What is a waggler?

[Guest NineteenthMonkey]

What advantages does a waggler have over a normal stick float?

[Guest GlennB]

It's attached at the bottom end only, so you can sink your line and avoid surface drift caused by the wind. It's mainly a still-water thing, but folks do use them on flowing water. Trouble there is that "holding back" a waggler on a river causes it to sink, so it's a fairly advanced technique ( for me anyway ).

[Guest Keith]

Originally posted by GlennB:

Trouble there is that "holding back" a waggler on a river causes it to sink, so it's a fairly advanced technique ( for me anyway ).

 

That's one of the answers regarding choice though; if you're going to need to hold back on a river, then generally you'd use a stick.

 

You can hold back to an extent with a waggler, but they're really much better at running through at the speed of the current.

 

Wind direction's the other factor: a stick is best with an upstream wind - it makes line control much more effective, as the wind helps push your line behind the float - but in a downstreamer most anglers can't control the line effectively - I know I can't - and it's very difficult to keep the line where you'd want it to be to manage a stick properly.

 

So you'd use a waggler instead.

 

A thick tipped (no insert) waggler is usually the thing for a river, because the buoyancy of the tip counteracts the float being dragged under by the bottom; and gives some holding back options.

 

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[This message has been edited by Keith (edited 01 July 2001).]