Slip Bobber Set up

[Walleye #1]

Have a Question for you guys-
What is your favorite type of slip bobber set up? Do you most of you prefer using just a hook a minnow? Or is a jig the way to go? I prefer using a glow jig or some kind of green hook. I am looking for some new ideas for this ice season. I definitely am hooked on the ice buster bobber, it is bar none the best ice fishing bobber.

Keep the auger drilling
and
rods bending

Walleye #1

[hunt4food]

I like a red Gamagatsu hook. I have also become very fond of Northland tackles Forage Minnow. they come with either a single hook or a small treble. I like the single hook model and then a small minnow hooked through the back.

[Steve Foss]

I usually use a Nortland Forage Minnow or Glow Demon and hook the minnow backward behind the dorsal. It struggles nicely against the jigs, which glow. Sometimes, a minnow on a plain hook can swim away too actively. An aggressive fish will smack a minnow anchored to one of those jigs, but a neutral fish, I believe, won't chase a minnow around too much.

There have been a very few times when fish seem put off by the jig, and then I'll put on a small red bare hook and run the split shot a few inches apart from each other staggered to within 6 inches of the hook, which anchors the minnow better than two or three shot clustered together 18 inches up.

Good luck.

[Ice Hole]

I like using an in-line cigar style bobber by thill, a red gama hook with a couple small GLOW BEADS fit snug onto the shank of the hook, and some splitshot. Otherwise I use a glowdemon. It just depends what lake and what the fish want. The style bobber I mentioned I have found is the easiest to de-ice out of any other bobber I have used. All ya do is blow through it. The heat from your breath clears it out every time. Rarely do they freeze up anyways. I am sure you already know this, but making sure you have enough weight on your line so that the bobber barely pokes through the water is essential.

[Matt D]

Every time I fish perch/walleye I have two rods. One has my favorite jig/lure with minnow/waxie for the current 10 minutes. The other almost always has a slip bobber with a plain hook and a lively minnow hooked just under the skin below the rear of the dorsal fin. It's the most natural presentation possible, period. Especially compared to the jigging rod setup with some gaudy combination of metal and meat. Invariably, one is hotter than the other and I end up switching to double-up on the hot presentation. But the one that is the most consistent producer (and why it always gets put in the water) is the plain hook/minnow. It's the presentation I'd pick over any other in a heartbeat!

[Bruce Mosher]

Ice Hole, You will have to try the Ice Buster Bobbers. NEVER Freeze to your line and many other features that are unmatched. You can save your breath blowing into all the other bobbers when your line freezes to 'em and then you'll be able to brag about your fish later! I like to use spoons, split shots and a red hook, Glow jigs and whatever the situation presents to entice a strike. The Angel Eyes, Demons and Northland Tackles Forage Minnows are all hot tickets for me. Bruce Mosher

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Bruce Mosher,www.icebusterbobbers.com