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HANDCRAFTED FLOATS & FISHING EQUIPMENT 2021-2024

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Welcome to my current live float page. 2021 - Present. Feel free look and comment on anything you see. Here is a link to my previous float page 2017 - 2021 https://purplepeanut007.blogspot.com/2017/01/handcrafted-floats-and-fishing.html?m=1 Below, is a 7AAA Oval Fluted Avon for barbel and chub fishing made with a balsa body and a hardwood stem . . . . . . . . . . 4g, Shouldered Alloy Stick Floats for a trip on . . . . . . . . . .  A quartet of Classic 3AAA Drift Beaters in Royal Blue. . . . . . . . . . . . . Also in olive greean are these.....  3AAA Antenna Bodied Wagglers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . A quartet of Two Tone Inseted Wagglers in olive green. . . . . . . . . . .  11g Barbel Stick and its little brother, a 5g Irwell Stick. . . . . . . . . . . . Various loaded & unloaded sticks and avons. . . . . . . . . .    Inverted Porqupine Quills. . . . . . . . . . . . Mini Irwell Sticks. . . . . . . . . . . . Classice Drift Beaters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  I started making these
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Adjustable 6g Sight Bob Wagglers in Blue

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 Morning all. I have made some more of these  "Adjustable 6g Sight Bob Wagglers" but with a blue body and sight bob. The six floats below are based on balsa with a blue body, black and white lift segments and various tip colours. The only threads used on this build were black and gold. 0 TTFN.      Peanut. Please subscribe if you would like regular updates of my adventures with the floats I make.  If you would like to look at my handcrafted floats click on the link below.      https://purplepeanut007.blogspot.com/2021/02/handcrafted-floats-fishing-equipment.html?m=1     Join our club......Salford Friendly Anglers...........Its FREE   !!!!!!!  http://salfordfriendlyanglers.co.uk/join/   
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River Wye Day 2 - 01.07.2024

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Morning all. Both John and I where off to a new stretch of the river today. Our chosen destination was the Wye Lee stretch of the River Wye near the bridge pillers. We arrived to find ourselves the first people there so had the pick of the pegs. John already new where he was gonna fish as did I due to short recce the night before. John was in the the first peg next to the pillers. A bit of a boilly, washing machine peg due to all the sub-surface obstructions. It looked very "Barbely" but he may well loose some end tackle. A bonus John had was we had witnessed a barbel capture from there the night previous so at least we new the were in the vacinity. It had been very warm the past week. I had my suspicions the barbel may still be spawning, or at least cleaning off in the fast water. My choice of run was a double croy. A croy is something like a jetty of rocks, man made, in this case, heading out into the river to about 40 feet. A double croy has the same jetty of rocks mirrore
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The Rive Wye Day one 30.06.24

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Morning all, I have not been up to much this last month due to illness but thankfully I was ok to travel when it came to a River Wye trip organised at the begining of the year.  Ross-On-Wye in Herefordshire was our destination for three nights, fishing stick & pin for chub and barbel with a pal of mine John Derbyshire. DAY 1. Travelling in Johns van the trip down to Herefordshire was smooth & went by the numbers. We arived around 11.30, checked in our digs, gabbed a bacon butty and went to reccy the nearest stretch of river. The river was spot on carrying a little colour, with a lovely large gravel bed, perfect for trotting. Tackle wise I opted for a 14ft Harrison SU. a Bob James pin & 6lb line. Bait wise we feed pellet, meat and fished meat on a size 6 hook. Float wise I chose a Heavy Wooden Stem Irwell Stick due to the fact that the river is shallow, approximatly 3ft and pushing through a bit. The large dome on the float also gives you flexibility of bait size when using
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Canal Fishing With The Castermen

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 Hi all, I have just spent a wonderful afternoon with Derek Kenyon A.K.A.  "The Casterman" I was a little late to our meet and managed to miss most of the peg clearing Derek had carried out......Sorry pal 😆 But i did move a lot of the debris so we could fish which made me feel.a.little less guilty. I promise to be on time in the future m8. 🙄 We both started of on Loaded Antennae Wagglers fishing the count down method using no 4 droppers but after two hours with various shot pattern changes we had one chewed maggot between us to show for it. Derek made the descision to move while I carried on in the original swim. After 30 mins in his new swim Derek let me know he has found the fish and that I should move up steam so we fish together. By the time I set up Derek had caught 6 beautifully conditioned roach. I decided to opt for a new float one made in 2022, in green & one I made this year, stained but have not had the time to test either if them before today. A carbon Stem,
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