I fish with kids pretty often, and everybody loves bobber and bait fishing. To keep baits in the zone we use slip floats quite a bit.
When we fish deeper I like to use a little more weight and a bigger float. I’ve had the same bag of thread knots tied on little tubes for probably 15 years and it’s almost gone. These things work great with less weight, but 1/2 or 3/4oz moves them and we have to check everything pretty often. I’ve put a little superglue on them, but obviously that eliminates moving the thing.
I just got some 15gr slip floats online and they came with rubber stops on wire loops. Ive used this kind before and they’re easy to put on. I’m a little worried about trying to slide them up 20’ of line. I would assume it would get hot and open up the hole a little.
I’ve used the tiny plastic ones with 4 holes in them. After you thread the line through you can move them, but you need a needle to pick it apart. If you don’t pick it, it will heat fray the line. I’ve always steered away from these mostly because I was too lazy/blind to deal with the tiny threading. I’ve all but given up fly fishing for essentially the same reason, kinda tough to tie on a size 18 elk hair caddis on 8x.
So the question is, what do you use?
I’ll need to get another bag of knots this season, but I’m willing to try anything. I’ll probably get a pack of the 4 hole style too.
