Fishing With Slip-Bobbers on Deep Lakes

If you like to fish lakes (like Blackhawk Lake in Iowa County, WI for example) one of the things you quickly find out is that it’s difficult to cast your line out when fishing deep water with a bobber. The trailing line is hard to work with and often ends up wrapped around something or someone.

Try a slip-bobber for fishing when you need to fish deeper than a few feet. This is a very simple system consisting of a bobber stop, plastic bead and a bobber with a hole in it. The bobber stop can be bought in any sport shop and will slide onto your line and can be adjusted to any depth. The beauty of it is that it can be slid to any depth allowing you to fish as deep as you like. The plastic bead keeps your bobber from sticking on the bobber stop.

Slip-bobbers come in many sizes and styles. Choose the one that you like best and then when you find a place where the fish are at ten feet deep, you will be ready to get them without all the fuss and hassle of ten feet of line dangling from your rod and reel. They’re great for kids too.

Dan Bomkamp - author and host of the radio show "How's Fishing"