Monster float

[Phil Arnott]

What a cracking picture, do you know where it is taken? Is that a wooden centrepin as well?

[Deaf Cat]

Assuming a swanshot is an SSG (1.6g)
then 200 swanshot is 320g
or roughly 11 ounces in old money.
Not so much if you are using a whole rat as bait.

[Snape]

What a cracking picture, do you know where it is taken? Is that a wooden centrepin as well?

It'll have been taken in South Wales near Rhossili Bay. Not sure whether that is his wooden centrepin but I have one of his 5 1/2 inch wooden centrepins.

[Santiago]

Looks like a Scarborough reel. Designed to fish off the North East coast.

[Duckett]

In the past I used floats the size of Nobby's for fishing for flatties in shallow river estuaries and deeper beach gullies on the NW England and N. Wales coast, particularly an hour either side of low tide. Also caught Gar and Mackerel, never a Bass like Snape's grandad though. As Wally suggests, I used to see them used on Llandudno and Bangor piers but I always found small Redgills more effective there.

Drilled bullet to balance them. Bait was often a ragworm, lugworm or thin sliver if Mackerel or Herring hooked at the wide end. Let it drift with the tide. Some sea floats seemed stupidly thick at the top and bottom, so I always preferred large river floats.

Mullet anglers are the only folk I regularly see using the technique these days. I ought to try it on the south coast.

[Reedling]

I sold this float a couple of years ago at Redditch. It was almost a metre long and took 300 swan shot.

That huge float is a cracker and I wonder if it was in a shop window once upon a time as an advertising piece. It looks older than Harcork types.

[TemeLAD]

What a superb photo Nigel - it's in the genes!

[Wagtail]

Not really big enough for a shop window display, I think this really was meant to be fished with. I think it's by Auger and holds about 30 BB!

Somehow missed this... as someone with a fondness for Auger floats all I can say is