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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 I started making these around 2018 for stalking carp in the margins. Glow in the dark carp stalkers. . . . . . . . . . . More Perch Bobbers. . . . . . . The prial of perch/grayling Bobbers below are made from balsa with a hard wood stem, olive green and fluorescent orange paints, black and yellow threads plus a hand turned brass eye. 4 - 6 AAA depending on bait size . . . . . . . 4BB True Driftbeaters finished in slate grey with black/gold whippings plus a fluorescent pink sight bob. . . . . . . . . Olive Green, Staight Wagglers made for maggot and bread fishing on the lower River Ribble this summer. . . . . . . .  I am getting ready for the 16th already and still playing with avons. Here are two 3g in yellow which is a colour I do not use very ofte

Inserted Yellow 50:50 Wagglers.

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I have recently completed this prial of ...... Inserted Yellow 50:50 Wagglers. Made with Sarkanda and hardwood these are a very vesitle pattern used for many different angling situations. I personally like usinging these on rivers with maggots or castors on the drop in the Summer and Autum. 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/    ď  

Part II "Shouldered & Flared 4g Stcks For Long Trotting"

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 Hi all, I kindly received an update on this set of floats just over a week after their completion. As stated on the previous post https://purplepeanut007.blogspot.com/2023/10/sholdered-flared-4g-stcks-for-long.html "I was recently asked to make a set of 20 no 4 (4g) Shouldered Alloy Stick Floats for a trip on the River Itchen in the coming weeks. The floats are to be used for long trotting fishing six feet plus on some runs. Because of the distance these floats will be fished at I have kept the tips as wide as I possible could, flaring the taper out just before the shoulder, initially giving a wider tip before turning the shoulder/tip". These floats were made for grayling long trotting in swims from 4 to eight feet deep, The results speak for themselves . . . . . Pictures from the first session.   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

Perch Bobbers - Old School & Sliding

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 Morning all, I have gone a little out of my comfort zone with this pair of....... "Perch Bobbers - Old School & Sliding" New paint and a new pattern were the order of the day for these two builds. Ths old school float is made of hard wood and balsa with black and gold threads. The slider is aso balsa with a hollow tube fitted down the center of the float to enable it to slide up an down to use a greater depth. I think I will run out of time this season for a river perch but we always have the still waters to play with !!!!! When my old man saw these two floats he said " I remember that float pattern.  I used to fish on Soapy Toms near Fredrick Road Canal in Salford and catch perch as a kid, I was about 10, that would be in the early fiftys and a perch bobber was the first float I bought you to". What a great little story !!! TTFN.      Peanut. Please subscribe if you would like regular updates of my adventures with the floats I make.  If you would like to look

Adjustable, Self Cocking Loaded, Bodied, Wagglers. Six & four Gram.

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 Moring all, Im getting ready for the tench season already !!!! I have just completed some more Six Gram Adjustable, Self Cocking Loaded, Bodied, Wagglers one with a sight tip, one without. The two floats below are based on balsa with a slate grey body, black and white lift segments and a fluorescent orange tip. Threads used on this build were black, grey and gold I have more of these on the go at the moment and some lighter versions as well. 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/   

Fluted, Inverted Teardrop, Alloy Stem Avons.

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 Morning all, I have just finished two new floats. "Inverted Teardrop, Alloy Stem Avons" Taking approximately 3 no 4s (0.6 g) for light river work. I have made these mainly for my own interest as I have never seen this combination before and thought it may suit the way I fish when after silvers using a closed face reel in blustery conditions, hopfully, stopping/reducing the need for back shotting and enabling tighter control of the the line/float.....we shall see!!!! Raw materials used were balsa and alloy for the stem with charcoal, white and fluorescent orange paints, finished with black whippings. Below are a couole of comparison picture showing the size of the smaller, wire stem floats to the larger wooden stem floats. TTF PS: I managed to finish another one this morning.  😊      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://purp

Goose Quill & Crow Quill Tipped Fluted Avones With Hardwood Stems.

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Morning all, Below are some experimental floats. (For me anyway) I do not have much experience of using quills for floats. The only ones I have made before are porcupine quills. So I was quite pleased to see the pair below to completion. I have made one of each for now. A Goose Quill & Crow Quill Tipped Fluted Avons With Hardwood Stems.  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/