Floats Explained

Selecting a float first depends on your approach. First it might be your personal choice; the one you like to see in the water. For you it may depend on water conditions, target species, and your own fishing style. Here we are talking about day fishing.

Key types include wagglers for lakes/rivers, Avon for faster water, sliders for deep water. For most anglers, with a dedicated way of fishing, three float styles are enough for their regular haunts; so those and a few variants will do the job. 'One gets what one pays for.'

Let's look for a style.

Anglers tend to see a decent float as a go to so that is what we will discus here.

Margin Fishing would ask for a waggler -a diamond a rugby ball or a light weight bodied waggler to hold the bait against the under tow.

Off the end of the rod calls for the same floats, here again, depending on your knowledge of the swim or target fish. A bodied waggler will catch a roach as well as the carp your encounter.

Following a Float Maker.

Like most float makers we at Hand Crafted Floats follow the tradition of basic designs then expand into our own designs that cover all other options.

Here at Hand Crafted Floats, we use our experience and, of course, that of others to make floats to cover options of Lake and River fishing; never forgetting we are dedicated anglers who have a few crazy ideas in our floats tray we use ourselves. And appreciate being asked to 'concoct' a float from customer ideas. Something we do free of charge however long it takes.

"Everyone is an eccentric until it works."