Originally Posted By: sprkplug
Don't forget to balance your bobber/float. Size is half the solution, the other half is balance! If you wait until the fish takes the float (even a small float) under before setting the hook, you may end up with deep sets. A properly balanced float will definitively register a light take, including an uptake, and will help prevent gut hooks.


What Tony is talking about is using one of those long slender bobbers. Use enough weight so that the fat body of the bobber is below the water and just the colored tip is out.

You can use a medium split shot near the hook, and a larger one right under the bobber to balance the bobber. That way the fish doesn't feel all of the weight.

If the bobber rises in the water column, a fish has taken the bait. If you are using a round beach ball bobber, there's no way to tell that.

I'll also use an ice fishing bobber. Very small and if it twitches, I set the hook.

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