What colour floats do you prefer?

[Match Aerial]

Yes I think it probably is. So long ago since I bought it I've forgotten.

Its a good idea firebird as it will not increase the thickness of the tip like a length of silicon rubber does.
You can get it in different colours as well, does it say on ok mate ?


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[Bobby Marlene]

black is beautiful
Bobby

[MaggotDrowner]

Yellow is by far the best for me in most situations with my colourbilnd eyes. It was a revelation to start using yellow when I began making my own floats and ditched the plastic. I started by making one or two in yellow to do something different. These days 95% of my floats have a yellow tip. To me yellow stands out well against almost everything. I only use red when fishing against the reflections of very bright white clouds. I suspect black would be even better here but I have never made any black floats.

[NiceRoach]

Yellow is by far the best for me in most situations with my colourbilnd eyes. It was a revelation to start using yellow when I began making my own floats and ditched the plastic. I started by making one or two in yellow to do something different. These days 95% of my floats have a yellow tip. To me yellow stands out well against almost everything. I only use red when fishing against the reflections of very bright white clouds. I suspect black would be even better here but I have never made any black floats.

Try it MD, ---- You'll find black is amazing against the white/grey background of a stillwater in daylight

[Mario]

i like red tops

[Mark_N]

After this discussion I decided to investigate how Black floats perform for me vs my traditional orange. I decided to convert a few of my former orange tips to Black as an experiment, I couldn't resist a little splash of Orange though in a couple.

I will report back on how they do next time I am out.

[Mark_N]

A Progress report.

I gave one of the quills with the orange dot a go at the weekend. I guess it wasn't a complete test as there was a little bit of orange still, but it was It was easy to see and as testament accounted for a few small carp and tench.

These will definitely be staying in the tackle box, next time I'll try an all black one.

Thanks for the suggestion Gentlemen

[Richard Jackson]

Black is my prefered colour ,i can see that regardless of conditions

[Reedling]

I use a Waggler float like your right hand example Mark_N but it is black all the way down the stem, if you just have a black tip the lift bites do not show so well. A totally black stem really shows the lift bite well... a nice black, white, black, white stem is so lovely to watch rising, you may forget to strike in the excitement!

[Kingfisher]

I've been making some small duckers with a long white stem then multi coloured tip in yellow and orange. Hopefully I should see them in most lights but it never matters much for me as I'm a margin angler primarily.