Thanks for the offer, I go out on my kayak and do the same thing once the weather warms up. Drifting with the slip bobbers a couple feet from the boat is a lot of fun too. The floats disapear so fast that the rod is usually bent right over before you grab it from the holder during the summer.
Calicanuck,
I'm headed up to Big Bear next week for the first time and plan to use this slip bobber approach. We're staying in Boulder Bay. Any other tips for this area? Looks like the weather temps will be dropping back down to the 40's.
Thanks in advance!
So if you get there early in the day start out shallow with your stopper, 8 feet down. Then very it during the day to increase you action. I go deeper when the sun is at its highest mid day, down to 15 feet. If you see fish swimming around near the surface you can try putting it at 4-5 feet down which works sometimes if they are very active. With the temps on the down swing though they may be less active and you may not catch as many as on a warming trend. Good luck up their. Also if the slip bobber is not working try something else. Don't sit there all day using the same thing if you aren't seeing any bites on that bobber.
Yes, I'll definitely be using different methods. We'll be there for four days, so plenty of time to experiment. I just picked up some bolsa bobbers today. This will be my son's first time fishing a lake, so he'll be learning a lot this weekend! By the way, do you ever use power worms with this technique, or always real worms?
Thanks a lot for your feedback. Much appreciated.
good info calicanuck I will be going up on saturday morning and staying overnight in big bear probably fishing sunday morning as well...I may give this method a go.
thanks again.
Hey guys, just thought I would share a video of my son catching his first fish of many more to come! We didn't have any luck with the slip-bobber technique, but they were biting just fine on garlic eggs!
Last edited by Risso; 03-21-2013 at 10:40 AM.