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

 Afternoon all, Due to a wash out today there will be no fishing for me......but evey cloud has a silver lining as it enabled me to finish the two wagglers below. These are a slight variation on the  "Bodied Antennae Wagglers" I have previously made. There is no change in the build. 5AAA balsa, hardwood, brass eyes and fluorescent paints, slate grey bodied plus various thread colours. The difference between the two floats is the segment pattern near the tip of the float. I have seen first hand how the roach feed/ bite, at distance, on the slow flowing, deep river these floats were designed for and belive the changes suggested will improve performance. After a discussion with a fellow silver fish angler and friend we dicided to split the white and fluorescent yellow segments with another black band of thread, effectively splitting the latter to segments in half, hopefully to enable improved bite detection from the shy biting roach. Any way, enough bable....here are a pair of t...

 Hi all, My Old Man AKA  "Salford Pete" has recently proffessed an interest in fishing some local Yorkshire pools. Last week we disgussed which two float patterns would be best for his style of fishing. One Sunday evening after many post meal brandies we chame up with the following float pattern. The first pattern is a small bodied,antennae, waggler which will be used for his silver fishing at short to medium range at a depth of approximately 4.5 feet.   For the antenee pattern we decide on a balsa body, a hard wood stem, a brass eye, a fluorescent red/pink sight tip, and black and violet whippings.  My dad requested the floats body colour in "Hunter Green"...... I also had the same. 😊     This will be used a a general maggot, caster,punch and small pellet float by me and my dad when we eventually get out to fish together. Hopefully a few fish pictures will folow later on this month. The second pattern for margin fishing is still to be decided......it is a...