Go into a modern tackle emporium and you actually have to determinedly hunt out the float section amongst batteries of carp rods, the village of erected bivvies and the food mountain of boilies. When you do find floats, if you do, there will be a pallid stock of mass produced plastic efforts, gradually gathering dust. […]
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The Lost Art Of The Float – Part 3 – The Stillwater Waggler
11
Jan
Jan
Can I make it clear that I only write what I know about so you won’t get any advice from me about using a waggler on rivers, for example. Whilst I have had excellent advice on how to do it, notably from Bob Roberts I remember, this is not an approach where I would be […]
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Conjuring Up Coarse Magic. Float Fishing – Trotting
04
Jan
Jan
I have been lamenting that the float in general coarse angling is nearly an extinct animal but not necessarily so. This week it is trotting under the microscope and the art is absolutely alive and well down on the Test, at Broadlands, if a trip there a couple of winters back is representative. That winter’s […]
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CONJURING COARSE MAGIC – BARBEL PART 3 – FLOAT FISHING
09
Dec
Dec
There’s no doubt that to the purist, float fishing is the preferred way to catch these superb fish and indeed the method is effective, challenging and always glamorous. Back a while, I travelled to the Trent with float maker maestro Andy Field and there we caught extraordinary numbers of barbel on 5BB floats and maggot, […]