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

Hi all, Recently I made two sets of floats for Dave Riley.  Three Avons, three Barbel Sticks and a new Standard Maggot/Caster Stick  Arrangements were made for a day out trotting so we met up with for a few hours chasing Ladies on my local river. This was Daves first time targeting grayling and had never caught a one by design and never on the float. Armed with his new floats & Youngs B.J.Pin we spent a pleasent few hours in the brilliant sunshine trotting some new new sticks. Unfortunately the day started badly with me snapping six inches off my Acolyte Plus. I tightend the line to slide my float up the line and the tip parted and slid down to my float......I am very careful with all my rods so I will be contacting Drennan to see why this has happened!!!!!!! Anyway, back to fishing. It is the first time Dave and I have fished together so, after a terrible start we started to fish. The first pool was a big let down, both of us leaving biteless, the second pool just as bad!!!!! I wa

Hi all, I haven't been fishing since the last time I ventured out with Adam Mack but managed an aftetnoon yesterday on a couple of intimate streams most anglers would walk past. After some previous assistance from Adam I gifted him with one of my 5 no 4  Irwell Sick Floats below..... I'm not to happy as he used it better than I did on this outing.....🤬......lol. Not the best days fishing as Adam would admit.....but caught a few and as always a good laugh in his company. The plus side with going with Adam is its always a work out for me. He pushes me the go scrambling up and down swims a mountain goat would think twice about. 😆😆😆😆😆😆 Looking for ward to the next one Adam. Always a pleasure my friend. .............  Adam Mack putting an Irwell Stick to work on an intimate stream we fished yesterday Irwell Stick Floats. Prime Irwell Stick  territory. No lumps for me on this occasion but Adam had a couple just to show me what these stream can produce. TTFN   Peanut.   If you

As you all know  I LOVE  ❤ my stick float fishing, especially on the pin so I have made a few more for silver fishing up to approximately seven foot deep. One in metallic , pearlescent blue &  one in metallic green. Both of these have jay feather inlays plus black, gold and scarlet whippings. I have not used these to yet but have caught a few nice chub on the prototype last month. 😉 The chub where caught on the  River Severn,  Hampton Loade. Stick and pin. I have a river in mined where I want to try these out, those in the inner circle will know exactly where I will be roach fishing with these beauties...lol. TTFN   Peanut.   If you would like to look at my handcrafted  click on the link below.      https://purplepeanut007.blogspot.com/2017/01/handcrafted-floats-and-fishing.html?m=1        Join our club......Its FREE  !!!!!!!  http://salfordfriendlyanglers.co.uk/join/   

Another upgrade to my shallow fast water trotters. The Shouldered Irwell Sticks are wider for more turbulent water than the MKIIs, have a bigger body and have a large step in them to stop any movement of the rubbers. This pair have been finished in a favourite metallic blue paint that I like with a feather plus red, gold, blue and black threads. This float really is my cup if tea and I am gagging to use a few !!!!!! Just have to wait until the 16th..... DAM IT !!!!! LOL.. 🤣 I can see me making a few of these for the coming season not to mention the Bridgenorth trip with my dad. 😁 TTFN         Peanut.      If you would like to look at my handcrafted  click on the link below.      https://purplepeanut007.blogspot.com/2017/01/handcrafted-floats-and-fishing.html?m=1        Join our club......Its FREE  !!!!!!!     http://salfordfriendlyanglers.co.uk/join/              

The first  " Irwell Stick MK2's " Were tiny taking 2 & 3 no4's This pair are more of a standard size taking 8 and 6 no4's respectively.  I use this size for most of my shallow water trotting on the Irwell and other northern  spate rivers. With fluorescent orange and red/pink tips, black, Jade, violet and gold whippings this pair of trotters will be perfect for maggot, casters and bread fishing in the shallows this winter. I have another one in red/pink for a good friend of mine Derek Kenyon AKA " Casterman " taking 5 no 4's as requested mate. 😉 All my stick floats are getting a make over this winter do stay tuned for new colours and patterns. TTFN Peanut. If you would like to look at my handcrafted floats just hit the link. http://purplepeanut007.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/handcrafted-floats-2017.html?m=1 Join our club......Its FREE !!!!!!!

To day was the day that myself and Salford Pete were heading off over to the wrong side of the hills, up the M67 and over to Yorkshire. Our target for the day were  Yorkshire Ladies . . . .  Ladies if the stream that is . . . . .  Otherwise known as. . . . . GRAYLING !!!!!!!! Being born and bred Mancunians grayling are a foreign species to us and, unfortunately neither of us have bagged one on our travels.  ( Well. . . . . I have had one from Lymm Vale but I don't count still water grayling ) We were meeting a friend of mine and a new member of my float making group on face book, Jordan O'Halloran, a local Yorkshire lad with bags of knowledge regarding ladies. 😉😉😉😉😉😉 ( Dont tell the Mrs.... 🤣 ) We met around 08.00 on the River Don. Unfortunately, the river was high, coloured and pushing through at a fair old rate of knots. Not the best grayling conditions but this trip was planned months ago so we all decided to give it a go. Jordan kn