Frozen slip bobber

[Guest]

I was out with my brother. Both him and I were using slip bobbers. Both of us were having to break of the ice off the bobber. We would have to pull the line down, through the bobber to get the bait down the hole. What is a good remedy for this? This is really my first year of ice fishing. I do not have a ice shelter. Any help, please. Thanks.

[bmc]

Try either ice buster bobbers (they don't require a bead) or use thill floats, the one's with the black plastic stick on the bottom. Put a swivel clip through the hole in the black plastic, then run your line through the other end of the swivel. This method does require a bead, so being you're fishing outside, the ice buster bobber would probably work better.

Brian

[Skeets]

Ice Buster Bobbers=No more frozen stops.
Buy some, you will throw away all other bobbers in your taclke box, like I did 3 years ago.

[Guest]

Thanks for the advice. I'm going to go to Gander Mountain and pick some up.

[metrojoe]

Everything you put on your line is just one more thing for the water to freeze to. Try fishing without a bobber. My second line has a slip bobber on it(Ice Buster of course), but I do almost all of my fishing bobberless. I started out by putting spring bobbers on my rods, but I found using a rod with a sensitive tip is really the way to go. If your fishing for them bulls in the shallow water swith to a more traditional set-up and use the old hand over hand method.

[Guest]

The icebuster's are the real deal, and work awesome. I used to drill out the holes in my on-line slip bobbers, which did help some, but there was always some buildiup using a bead. But the other's were right, once I tried ice buster's, the rest of my bobbers seldom get used (in winter).

Tight Lines

Mort