rigging a slip bobber?

[muggs]

I don't normally fish with bobbers while ice fishing (I usually just jig etc...) but I'd like to start using bobbers for gills and crappie.  Just wonder, what do you place on the line to stop the bobber at the proper depth? 

Do you use a knot, small split shot??

[njsimonson]

Bobber stops or bobberstops and then a bead prior to your float, depending on float choice. 

There are many varieties of bobberstops.  The first is a small nylon string that is attached to a black tube, the second is a rubber stop which is on a small metal wire.  You should be able to find the string versions in smaller packs of 10-25, or bulk packs of 100 and the rubber ones in packs of five at your favorite outdoors stores. 

If you use IceBuster brand floats (yellow sticks of foam), you won't need a bead.  They are very useful and customizable to your fishing needs.

[munchy71]

I typically use a bobber stop.  Preferrably the rubber ones.....if I can find 'em for the light lines I usually use for pannies....

-Munchy

[BUCKSKI]

they also make a three hole bobberstop that made out of plastic, don't use em for ice fishing with light line.
I would also use the rubber bobberstops.

Also they make kits with all the parts needed, knots& beads.
Also use and extremely light float, fish will feel the resistence on the bigger ones.
Never used the floats mentions above, they look nice.

[nd.walleye]

The ice buster ones are the best I've used so far - they sell them small (perch/gills/etc) and large (walleye/etc) and can be cut to optimize their efficiency with the size of lures your using (cut them). They are also really nice because they don't freeze up like a standard slip bobber - the line and the slip which the line goes through is all kept under water so they don't freeze when they're in the water. When using bobbers for ice fishing this is the only kind i use.

[scavengerj]

Thil (sp?) makes a very nice slip float. It is an ultrlight quill type of float maybe an inch long. It has a rubber sleeve that fits over the bottom end with a very small swivel inside of the sleeve with just one end of the swivel sticking out to run your line through. Using a rubber or string type of bobber stop works great. Only problem I don't like about using bobbers/bobber stops is, that sometimes the line tends to hang on them when coming off of the reel. No big deal really but, if you have light line and have a decent sized fish on and enough line is reeled on so that the bobber stop is under a couple of turns of the line on the reel and the fish makes a run, there is the possibility that the line may hang and cost you a fish and a rig if the line breaks 

[CrappieBuster]

Two Words...


Icebuster Bobber.

[ice dawg]

I got some bobber stops this year that are shaped like an elongated egg made of plastic. You lay your line through the enter of the egg and snap the two sides together and that is all there is to it. That should be better than trying to work with a knot on a cold day.

[Oldbear]

I like the Ice Busters with a bobber stop as mentioned the stop is in the water below the float and because they clip on and off in a second if you want to jig instead.

[dabber-doo]

The only thing I'm going to say is spring bobbers all the way and get rid of the slip bobbers for ice fishing.

[adkbrookie]

The only thing I'm going to say is spring bobbers all the way and get rid of the slip bobbers for ice fishing.

what about deadsticking a second rod with some kind of slip bobber to pick up the more passive fish?