Slip Bobbers Work Great for Fly Fishing

The last couple summers I’ve been spending a day or two with friend and superb high altitude lake guide John Perizzolo, chasing big trout on the lakes here in Colorado, our home state, with fly rods. John guides for Breckenridge Outfitters and manufactures JP’s Nymping Mud as a side business. He is especially adept at figuring out the picky trout that reside in our high altitude impoundments.

Occasionally we’ll resort to 25-foot leaders with three-fly rigs. In these instances a slip bobber is invaluable for landing fish and an almost must have. In this video John demonstrates how and why a slip bobber is so effective on a fly rod in certain situations like this.