Home made catfish slipcorks

Similar to cjs corks. Hope you like it.
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looks good i get mine from a frind who makes them by hand and i can tell you they are the most sestive bobbers i have ever use i sooner you can detect that fish the better. with the ones he makes i can tell if a fish is just feeing it it wont float right it really increased my catch i seen some simaler add out of wine corks i think

Nice job cool

Hmm, that is a good use for old wine corks. I have plenty of them laying around, might have to hit up home depot and get some dowel rods and other materials and make a few myself. Question though, how should the float be floating? Should it be straight up and down normally? Doesn't the wood from the dowel try to float up flat with the surface of the water?

One of the coolest ideas I've ever seen for a cheap homemade slip cork is foam ear plugs with coffee stirrers down the middle.

Nice

I like those may try to make some myself.

Care to expand a little? Give us a short tutorial ..looks like a worthy project.

Thanks
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Mike

x2

Agreed!

I'll ask again would you expand on how to make these? I think we all like to use equipment that we make our selves that works.

Thank you
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Mike

22 gauge wire wrap four times around a screwdriver. Find an area where to put the eye on. Wrap it up with sewing thread or trhead you use for fly tying
The green labled hardwood or balas is what i use.

Balsa

Thanks !! so the one in the pic will be cut and make 2 correct? Right now I have lots of down time still recovering from a hospital stay in April. and don't ya know its killing me, 2 weeks ago you couldn't launch a boat at my local lake and with all the rain its over full an calling my name....soon enough.
So now a trip to the Walmart and I have a project to take up some time!!

Thanks a lot
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Mike

Actually its one long bobber for extra sensitvity

If you take the little green bobber in the op, you can run the line through the lack stopper out the bottom tie on a Carolina rig and put your bobber stopper at the appropriate height(I use a piece of 30 lb mono with a couple half hitches and trimmed tag ends for a bobber stop. I use it to catch crappie white bass cats et. fish look at those floats and they go under, no need for all the extra work, besides I would hate to have to store a handful of those in the boat. just my

easy to tie bobber stop knot

http://www.netknots.com/fishing_knots/bobber-stopper-knot/