How to Use bobber in a Sentence

bobber

noun
  • In my opinion, there is no better time to go bobber fishing than in the spring.
    — Nicole Stone, Outdoor Life, 15 May 2024
  • Depending on the depth, set your bobber just a few feet from bottom.
    — Nicole Stone, Outdoor Life, 15 May 2024
  • Present them under a bobber or float, putting them at crappie eye level.
    — John Phillips, Outdoor Life, 14 May 2026
  • For the fourth year, a 7-foot fishing bobber will drop at midnight to ring in the new year.
    — Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 27 Dec. 2025
  • These live baits can be fished with jigs, spinner harnesses, or slip bobbers.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 13 June 2024
  • Each child will receive a small tackle box filled with bobbers, lures and other items.
    — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The fall rate can also be affected by the use of a bobber stopper.
    — Derek Horner, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Cast it above likely holding places, let the bait drift through, and wait for the bobber to shoot under.
    — Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 12 June 2024
  • Each child taking part will receive a small tackle box filled with bobbers, lures and other items.
    — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
  • That reduces the length of line below your bobber, making casting easy.
    — Pete M. Anderson, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Do some bobber fishing for panfish, throw lures at bass, target walleye or fall in love with something else.
    — Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Night crawlers under a bobber or on the bottom can be effective for multiple species.
    — Olivia Rose, AZCentral.com, 23 June 2024
  • Fly fishermen call it a strike indicator, but this one truly was a bobber.
    — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Before long, the bobber twitched and slowly started moving toward the middle of the pond.
    — Idaho Statesman, 2 Mar. 2016
  • His idea of fishing back then was to attach a blob of Magic Bait and drop it beneath a bobber.
    — Star Tribune, 31 Mar. 2021
  • The rod’s high-contrast tip eliminates the need for an accessory spring bobber.
    — Field & Stream, 26 Feb. 2021
  • What few there were got pounded by boys like me, each armed with a push-button reel, a hooked nightcrawler, and a red-and-white bobber the size of a tennis ball.
    — The Editors, Field & Stream, 4 June 2020
  • Pay particular attention to the float, a fishing bobber-like piece that’s attached to the valve.
    — John Kennedy, Popular Science, 23 Aug. 2020
  • Using night crawlers either under a bobber or on the bottom can also help anglers catch catfish and sunfish.
    — Olivia Rose, AZCentral.com, 23 June 2024
  • A little bobber on one end tells you when the water level is low and needs a top-off simply by floating lower than the growing surface.
    — Kat Merck, Wired News, 23 July 2025
  • The attackers had fashioned a rudimen- tary timing device from a fishing bobber in a leaky bucket of water.
    — John Archibald, Southern Living, 16 Mar. 2026
  • That induced an up and down oscillating motion known as a gravity wave — akin to the ripples produced by a bobber in a pond.
    — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2021
  • In summer, parents can bring their children, use a worm for bait under a bobber, and have the chance to catch scads of bluegill during the evening dusk bite in shaded coves.
    — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 May 2021
  • The rig tumbles downriver for 10 feet, then the bobber sags beneath the surface and Kiehm rips a hookset.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The simplest approach is to fish a single nymph below a strike indicator—which is really just a fancy term for a bobber.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 10 May 2023
  • Baits can be fished on or near bottom, or, given high water, under a slip bobber along the edge of creek channels or among flooded vegetation.
    — M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 21 June 2023
  • But as the summer wanes on and the grass gets thicker, a bobber stopper might be necessary to get your bait through the holes in the grass and to the bottom where the bass lie in wait.
    — Derek Horner, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The ever-intentional, word-conscious quarterback seemed to be floating out the phrase like a fishing bobber.
    — Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Lightly hooked through the lips or underneath the dorsal fin, minnows work exceptionally well under a bobber, too.
    — M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 20 June 2024
  • His was a random assortment, the stuff of Walmart value packs, including the clip-on bobber balls that amateurs use.
    — Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025

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