Stained, Stepped Stick Floats for the New Pin

 Hi all,

After looking in my float boxes I discovered a distinct lack of stick floats.

(No surprise there hey lads.....lol)

So a quick session on the lathe and I had a few bodies in hand for decoration.

The first pair are heavy, made for shallow....ish fast runs and bigger baits, worm, bread, pellet etc. 

Balsa was chosen for the body and alloy for the stem. I find the alloy stems gives me the best balance in the faster water.

The bodies are stained chestnut brown, threads used where:

Black

Gold 

Burgundy

&

Grey

 

I have made similar models to these before but longer in stem and body.

In my huge collection of unfinished floats I did find a small unfinished body for a really shallow water stick.....a grayling float to be honest so.......I finished that one in metallic pearlescent blue, threads for this one where:

Black

Gold

& 

Red

These smaller versions taking 5 No 4's and are just the job for really shallow runs for grayling, chub and barbel using small baits such as maggots, casters, smaller pieces of bread and small pellet.

Not my best float pic so here is one I prepared earlier....lol

A standard and stepped version.

I must admit this has become my favourite way of fishing, thigh deep in the river searching out new runs and pools, small stream rod and a pin....its bliss.....you really should try it !!!!!

Hopefully I should be using these floats this weekend with the new pin so new pictures to follow later.

😁

TTFN

  Peanut. 

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