Making a fishing float.

[Andy B]

Hello,

I was messing around with pheasant berry stalks today and decided to make a fishing float.

1. Take a stalk and trim it down leaving one sealed air chamber intact.
2. Clean one end for better visual in water and put some holes in other end for line. DO NOT peice central airtight chamber!!
3. Put a flower in the top for better visual (you dont have too)
4. Tie to line and fish.

[video=youtube;FaNL_y79CdY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaNL_y79CdY[/video]

 

[Scots_Charles_River]

Cool idea.

 

[dwardo]

I saw that stuff in my local wood and wondered what it was. Good idea.

 

[stuart f]

Hi Andy,nice one mate,i never thought about using hollow stems for floats.
Everyday is a learning day.

Cheers Stuart.

 

[g4ghb]

cool - is there a weight at the bottom as I would have expected the 'twig' to have floated flat on the top of the water rather than vertically...

 

[Survivalmike]

WOW - great idea mate!
Is that a small stone on the 6th picture? that you put in the end of the hollowed part?
I think I´ll give it a try and make one or more of these myself soon

cheers and thx
Mike

 

[Bushwhacker]

Good use of the materials to hand.
I used to make them from bird quills and wine corks when I was a boy and had no money to spend in the tackle shop. Happy days.

 

[Loenja]

great idea, i always wondered what to do with those hollowstemmed plants.

 

[bikebum1975]

Slick idea.