Making your own floats

Oneabung · #1 (**permalink**) 16th January 2007, 02:20 PM

Anybody on here make their own floats?

I have made my own pellet wagglers but wouldnt want to be making them on a commercial basis as they would need to be selling at £7 a float to make it worthwile as they take me ages to make!

Anybody feels like flogging their floats through the site then please feel free - I'm quite happy to put up a page featuring them on the main site for anyone who is interested.

weldec · #2 (**permalink**) 16th January 2007, 04:33 PM

Just bought 17 Maver dibber floats of Ebay £16.00 sod making them.

Me mate makes floats and sells them at £0.75 and they are gooduns me duck. Know what you mean Simon takes a dedicated man to do that job but you do get quicker at it the more you do.

Larry Teepot · #3 (**permalink**) 16th January 2007, 11:03 PM

hope you gonna share these dibbers Bill...17 will take you ages to get through the speed you move at there s probabley 5 years supply

ridgeacre · #4 (**permalink**) 17th January 2007, 10:25 AM

I make some of my own but as Simon said after you have walked the streets looking for the materials and the time making them you ain't in pocket. I still make my own gudgeon floats for the cut on the whip you cannot buy them in any shop. Andy 222 usually comes round and pinches a few. We do have a old chap by us that makes them, thats all he does all day long, only charges 50/60 p each cheaper buying off him.

Brian G · #5 (**permalink**) 17th January 2007, 12:51 PM

In the days when match fishing was the be all for me I made thousands of floats, sticks, wagglers, zoomers, canal darts, sliders, you name it I think I made them, Billy Lanes Encyclopedia of Floats and articles in Angling Times by Ivan Marks were a source of information, mind you there was a close season when they could be made, there was something special about seeing a float you had made running down the swim and burying.

Kingfisher · #6 (**permalink**) 17th January 2007, 02:50 PM

Is that why you stopped making them Brian!!

Brian G · #7 (**permalink**) 17th January 2007, 03:44 PM

I stopped when I packed up fishing for a period of around 18 years, by the time I was back floats had changed out of recognition, plus all my jigs for drilling the balsa had gone missing. I keep on promising myself a day out on a river see if I can still run a stick through, I might just get one in before the close season, now where did I put that spliced tip stick rod.

Larry Teepot · #8 (**permalink**) 17th January 2007, 10:08 PM

what a great book that billy lane encyclopedia was used to read it cover to cover..........

mattress · #9 (**permalink**) 19th January 2007, 08:16 PM

Still got and use all my wagglers I made as a youngster, same with some sliding pole floats I use for silverfish shallow.
I thought about knocking out some pellet wags for the summer, they look about the easiest floats to make

weldec · #10 (**permalink**) 19th January 2007, 08:43 PM

Pete,

Fishing some of the snaggy margins shallow you can soon get through them mate.

Pm me your address and I will share my dibbers with you.