it's woven through there then we come to our bead come to our bobber with the grommeted end go a little a little further down we come to our sinkers ant swivel floral carbon leader in this case we've got a uh Little Hair jig on the end uh I'll usually put a leech on that

13:10 it works good for Walley and bass and uh you know that's that's the setup that I use quite often right there yeah I really like to use these thill grommeted end Bobbers it's got this nice little brass grommet there uh line slides through it really well and uh you won't wear any kind of grooves in it and you guys know these conventional Bobbers they pretty much catch anything that swims right well so do slip Bobbers um you know this set up with this pole this bobber um I'll use the same setup for bluegills bass pike Walley well there you go guys quick little overview of rigging up a slip bobber I showed you some of the different stops that are out there I

13:56 showed you the slip Bobbers that I like to use and you know if you haven't been using slip Bobbers I really recommend that you do uh I do catch a lot of fish on slip Bobbers every year cuz uh hey you guys know right you guys know the three secrets to catching fish right location location location right if all the fish are down in 20 ft of water and and you're sitting up at in 2 feet of water with your conventional clipon bobber that's just not going to cut it right you guys know that anyways hey remember this hunt fish laugh repeat this is Dave keter from keter's practical Outdoors hey thanks for watching and God bless