Thread: slip bobbers?

where do you guys purchase the Dacron

Any sporting goods store will have it. It is usually used for fly line backing or trolling. Some places sell it in spools and some sell it by the yard. I have gotten it from Academy and Bass Pro Shops, getting several different diameters, based on whether it's for catfish or crappie. You want larger diameter for the cats, since you are using much heavier line and your eyelets are bigger. Use smaller diameter for crappie, since you are using lighter line and have smaller eyelets. The line diameter, dacron diameter, bead size and bead eye diameter need to match up to have maximum efficiency and minimum problems. It might take some experimentation.

I use unwaxed dental flause for my stop knots. But I'm cheap!

Crappiepappa, I have heard of that, will have to try it (If my wife will let me use hers).

Originally Posted by rdjj71m

Crappiepappa, I have heard of that, will have to try it (If my wife will let me use hers).

My wife's dental floss is now in my tackle box. Bigfishmama is the one with the hatchet, and I'm the one who usually has a knot on the noggin.

Never tried it in the winter but, spring spawn it works great, especially shallow fishing. I use the prepackaged Mr Crappie slipfloat/botterstop, makes it simple to hook up and use. Once you get the depth, hang on and open the lifewell door!

As Bigskyfisherman stated I have seen Carl Jones and others catch crappie at Hefner with a slip cork and jig at 25-30 ft. I have caught a few that way but never really got the hang of it. Carl has been fishing that way for years and he is an expert at it.

You have to read the cork. The first time I took my son-in-law out to Hefner, he said: "Why did you swing? The cork didn't go down." Out of sixteen crappie caught, he only saw one bite (the only one that pulled the cork). The others, it was just the way the cork rose, or set back down. Fred was up at CB a week or so ago, and slayed 'em. Others were corking and did nothing, mostly, I think, because they just couldn't read the super subtle bite. Gina and I got them pretty well on the cork last week, and there wasn't one time that the tiny bobber got dunked.
I just watched Carl for hours before I started corking for crappie, back in the early 80's. When I first started watching, I was like my son-in-law, not recognizing the bite. I had corked for cats, but that is a totally different bite. You will learn a lot faster if you watch a guy who is good at it, just as in most things in life. Getting together with a wiser, older head beats learning from a manual, seven ways from Sunday.