I will be glad to give advice....

If you going to slip cork, you will want to get a long rod around 8ft or 10ft with a small spinning reel that will hold 6lb or 4lb line. You will have to get a float that is slim and a 1/4 oz egg weight sinker. I recommend you go to Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation website and look at their video on "close to home fishing". They was fishing Hefner with Carl Jones, and he is the guy that know all about slip corking.

For me, I really don't slip cork, the action is too slow and you have to pay attention to the cork. My main fishing is cast and retrieve I use 4lb line with a 1/8 oz jig and I drag the jig near bottom and work it really slow. I have been doing this for a long time, so if you need any pointers just ask. Also you may want to do a search for my name on this site and there are several post I did last year on cast and retrieve. So, good luck.

Snappiee