Fishermen often over-analyze a situation, make techniques and approaches too complex. We end up outsmarting ourselves. We can cite a million reasons, from the weather to the calendar, for why fish ...

What Is a Slip Bobber and Why Use One? A slip bobber is a low-impact way to present a bait at a certain depth, whether it's just off the bottom, just above weed tops or at the same level as suspended ...

What is a Slip Bobber Rig? A slip bobber rig requires a few key components to tie everything together, but the star of the show - and what gives this rig its name - is a float (bobber) that has a hole ...

Legendary north woods guide Greg Bohn is known as Mr. Slip Bobber for a good reason -- he's spent the past 30 years in northern Wisconsin perfecting the tactic that is one of the most used and least ...

My sonar unit registered a large school of crappies suspended over one of Lake Arthur’s submerged creek channels. The bulk of the fish appeared to be holding in 8 or 9 feet of water over the 13-foot ...

Crappie fishing is a signal spring is upon. When “slabs”, as big crappie are called, are found close to shore, you should also expect turkeys to be gobbling and morel mushrooms to be popping. I’ve ...

Maligned by experts, the lowly bobber is the symbol of amateur anglers across the land. That representation is unfair. A bobber is a device that alerts an angler that a fish has taken his bait. It ...