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

I was given a old Middy float box quite a few years ago off  "The Casterman" and have finally got round to kitting it out today. After some cleaning and sanding of the original box it was re-felted and re-sponged to fit some of my Avons, Fluted Avons, Mini-Irwell Sticks & Perch Bobbers. Quiye pleased. 😁 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 Join Salford Friendly Anglers for free and help us fight pollution. http://salfordfriendlyanglers.co.uk/join/

 This weeks offerings are a pair of . . . . "Stained Slate Grey Avon's With Alloy Stems" with fat tips. Made for running water these floats are great when using baits such as maggots, pellets casters, bread and worm, The floats weight capacity is 6.4g (8 AAA) and 4.0g (5AAA) respectively. Threads used for this build are black and gold. Paints used are white fluorescent orange and slate grey. 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/   

Morning all, Another quartetet of floats finished this morning, this time 5AAA+ Avons with solid hardwood tips & stems. Finished with charcoal & slate grey paint on the bodies, white and fluorescent & orange tips. Threads used were black and gold. I made my first set of these in April this year. https://purplepeanut007.blogspot.com/2024/04/5aaa-plus-charcoal-slate-avons.html . An all round river float, one I like to use when the river is carrying a little extra water, or, in those faster swims using smaller baits like maggots and casters 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/   

 Morning all, I have just completed a very special quartet of carp stalkers for a certain someone. These floats are painted with crimson, sky blue and white paint with fluorescent orange tips. Black and rose gold threads finish this set. I hope this set of floats reminds you of the good times spent fishing and laughing together. All the best, Mike. 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/   

Morning all. Waking up this morning feeling every bone in my body aching form the last couple of days I decided not to fish but to help John get a barbel on the float. It had proved more difficult than we both anticipated but having some success the day before we were feeling quietly confident of a hook up. For this session we were back to the Wye Lea stretch, fishing from a croy as I did the previous day. The chosen run was further down stream with a lttle more even flow, much easier to run a float through that the previous one the day before. I borrowed John my set up and he was fishing withing 10 minutes. John balled in some ground bait and steadily feed pellt with meat on a size 6 hook as bait. After another 10 minutes Johns float thumped under at the end of the trot. The Harrison SU doubled over in protest. I thought we had cracked it straight way. After a few more minutes John shook his head and said " Nar. it's a chub mike, a good one, but a chub. I did the honours and

 Morning all. I have made some more of these  "Adjustable 6g Sight Bob Wagglers" but with a blue body and sight bob. The six floats below are based on balsa with a blue body, black and white lift segments and various tip colours. The only threads used on this build were black and gold. 0 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/   

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