Slip Bobbers - Tricks For Setting The Depth

on today's video we're gonna go over how you can accurately set the depth of your slip offers a their outdoor youtubers stave conundrum kinetise practical old doors and you know in today's video we're gonna be talking about setting the depth of our slip bobber rigs now if you want to set that depth at like two three four feet it's really pretty straightforward right you're probably going to use the same method that you always used with your clip-on styles of ours right you just kind of eyeball say three feet clip the bobber on cast it out and you're good to go no of course the difference with the slip bobbers is you're not really clipping the bobber on you're actually adjusting the bobber stop and you know I did do a video on several different types of bobber stops if you're kind of interested in that go to my channel kinetise practical outdoors and the title of the video is called how to rig for different types of slip bobber stops so I get into the nuts and bolts of the actual stops themselves you know so I think if you're interested now you probably enjoy that video but for this video we're just gonna talk about setting the depth of our slip bobber rigs and again if you're just going to or three feet you're probably just gonna eyeball it adjust your stop to towards three feet whatever you want and you'll be good to go but let's think about some other scenarios you know because with slip bobbers we can fish at a very wide array of depths right we can pretty much fish at any depth we want we're not limited by the length of the pole like we were with these old clip on style barbers so let's let's throw in a scenario there let's say we're anchored out in a weed flat we're anchored in 10 feet of water it's 10 feet of water all around us we're going to be casting on different directions out into ten feet of water there's you know there's some weeds on the bottom so we don't want to go right down to the bottom let's say we want to be two feet off the bottom okay so we want to set our slip outer stop at eight feet well how do we go about doing that right you know do we break out a tape measure and measure out eight feet and set our stop there yeah that's kind of a clunky way to do things so what I like to do and and I do measure you know I will be measuring out that eight feet but instead of using a measuring tape I'm going to be using a measuring stick and that measuring stick is going to be the rod that I'm using this particular rod this is a seven foot rod so we can use that seven feet as a reference to get our stop to eight feet right so what I like to do set the bobber stop right toward the tip of the pole like this one is and pull the line back down and as you can see my jig it might be a hook but in this case it's a jig this jig is about a foot from the bottom of the pole and the length of this pole is seven feet so I need to move this bobber stop about two more feet up give us two more feet of depth so I got the bobber stop here and I'm just gonna guesstimate two feet right there and it'll be the same thing I'm gonna reel it up let me get that bobber stop break toward the tip of the pole I'm gonna pull this back now and there we go our jig it's about ten inches below the end of the pole so it's really not quite eight feet and if we're pretty particular we can adjust it even more you can add another couple inches to it and then again we're gonna reel that stop up that stops right at the tip of the pole stick her up in the air pull this line back and there we go you know that's that's pretty close to one more foot beyond the length of this pole we've got a seven foot pole so we know we're really close to eight feet with that set up I stopped is real close to eight feet so we can cast out into that ten feet water even if there's some low-lying weeds and this jig we're probably gonna throw a leech on or something this jig in that leech are just gonna be hovering above that low-lying weeds and hopefully we'll catch some fish right okay here's another scenario let's say we're out in 25 feet of water okay and we're anchored in 25 feet of water and again we're gonna be fishing in 25 feet of water well we might want to set our stops at 24 feet you know just to have that jig or hook with a warm on or whatever we happen to be using maybe we want that a foot off the bottom so maybe we want to set our stop at 24 feet well I'm probably not gonna be using the seven foot rod as a reference to measure out 24 feet that's that's really not gonna work over a well that's that's gonna be really clunky to do that so how do we go about doing it well what I like to do in that situation is I like to break out these little clip on weights right and you ice fishermen out there you know exactly where I'm going with this but you know they really work well in certain situations slip bobber fishing in the summer too and all you're gonna do with this is you're going to clip this onto your hook or jig and you're gonna drop it over the side of the boat and you're gonna let it down over the side of the boat and you're just gonna adjust your stop up and down until this bobber sinks about one foot below the surface of the water this is going to be on the bottom don't it's gonna hit the bottom and we want to set our stop so this weight brings this Bober about 1 foot below the surface of the water right is that when we reel up and we take this off and now when we cast it out now the bobber is gonna be on the surface and this hook or