Purplepeanut007 PP007 FLOAT MAKING & FISHING ADVENTURES - THE RIVER IRWELL AND BEYOND.

 Morning all, Finished today are a pair of.... "Old School Perch Bobbers" The pair below are finished in pastle yellow and fluorescent red/pink paints, plus black thread with a hand turned, large brass eye a simple design but quite affective I think. I will probabley try varoius standard and sliding perch bobbers to as the venues I will be using them on can be twenty feet deep or more!!!! Video: There are many older float patters I would like to try so stay tuned. Later in the year I should have something a little different/out of my comfort zone to show you. 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://sa...

 Morning all, Another float I dont use enough. The humble perch bobber. I think I am missing out on some specimen perch and chub when fish for silvers in the summer so I am going to use one of these on a sleeper rod while I build up the silver swim. I know the exact couple of pegs I am going to try them on. One is 9 foot deep at your feet so will fish approximately half depth with a small live bait. The other swim is an eddy around 5 foot deep an I take the same approach fishing at half depth. Hopefully I will have somthing to show you all later.on in the year. The prial of floats 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. John Monaghan tried one of these recently and produced a cracking fish of 2lb 14oz. Nice one John. 👍👍👍👍   All three floats take approximately 4 - 6 AAA depending on bait size. I am looking forward to some fish and float pictures with these floats as it...

 Morning all , The day had come to christen our new prototype Mini Driftbeaters. With Salford Pete in tow we arrived at a local venue and set up ready for a days float fishing. I marched off in front to secure our pegs while Salford Pete seemed to take an age to arrive. He was talking and walking slowly to some other bloke I did not recognise. It was only when he got closer did I recognise my old mate  "The Castertman" He popped down to see another mate of his who was also fishing. We had a chat for five minutes then Casterman skipped off stating he would be back when we had both set up and started fishing. Ten minutes later me and the oldman were ready for the all in. I was fishing off the bottom initially to see if I could catch some of the good quality silvers which were present in the lake. The driftbeater was set up with three segments showing plus the sight bob with just one number eight dropshot ten centimeters from the hook. "The Casterman" arrived just as I...

 Morning All, These floats have been on my to do list for years but I have never found the time to make them until now. I finally sourced the parts I need and produced the protype a couple of weeks ago. The set below are finished in slate grey with black/gold whippings plus a fluorescent pink sight bob. Coming in at 4BB.....ish these are made for close to medium range fishing using a variety of baits  Salford Pete has one, I have the prototype and I am currently finishing a larger one around 3AAA for myself. I do have plans to make some more larger versions of these floats in the near future, probably 3 & 5AAA Anyway, enough of my rammblings..... Here are the new floats...... 😊 Sound up😊 On the first trial the tench didn't make an appearance but look what did!!!! I must have had about half a dozen of these lovelies either on the drop or using the lift method.  😁 We both caught something else note worthy but I will report that next week. I will be posting a video to...

Mornig all, I have been struggling for time recently but have finishished these...... Blue 50:50 Avons, Fat Tipped, with a Wooden Stem for a while now and are destined for action on the the River Rhine in Holland. They were finished as follows:  Balsa bodies with a hardwood stems. Stained to a dark oak finish, with black and yellow whippings and brass eyes. The weight range is from 8g to 3g  I must confess the 8g pair are for me for fishing meat on the Derwent this summer. 😁 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/