Hi All,
My missus, knowing that I like to make things, bought me a float fishing kit for Christmas from traditionalfishingfloats.co.uk . I made a couple up, and they have been great in use but very sensitive, so best suited to fishing for small fish. Here is a picture of two of them:
The fluorescent paint is a bit blobby, as I found that putting the yacht varnish over the bright paint darkened it considerably, so I ended up putting a second layer of the fluoro paint over the whole area again. The floats are pretty handy, but a little fragile.
Then, while I was down at the archery club the other weekend, I suddenly had an idea for more floats by re-using a waste product - broken carbon and carbon/alloy arrow shafts. The waste bin at the club hut seems to contain them quite often, and although I only shoot wooden shafts, I was glad to pick them up as they are very light and tough.
With the addition of some line eyes, some pieces of wood and/or biro pens, and yet more fluoro paint, I made a few floats :
Two of them use the plastic nocks they had when they were arrows as the indicator parts. On the second from bottom I included a piece of a broken float which included both the line eye and the counter weight which makes that float self-cocking to a degree.
Hopefully these should withstand even my efforts at casting into trees and wandering around on the bank.
Cheers, Bob
My missus, knowing that I like to make things, bought me a float fishing kit for Christmas from traditionalfishingfloats.co.uk . I made a couple up, and they have been great in use but very sensitive, so best suited to fishing for small fish. Here is a picture of two of them:
The fluorescent paint is a bit blobby, as I found that putting the yacht varnish over the bright paint darkened it considerably, so I ended up putting a second layer of the fluoro paint over the whole area again. The floats are pretty handy, but a little fragile.
Then, while I was down at the archery club the other weekend, I suddenly had an idea for more floats by re-using a waste product - broken carbon and carbon/alloy arrow shafts. The waste bin at the club hut seems to contain them quite often, and although I only shoot wooden shafts, I was glad to pick them up as they are very light and tough.
With the addition of some line eyes, some pieces of wood and/or biro pens, and yet more fluoro paint, I made a few floats :
Two of them use the plastic nocks they had when they were arrows as the indicator parts. On the second from bottom I included a piece of a broken float which included both the line eye and the counter weight which makes that float self-cocking to a degree.
Hopefully these should withstand even my efforts at casting into trees and wandering around on the bank.
Cheers, Bob
