Why float fish?

[Clayton]

yep the quiver is defienately my favoured choice.... i think its a better feeling wen u see ur quiver banging the whole way round..... but underwater snags can be a bit of a problem wen legering. CAGE FEEDER STYLE

[John S]

Newt:

A question for you float gurus - do you ever use a float for suspending a bait mid-water?

Absolutely. At one of my regular venues I'll be float fishing 4-5 feet deep maximum (coming up to about 18 inches to 2 foot if that's where the fish are), at a point where the water is about 20 feet deep. I always use a crystal waggler, usually with the shot around the base of the float to catch 'on the drop', only moving one nearer the hook if I'm getting a lot of small silvers. Legering is all well and good, but it's only one more tool at our disposal.

 

Tight lines

[nick_gilbert]

Newt:

A question for you float gurus - do you ever use a float for suspending a bait mid-water?

I sometimes fish as shallow as 6 inches when catching roach, Quite often you will find the biggest fish here

[Andy Macfarlane]

I would generally say I fish high in the water with floats. It's only when tackling annoying species like Roach, do I find myself sliding floats up and down in search of the perfect depth..blah de blah.

Today, I was float fishing for perch with about a 2 foot hooklength and most of the fish were taken on twitched lobs.

BTW....Andy_1984 caught a 2lb perch (A PB) today along with another shedload of fish. He's a flippin' expert already.

I did alright too. I caught a few fish just shy of the magical 2lb figure on homemade spinners but the biggie for me came close to the end on a twitched lob. It went just over the 2lb mark.

I dunno how many we caught today, so don't ask but the whole point of all this is that float fishing is the shiznit in certain conditions and for us today, it was THE killer method.

[geffaz]

even when ive two out on alarms i need to be looking at the tip of a waggler! watching it bump and lift with all the roach and rudd in a frienzy! and the watching it just sail away!

or sail into nothing making u miss strike!

just keeps u switched on and on ya toes!

ill even yous a float when its prctical sea fishing!

cant beat it!

[Pangolin]

I don't know if I'm the only one who finds it comforting to know exactly where my bait is, while fishing. Once the ripples have subsided, the exact location of a legered bait is difficult to remember... is it right where those tench bubbles are coming up, or should I move it?

Most of my floatfishing bites come 'on the drop', so I effectively get around half a dozen 'drops' per cast when floatfishing, simply by pulling the float in a bit, then letting the bait sink again. Legering can't let you use the wind or surface drift to carry your float into places where the fish are, but where it would be impossible to cast to, such as overhanging trees.

 

[ 30. September 2005, 11:17 PM: Message edited by: Pangolin ]

[geffaz]

good point! untagling ya 3lb line from an over hanging tree always brakes up the monotany ;-]

[Ian FG]

Newt:

A question for you float gurus - do you ever use a float for suspending a bait mid-water?

Floats are generally used two ways, the first way is to suspend the bait off the bottom, this is generally used for fish that feed at varied depths such as roach, dace, rudd, chub, perch etc. although sometimes the bait is just tripping bottom and can be held back to make the bait rise in the water. A common method on rivers.

The second way, the float is used as a bite indicator with the bait hard on the bottom this method is generally used for bottom feeders like tench, bream, carp etc. A common method on lakes.

[Mr Nice]

Peter Waller:

 

There is no finer bite indicator on still water, for whatever species, surely?

Spot on! Will detect a bite/take before any electronic gadget 99/100!

[geffaz]

hmmmmmmm floats ar great! dont brake the spell IAN FG!

and a CAST spell is wot it is for me! i started with a float and ill finish with one i luv it!

and the whole float thing screams real fishing to me!

nerve raking and hart braking!

sole destroying and hero making!

when that float gose under! in my chest i feel the sound of thunder! and lightning in my head!

 

sorry got carried away then, luv float fishing

lol! can ya tell?