The Traditional Fisherman's Forum

Firebird wrote: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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black is beautiful
Bobby

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.

MaggotDrowner wrote: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

i like red tops

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.

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

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

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!

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.