YOUR favorite bobber/float for live bait.

I have a good friend that is looking for a specific float that we just can't find anymore. It is a small orange float with a string that will allow you to loop your line through and pull back through the float. He goes on and on about these things and I just can't find any for him. I would like to know what kinds everyone uses so that I can try and find him some that might shut him up.
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I know it needs to be pretty small he made fun of my big plastic slip floats and I have to admit the few he still had were pretty nice and seemed to work well. I am scared if I don't find him any the earth will stop and the sky will fall.

sent you a pm where he can buy those in bulk

Betts tackle sales them also you can do a google search for cigar string float.

hope this helps

Thill crappie bobber pink and yellow

Thanks for the help!

Hands down, this one:

Rod-N-Bobb's - View Product - 1-1/2 inch Unweighted Slip Bobber – Orange Unweighted Slip Bobber For Fishing

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Originally Posted by Buckrub

Hands down, this one:

Rod-N-Bobb's - View Product - 1-1/2 inch Unweighted Slip Bobber – Orange Unweighted Slip Bobber For Fishing

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Holy Moley! $3.69 each????!!!!!

I can't afford them but they look nice and probably work good.

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Originally Posted by mdperson

Betts tackle sales them also you can do a google search for cigar string float.

hope this helps

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Thanks for posting these on the thread also, I may have to try these out.

i just cant give up on the real cork floats about one inch in size , my grandfather and i used them on fly rods with a small split wieght small hook with a cricket for bream back in the 70's and i still use that set up today :cheers2

JoeFish, I have used the same ones for about 5 years. I did lose one earlier this year, first time.

It is the easiest cork to read (the part about bait fishing that I love to do), and slides easily, allowing underhand tosses into very tight, small spots.

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Originally Posted by Buckrub

JoeFish, I have used the same ones for about 5 years. I did lose one earlier this year, first time.

It is the easiest cork to read (the part about bait fishing that I love to do), and slides easily, allowing underhand tosses into very tight, small spots.

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Well I am glad to hear it! I showed him and he wants me to order all three sizes just to be sure and that will be 150 floats!?!?!?

Read the instructions. The spring on top is the key. Crappie often don't take the cork under, but they have the bait. Learning how/when to set the hook by reading the cork is my favorite thing on earth to do. I used to love bass fishing plastic worms, and did it often. I love the 'thump' and setting the hook. I know that jigs with crappie are similar, but faster, and I SHOULD love that, but I don't. I love watching that cork. It's not rational, it's not as productive, it's not as fast, but somehow I just love doing it.

Oh, I also tried those 'weighted' corks and did NOT like them. And as for size, any of them actually work.......you just have to adjust by putting on the exact size lead weight. I have a little box of lead weights in every scaled size imaginable.

You do NOT need 150 floats! I'd get about 3 of each if you are absolutely not sure of the size you want. They ain't going anywhere, and you can always order more. I haven't seen these for sale anywhere else, though. I will say that Walmart has a simple Red/white slip float for less than a dollar that will work just fine. I also have a zillion of the green/white Mr. Crappie slip floats, but they are just not long enough for their weight.

Dang. I can't catch a fish, but now I sound like the board's expert on flipping corks!!! Don't mean to sound like I know stuff, I don't.........I just have tried 'em all and I'm old, that's all! :twocents