Both depending on water conditions. Fixed in small water for the most part and sliding everywhere else.

Slide,slide,slippetty slide.Good luck,
STRIKE ZONE

good point!

I'm more inclined to the slider, stops above and below. Only time I use a fixed float, anymore, is along cut banks where my presentation depth is constant.
Deeper than three to five feet I favor a sliding float.

good point on the 2 bobber stops never thought of that and will prolly save a lot more floats this way

Agian, Fixed for steelhead, sliding for salmon/bait. I guess I am just lazy but I usually catch more then my share with a fixed cork. Quick and easy. I fish mostly small streams though, so that is a lot of the reason behind it too.

i personaly do not know a single person who can properly present a jig with a sliding float. noone seems to know how to balance thier setup right. getting you float and jig balanced right so you can read your float to know what your jig is doing, that is the key. i see far to many people with thier floats laying flat, either up river or down river. using to much or to little wieght for the water they are fishing, and wonder what they are doing wrong when someone who knows what they are doing walks in and catches fish out from under them.

imo it is far easier to read what your jig is doing with a fixed float, regardless of the style of float. i personaly use round cork floats for most of my float fishing. also 90% of the water i fish is 8ft or shallower, so fixed floats are all i fish.

the only time i will fish a sliding float is when i have no room behind me.

+1, float stop knots above and below the float has saved me a few sliding floats through the years. Make your own sliding float stops, "nail knot", with a 4" piece of 20lb. or 30lb. braided Dacron or fly line backing, depending on stopper bead hole size. 20lb. preferred for sliding through the rod guides better when I have a small enough bead hole size. I use a piece of folded mono. to pull the tag through to tie the Dacron nail knot to the main line. I also like to epoxy the appropriate sized glass bead to the top of all my sliding floats. Glass beads slide easier and don't get line grooves that plastic beads will get sometimes.

I have always used a sliding float setup. There are plenty of people who know how to fish a sliding float with a perfect presentation.

Sliding... virtually always.

Although BroodBuster's idea is a good one I never thought of.

Dont get me wrong, I do use sliding floats when called for, but here are a few reasons why I will use fixed over 90% of the time.

1. in smaller/shorter buckets, fixed floats will not add any drag to the line when falling into the strike zone, and thus getting there much faster.

2. shallow strikes are Instantaneous, where as with a sliding rig the float must hit the stop before there is an indication.

3. my favorite of them all.... ONE KNOT!!

The list goes on.

Tony

AND HOW

I do see alot of people dragging their jigs acrross the bottom though.

drifter101:

Can tell you haven't fished around myself or 8 to 10 others that have prefected...bobber and jig fishing for summerrun.

Believe me....we know how to balance the bobber!!! Yea we do!!!!

see the following web site....just check the pictures out...I'm the old fart on opening page, well if 69 is old.....lol

http://www.bradsjigs.com/

Drifter, do you know what brand of bobber stops they are ?? I want some that won't move unless I move them.

I fish 30 & 40 lb. PP on my float rods & get major slipping w/ the batch of stops I have. Ready to chuck them, I even put 2 on back-to-back & they still slip!!



c/22

I use a fixed float when fishing jigs for steelhead.

I usually use a slider when fishing bait for salmon or steelhead.

For a fixed float, I prefer the Thill Turbomaster........fished with just the jig, with one knot. Mono with musclin is my line of choice.

For sliders, I like the Thill Big Fish slider, or the West Coast foam floats. But since fishing bait doesn't require much "readability" out of the float, any old sliding float will do.

I almost never fish a jig under a slider.

Sliding for me most of the time.

C/22,
Have ever tried these types pf rubber stops?

I do get a kick out of watching people fish their floats wrong. Some people I try to help and they think they know it all so I just laugh and move on. We call them dead floats going down the river because half the time its laying flat on the water!

+1

Sliding for me. Havent have much success running fixed

He's right. Another big advantage of fixed floats is that you don't have to worry about the drag from cross-currents pulling the stop off the float (and hense pulling your jig up above the fish's level). This is a huge advantage in big, fast rivers.