Float making.

[mikench]

I will try a quiver rod. Stupidly thought it couldn't be done. The Avon I pick up Tuesday should be spot on for it too. That's it for me then. No more rods, not even as gifts! Enough!

When have i heard that before. You forgot the words “ until the next one” .


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[hague01]

I do and without any issues. The Silverlite, Parabolix, PI Carbonactive and a Greys Torreón so far. I have also used it with a Tryptich but you wouldn’t expect any issues with that. Out of interest I tried the balsa one and a newish no 2 and the former is as light and much better than the latter and with much improved visibility. The latter may have been unused because the others were not very good imo. They performed perfectly yesterday with my 10’ bomb rod and gentle lobs of about 25 yards or so. For telling you where your feeder is for firing in pellets, gb or maggots there is nothing else and I know one patch of water looks very much like another

When have i heard that before. You forgot the words “ until the next one” .


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No. I promise!

 

[purplepeanut007]

Red bodied Lollipop Lifters

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I have made some more of these today with shorter stems and red bodies.
I used shorter stems on these for fishing in the shallows tight to the pads. More pics on the blog.

 

[Ray Roberts]

Red bodied Lollipop Lifters

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I have made some more of these today with shorter stems and red bodies.
I used shorter stems on these for fishing in the shallows tight to the pads. More pics on the blog.View attachment 22481View attachment 22483View attachment 22485

Very nice.

 

[purplepeanut007]

Small, Fat Tipped, Avons For The Shallows

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This weeks offerings are "Small, Fat Tipped, Avons" 11 centimeters long.
for fishing shallow runs.....very usefull with the weather we are having the last couple of years.....for more pics and full write up click on the blog link above.

 

[Ged28]

Small, Fat Tipped, Avons For The Shallows

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This weeks offerings are "Small, Fat Tipped, Avons" 11 centimeters long.
for fishing shallow runs.....very usefull with the weather we are having the last couple of years.....for more pics and full write up click on the blog link above.

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I like the look of them!
One thing you might want to try for fishing shallow with top and bottom floats is to make a domed top and drill a fine hole in the centre, and glue in a small loop of mono. Still use the normal float rubbers to hold it in place, but with the line coming off the top centrally makes them a lot less prone to tangles where the hook length whips round over the float.

 

[Peter Jacobs]

You really do make some lovely looking floats . . . . .

 

[purplepeanut007]

You really do make some lovely looking floats . . . . .

Many thanks Peter.....

 

[hague01]

You really do make some lovely looking floats . . . . .

the ones he made for me are quite beautiful, in fact far too good to spoil by use so I intend to make a display case for those and other varieties of the same principal, during the winter. Mind you, don't tell him but I have used all 3 as I could not resist it., ha!

 

[purplepeanut007]

Something for the weekend on the River Irwell Manchester.

 

[purplepeanut007]

Grayling Hunt - River Irwell

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After thirty minutes the rod was nearly ripped out of my hands as a massive trout hit my maggots......
Read the rest on the blog.

 

[The bad one]

Lovely jobs there.

 

[purplepeanut007]

Has everyone stopped making floats in the summer?
It seems like im the only one posting!

 

[flightliner]

Has everyone stopped making floats in the summer?
It seems like im the only one posting!

Here's my selection that I use from time to time, sorry they're a little mixed up.
Some I've made myself, others are mostly mass produced copies of what were often used by well known Trent anglers in years gone by.
In between there are some interesting triangular types made by a "thinking" Derbyshire angler. Some years ago I gave several to members of this forum to try for themselves.
Picture to follow.

 

[flightliner]

Sorry, the pik I wanted seems to have gone, maybe down to me and computers not getting along.
These delicate crowquill avons I made a few years ago,
Hope you like them!

 

[flightliner]

At the moment I'm looking at how to improve the old fluted floats, it's a work in progress at the moment as I never did think they were any better than what was around at the time they were introduced.I'm bandying around with a few ideas at the moment and feel confident of a successful outcome subject to a trial period.
Keep looking in!

 

[Mark Wintle]

At the moment I'm looking at how to improve the old fluted floats, it's a work in progress at the moment as I never did think they were any better than what was around at the time they were introduced.I'm bandying around with a few ideas at the moment and feel confident of a successful outcome subject to a trial period.
Keep looking in!

Living in that part of the country where Avon type floats reign supreme there's never been a practical case made for using fluted floats. Hold one back and they lay flat! They were a 60s fad and design failure. Topper Haskins got his Toppers to go through against an upsytream wind by using a big bulk that was in the main current 2ft off the bottome, not at the surface which was often stationary on the Bristol Avon in an upstreamer.

 

[peterjg]

This fishing lark is so full of differering opinions, many of which are not necessarily right or wrong. Mark Wintle is right in that if you hold a fluted float back hard it will tend to rise and can lay flat - especially a light fluted float. However; they do have some advantages: a correctly shotted fluted (or vaned) float is not pulled off course when mending the line - as Richard Walker said they grip the water. Also they are useful with centrepin reels in that they can help the spool to turn in lighter flows. I make mine from balsa and make four vanes from ice cream containers, use a Stanley knife and Araldite them in. Don't discount them, they do have their uses.

 

[purplepeanut007]

Antenne Wagglers-5BB

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Morning all,
I have managed to finish these wagglers this morning.
The lollipop style float is mine for a local lake I fish for tench and mixed species, the other eight floats are for someone else.

 

[Mark Wintle]

This fishing lark is so full of differering opinions, many of which are not necessarily right or wrong. Mark Wintle is right in that if you hold a fluted float back hard it will tend to rise and can lay flat - especially a light fluted float. However; they do have some advantages: a correctly shotted fluted (or vaned) float is not pulled off course when mending the line - as Richard Walker said they grip the water. Also they are useful with centrepin reels in that they can help the spool to turn in lighter flows. I make mine from balsa and make four vanes from ice cream containers, use a Stanley knife and Araldite them in. Don't discount them, they do have their uses.

If you're mending line fishing an Avon you need an awful lot more practice in fishing one! Richard Walker may have been one of the most influental anglers around but great float angler he wasn't and he was the first to admit it when he spent time with people like Billy Lane and Ivan Marks. If a light Avon without vanes won't make a 'pin turn then I'd suggest a stick float with an open-face fixed-spool reel a better solution.