Black tip floats

[Patch]

hi there all i would like to know why there is black tip floats on the market is it so you can paint them yourself ??? thanks

[SpenBeck]

hi there all i would like to know why there is black tip floats on the market is it so you can paint them yourself ??? thanks

 

Hi Patch, (no joke itended), You can buy black tipped floats, but there's no need. What I do is use a black permanent marker to black out the top half of an orange tipped float. This way you can shot your float to the black tip when theres glare on the water and take off a shot for the orange to show when the light conditions suit orange. Black topped floats work great when trotting on wide rivers. I get alot of anglers asking about black topped floats when I'm using one. They've thought about using them but never thought it would be better than orange, until they watch mine.

regards, SpenBeck

 

P.S. I never use yellow or red topped floats. I can concentrate better on orange or black!

[ayjay]

The colour choice of a float tip is partly a personal thing and partly they should be suited to the light conditions, being somewhat colour blind myself (in tests anyway) I find yellow much easier to see than red.

 

Black float tips, surprisingly, are often best seen at dusk, some float systems allow for one tip to be substituted for another of a different colour, you can achieve the same effect for yourself by slipping a piece of silicone (whatever colour you like) over the tip of whichever float you are using.

[Patch]

thanks for that

[Andy Macfarlane]

I carry a dry-wipe marker in my tackle box. Suprisingly, the ink fairs pretty well as long as you don't actually touch it and even then, it only takes 2 tics to re-apply some more. When the light changes or you want the float for another session, you just wipe it off.