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

Today saw me on another river session fishing a  little shallow river trying out my new " Irwell Stick Floats " once again. Donning my old leaky waders ( I must get some new ones soon ) I carefully.......lol....... waded down the river, without falling in this time. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Knowing the river a little better I was fishing within a minute and hooked into my first grayling within 5. She was a belting fish to nudging the 2lb mark at a guess.   After nursing back to full fitness, which did take a while. I had another trot down the same run and guess what !!!!!! the float buried again half way down and " Whollop " I was into another. 😁😁😁😁😁😁 I played her a littler harder than the last so she was fitter when returned. Not one of my better picture but she was a lovely lady a little bigger than the first. She looked cool on the release though. 😁 After the second fish the swim died but the run was FULL of fish taking n...

With my latest quartet of  " Baby Bobbers " I have tried to tone these down a little and make them a little more traditional.  I started well keeping to my ivory colour combination but fell down at the base stem whipping stage and just had to add a little bling . . . . . Lol. The silver metallic thread is slightly more subtle than my standard gold thread and really goes with this set.  Finished in ivory, black, silver, violet and various fluorescent clour tips.😁 The bobbers take approximately 3AAA and can be used for perch, grayling and jack pike using maggots, casters, small worms and live fry etc. I am very happy with the way these have turned out even if I went off plan slightly . Lol. 🤣 Until the next time. 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...

Well, I finally got around to my first ever session targeting grayling. I got to Jayzs around one ish and we decided to go in my car to save any messing Jayzs had minimal tackle. A small tip rod a bag and a chair. He was practising his upstream feeder fishing today to enable us to have a social fish together.  I was, of course, on the float. As we tackled up Jayzs threw down the gauntlet and crowed ........ " I'll bet you 5p that I catch a grayling before you set up Mike " Now I am a bit daft but not daft enough to take a bet from and angler of his calibre after a species I have never caught. " Not taking that bet pal. You must have watched me tackle up before " I laughed. As I finished setting up my rig Jayzs chuckled and said  . . . .  " You should have took the bet Mike. I haven't had a touch yet ". " That's a little concerning " !!!!!!! I laughed and proceeded to show him my new  ...