jig is gonna be about 1 foot off the bottom okay so these work real well for some situations in the summertime too now here's another scenario let's say we're drifting along and we come across a 16 foot hump we drift across the 16 foot hump and there's all kinds of fish on top of it so we slip off to the side throw the anchors out so now we want to be able to cast our slip bobbers up to the 16 foot hump you know we probably want to set our stops at about 15 feet right trouble is this time now we're anchored in 30 feet of water so we really can't use the water that we're anchored and we can't use that as a reference to set our slip bobber stop you know like we did in the other scenario with the clip on weight now we're anchored in 30 feet of water but we want to cast up to 16 we want to probably set our stops at 15 so how we're gonna do that right well I'm probably not gonna want to use the length of the rod as a reference on that one it 15 feets a little long it's gonna be a little clunky to try to use this rod as a measuring stick you know for 15 feet so what I like to do in that situation is I like to use my own personal wingspan as the measuring tape and and I know in just three years I've measured a few different times when I stretch my wingspan Oh without stretching all the way just a nice easy like right there boom that's five feet okay so all's I'm gonna do I'm gonna put my hooker jig in one hand and I'm just going to slide out by feet at a time there's five there's ten I came to my stop now so I'm gonna slide that stop just a little bit there's ten I'm gonna keep the stop between these fingers I'm gonna keep sliding it sliding it and there's 15 this stop is going to be really really close to set at the 15 foot mark so now we should be able to cast up on top of that 16 foot hump and hopefully catch some of those fish that we marked right you know most of the time a slip bobber fishermen we know the depth that we want to set our bobber stops too we know the depth that we want to be fishing in but sometimes we don't right sometimes we're casting the areas and we're not sure of the depth you know we might have an idea in our heads but we might be fishing from shore so we're not completely sure the depth that we're casting out to own to a lake for me personally a lot of times I'm fishing from a boat and I'm casting to shore and you know I can kind of guesstimate but you know I'm not completely sure the depth that I'm casting to so a lot of times I'm doing a little bit of trial and error you know maybe I think I'm casting a new about five feet of water so I'll set my stop to four but if I'm not getting bit I may start to slide that stop up a little bit and bring that rig down in the water call them a little bit more thinking that maybe maybe I guesstimate it a little bit wrong maybe I'm too high maybe that's not why I'm catching fish so I'll experiment a little bit like that and what you can do when you're experimenting is you can go too far right you can set that stop too deep and now your rig goes down and it goes right to the bottom and it's just laying there on the bottom and most of the time that's not really what you're trying to do with slip offers right so one thing another thing that I'd like to point out is that you know I like to fish with these still bothers you still slip bobbers grommeted end and I really like to go with the unweighted ones okay this the same style of bobber comes weighted or unweighted now I'll kind of explain why what happens if you use the weighted bobbers and you cast out especially if you're experimenting with the death you're not really sure the depth that you're casting to and if you've got your rig set too deep to where your rig is going right to the bottom before the stop comes in contact with this it's harder to tell if that's happening with these weighted bobbers because this is what happens you cast this Bob wrote and the line slides through it but even before the stop reaches the top of the bobber this weighted one sits upright right away because it's got this weight on it so immediately this bobber sits upright okay even if that rig slides all the way through sits on the bottom and the stop hasn't even reached this one yet this Bob will be sitting upright whereas the unweighted bobber you cast this out it likes to lay on its side and it'll lay on its side until the rig slide slide slides until the stop comes in contact with it and now it'll sit upright if the rig is off the bottom your sinker is your hook that sort of thing if that's off the bottom and this bobber is holding the whole weight of your rig now it'll stand upright if you've got your bobber stop set too deep with this unweighted bobber it'll just lay on its side it'll slide all the way through all the way through your rig hits the bottom the stop is still out here somewhere this Bob will still lay on its side so it's kind of an indication that you've got your bobber stop depth set to deep you know if you use these unweighted bobbers so that's just another little thing to keep in mind you know when you're buying a few bobbers me personally especially when I'm experimenting I really like to go with the unweighted ones so keep that in mind and also remember to hunt fish laughs repeat Dave kaneto from kinetise practical outdoors hey thanks for watching and God bless

Channel: Knetters Practical Outdoors

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Length: 12min 37sec (757 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 22 2017