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Float news
By Jeff Vaughan
 2008 Highlighted a new dimension to float
fishing at Long Sault. As I said in the main article I have
always been a float fishing fan and have always used them at LS
but this year has been exceptional.
I guess the first move was my new float rod. Armed with a 2.75
t/c pukka float rod, I was more confident to float fish for the
bigger fish and it was not long before I had my first 30 on the
float, where before I was loosing them. But something else
significant happened.
During the summer when out with customers, we were getting a lot
of short aborted runs. Of course all carpers get these from time
to time, but out here a short run is normally 25 yards. It is
very unusual for a run to stop and we were getting a lot of
these. After sitting with a customer one day I decided to go
back and pick up the Polaris float and fish beside him. In 30
minutes I had 5 fish.
This started happening more and more, Colin who was originally
totally anti float fishing (it aint proper carp fishing) was
quick to see the benefits and became a convert very fast. We
then put a few carp float rigs into the hire stable and more and
more guys were using them and out fishing the lead.
The success was stunning. I am talking about out fishing the
lead 4 fish to one. We are not talking anything sophisticated
here we were rigging customers out with 2.5 T/C through action
carp rods. 30 to 50 lb braids and float ledgering with Polaris
floats. Why it works so well I do not know. We tried fishing
light leads on running rigs and smaller hooks beside the float
rigs and still the floats scored every time.
So a few things here contradict my main article. I have moved
away from nylon on most of my float rigs, simply the fish out
here are so powerful they make long runs against the drag and
the line twist this imparts very quickly screws up the line and
you start to loose fish. Loosing fish is just not acceptable to
us as it is not clever to leave a carp towing 20 ft of line and
with a hook in its mouth. The braid is far harder to sink, hence
the Polaris float leger rig which gets around the problem. I
also think that with the Polaris rig a fairly standard carp rod
is the best unless of course you can afford the Fox Duo lite
Floodwater barbel rod; this has been my favourite toy of 2008.
For 2009 we are putting a lot more float rigs into service and
both Colin and I are GAGGING to get on the Polaris in the
shallow bays come spring. We are going to take them apart !!!
(mind you sitting at my desk in the UK I always think that )
Here are some great articles to get
you started!
Casting |
Feeding |
Fish Location |
Fishing the Method
Fishing With Corn
| Flavouring
Baits |
Float Fishing for Carp
Float News
| Getting an Edge
| Hook Baits
Quiver Tipping for Carp
| Spodding
| Marker Floats and
Feature Finding
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