Hi ,
i’ve been using the 4×10 and 4×12 lately on a venue where half the pegs suffer from a really strong prevailing gale force cross wind which funnels down a valley and makes the required soft pellet/meat fishing long to a central island and getting brief moments of decent presentation a nightmare!
– So have to say they are remarkably stable as Joe states in his magazine review for such conditions and the reason why i bought them ( a good mate normally makes all my commie type floats)
My only ‘down’ is the actual body size – obviously wire stems require a body 1 size approx. larger to compensate for the extra wire weight.
The wire itself that Joe describes as ‘carbon wire’ is indeed a lot stronger than the wire normally found on floats.
Although, unsurprisingly- after several 6lb ers trying to get into the marginal reeds in front and large bush on the immediate right of my peg – I noticed by the end that the wire had bent a little out of shape.
After some careful tweaking its deffo fishable again.
The 1.75 hollow tip works well – as in calmer conditions you can fish big 6mm soft pellet and corn just off the deck instead of just touching. A lot of my commie floats already have 1.50 -1.75 tips anyway as i think you can dot them and you can still see them in a ripple(meaning for carp – not silvers,obviously).
That float got me bites that my ‘normal’ glass stem and carbon range would not have – indeed a good few have previously been tried.there. That in itself justifies the outlay,imo.
So i’ll deffo be getting some more – as it’s stability equaled bites and i prefer slim body shapes for lifting/dropping generally – & when its possible on that particular peg in question.
TF_Anthonywaters.
