Peter Drennan Stabilizer floats

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Funnily enough, I found one in my collection yesterday. Better late than never!ImageImage

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You have to use it Michael.... It's the law, one if the best floats ever designed
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Good find! An inteesting concept. Do we know what they were made of? Weiighted/self cocking?

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Ian Lewis at Handmade Fishing Floats makes something very similar. He calls his a French Waggler ....... Ooh! Matron!
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Liphook wrote: Tue Oct 27, 2020 9:10 pm Good find! An inteesting concept. Do we know what they were made of? Weiighted/self cocking?
I'm not sure what they were made of Liphook but they weren't self cocking
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It's not a dissimilar design to modern 'paste' style pole floats with long stem, central body and long tip. Was it really that stable I wonder? Obviously not that popular otherwise it would still be in the Drennan range and a better known and copied style? I will make a few examples and give them a soaking I think :Hat:

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A chum far more skilled than me made me a couple that are similar to the originals and SK painted a couple of my attempts. I've used them and they are excellent for fishing the lift method, I'll post some pics a bit later
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It was as a lift method crucian float that the design immediately appealed to me. I currently use the tip ends of peacock quills. I'm assuming that 'stabilizer' label is referring to the casting qualities ie it waggles less in flight than a standard bottom bodied waggler?

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The one on the left I made and Stu painted, there is a larger one hiding in my shed somewhere, the other two were made by my chum, some of the first attempts at float making he did.

The Green one I lost at Abshot after being smashed by a good Tench in May 2019 and only retrieved it when we did some weed clearing the day before the lockdown this March.
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