Simple Match Fishing Forum

We all have our favourite floats and now with with hand crafted varieties filling the market where does this leave the traditional shop brought floats i remember years ago Wil Raisin telling a group of lads get the right pattern and stick with it .I've done just that for many years and feel i'm in touch with the patterns i use, i look pick and use the JEAN FRANCOIS on most venues i fish its a hard float to shot up yet you can read the slightest of touches which immediately register on the fibre tips. Over the years the diameter of the wire has changed and now the new tips are very visible its been around for years with the rugby ball body being is classic style and most floats marketed around this design








i wondered whats your favour floats why are most carp floats Diamond shaped ,Pencil floats gimmick or not it will be interesting to here your thoughts on floats .
do you buy your floats in ones or by the dozen






This my preparation ready for the winter league series on the river soar from bleak to chopped worm plus a few flat floats

if we said best float for
A canals
B rivers
C lakes
D commercials
now i know your think well there are pellet floats margin floats for commercials just pick the one you will pick up first perhaps its the tatyest float ever but its the one that catches you fish      

 

Can only say my favourites for canals:

Image Brio
Image Apollo
Mick Bassett London Squatt
Dufil Aire
Drennan Wire
Drennan Seed

You can probably only get the London Squatt these days - all the others are ancient. I make my own these days, which are similar, but not identical to several of the list above. That said, I always have a few Brios and Apollos made up and use them all the time...

Sensas Henri,s

Sensas Jean Francios

Dufil Ablets

Tubertini Stix

Trabucco Ultimate 1s

Comic Jollys

I like the ones Bert Simmell makes plus Drennan Roach and Pinkie.....

For squatt bread and hemp fishing i use them sean ashby pencil floats you can dot them right down i have used them now for about two years and they are still in good nick i also use them preston pt20 i think they are called

Canal: Garbo DS14H (Bread) and Mick Bassett OTD
River: Drennan Carbo and Caralusso Torpedo
Commercial: MW taper tip Diamond, MW pinger

Don't fish natural lakes often though, there are not many around me. :(

Canal: Fox MP6 the wire one; Tubertini Stix.
River: Dont fish many nowadays but Drennan Tipo or the like or good old fashioned home made sticks when I can.
Lake: Colmic Jolleys or a similatr Fox pattern for short lining; A Trabucco model for whip.
Commercial: crappity smack off

Canal .... The original image "light bulb" with balsa or plastic tips
Lakes .... Only go on lakes top fish the tip for bream
Commercials .... Don't swear in polite company please
river .... Home made peacock dibbers for the whip on shallow rivers
Otherwise I'm more of a peacock waggler and wire stem stick kind of guy :-)

Canal. Latimer squatt for bread/squatt fishing. Latimer Stainy for choppy etc. Latimer caster for shell fishing.
Natural Lakes. Preston Inter 1 and 4 mainly
Rivers. Pole = Tipos. Rods = Down to my last few John Dean sticks. Drennan peacock wags. Call me old fashioned
Commercials. Any old float lying around that I don't mind smashing up!!

i'm suprised no one has mentioned the Preston chianti i have a fair few of these set up for hemp fishing again they have changed a little over the years not so long as they used to be

Preston chianti

Sh!t them mate , they take in water and poorly made imho.

not had that trouble dodge I've had the odd eye pull out

Drennan onions.. dogs doodahs for slider fishing for roach!
Cant get em anymore an i bust one on the weaver on wed
Drennan tipo's for baggin on venues like reservoirs where the light can change a lot as these floats come with 3 interchangeable tip colours.. brill on slow flowing rivers too.
Senas henri's for positive squatt/B/joker.
Duffil's for delicate squatt/B/joker fishing.
Any pellet fishing preston chianti's are the biz only trouble is the strength of em,therefore i have handmade versions made for me now by 'Skimmerz' off this site which are awesome.

Never had a problem with Chanti, had one eye pull but never had one take on water? Every box round here is full of them and very highly rated for many venues this way on. The original colour and make of float were the best ( still have a dozen or so that must be 15yr old ) but as Joff said the did change when they went purple and black, for some reason they just wasn't quite the same but still a good float IMO

mine has to be the duck MR CUP loves the duck

mine has to be the duck MR CUP loves the duck 

Shove your crappity smack duck

mine has to be the duck MR CUP loves the duck 

Even Mr Nudd was taking the yellow stream in Ireland after moorie told him the tale

get this weeks anglers mail u get a mention on there too

get this weeks anglers mail u get a mention on there too 

Nob head

not had that trouble dodge I've had the odd eye pull out

the only eyes you pull out are those pairs of eyes you catch on the Loughborough canal lol te hee