Been fishing "bobber/floats" jigs for 15+ years and found many things in that time...

1. Hi vis lines do not affect your fishing

2. Colored bobbers or floats do not, for the most part, scare fish.

3. Any rod can be used for this type of fishing, saw a person using a "tuna rod" cause that's all he had.

4. Until about 5 years ago..mono lines was all I used......tried braid...never going back to mono........the positive features of braid far out-weight the negative....yea, know all about line wrapping around tip....lost 2 tips cause of this.

5. Banking fishing......long is better.....current rod is Lamiglas 13', 3 piece....long rods allow you to "keep more line off the water"....and that is very important to get a natural drift. That said, 2 of my favorite rods are a Shakespear and a Shimano 10.5 foot.....have used those to catch "lot's of fish".

6. Used to make all my bobber from the backing material stuff.....did the plastic straw bit, top and bottom......painted the tops.......but not any more. Since I've gone to Braided line i've not lost a bobber in 4-5 years. Use 20# braid and leader material to either 6, 8, 10 pound.

7. Spinning reels for me and most others I fish around. Used to used Shimano Spirex but now use only Stradic...fast retrieve.

8. Jigs.......wow, tried them all.......have 100's that I've bought from everywhere....but now most of my jigs are from one of my fishing pardners....Bradsjigs.....do a search look that site over. Video, by me...and lot's of pictures


picture below is some of the bobbers/floats I've found.........I use mostly the "round cork", smaller size but will try another type if I find one....