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

 Morning all, I have finished four new floats for the new river season. The larger pair of 8g Irwell Stick Floats will be primerily used in conjuction with meat & paste on the faster shallow runs of the River Ribble bulk shotted for chub and barbel. The smaller 3.5g pair will be used for maggot and casters in some pacey runs for the roach and dace. All four floats were finished in balsa with hardwood stems, paints used were white, charcoal grey and the relative fluorescent paints, orange, red/pink. Threads used were black and pale blue. I and others have had a lot of success in the past with this style of float and are a staple for my own river float box. Dave Rileys Double from last autum. Dave, enjoy the larger ones. I will take them with me ready for the next time we meet up pal. 😊 Tight lines everyone. TTFN   Peanut.   If you would like to look at my handcrafted floats click on the link below.      https://purplepeanut007.blogspot.com/2017/01/...

 Morning everyone, I am back making some more heavy river floats. All are made from balsa in the new chocolate brown, 6 x 10g (6 Swan +) Avons with Alloy Stems, a 1x7g Heavy Fluted Avon with an alloy stem and finally a 1x4g (5AAA) Crow Quil Avon, a first for me belive it or not !!! Paints used were white, fluorescent red/orange and chocolate brown. Theads used were red, black, purple and Blush gold. Mainly for the rivers  Trent and Wye this year. The Futted and Crow Quil Avons with get a little more use, especially the Crow Quill Avon as it is of a weight to be used more regularly on most of the rivers I fish. Until the next time………. TTFN Peanut. If you would like to look at all of the hand crafted floats I make please click on the link below and it will take you to my float page. http://purplepeanut007.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/hand-crafted-floats-float-making-by.html?m=1 Is free to join !!!!! Join Salford Friendly Anglers for free and help us fight pollution. http://salfor...

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...