User reveiw drennan crystal dibbers

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- 06/06/2014 at 8:29 am #57636
  TF_Fred Davis
  I must admit to using these floats for the first time yesterday at decoy fishing up in the water for F1’s, although I had a reasonable day I had problems with these floats the main problem is that the floats have such a fine fibre glass stem they tend to slide about despite finding the finest silicone tubing to secure them in place, a brilliant float shame about the stem, if the stem was in .75 or 1 mm fiberglass they would have been unreal.
- 06/06/2014 at 8:48 am #172243
  TF_scottyp
  Good point fred – i bought and rigged some up last night, i’ve used a very long piece of silicone down the whole stem ans it seems to have secured the float pretty well
- 06/06/2014 at 11:48 am #172247
  TF_Double Dipper man
  Just put mine on winders seem alright with 0.5mm silicone on – I always put a shot under my floats anyway, are the eyes so small for a reason ?
- 06/06/2014 at 3:47 pm #172248
  TF_CraigH
  I never had a problem with the float sliding about. Maybe you need some smaller tubing
- 06/06/2014 at 5:40 pm #172250
  TF_Tenchman
  I would blame your silicone not the float
- 06/06/2014 at 6:25 pm #172251
  TF_Fred Davis
  great up in the water floats however the float isn’t secure, it’s when you start to slap with them that they slide to easily having a shot under the float does not stop it moving up, started with 0.5 silicone changed it to stuff I use on wire stems still had problems when slapping! Nightmare :confused:
- 06/06/2014 at 7:30 pm #172253
  TF_proper tidal boy
  fred I use old hydro for my pole rigs never had a prob with narrow stems even drennan hollow is just as good ?? 😀
- 07/06/2014 at 8:11 am #172255
  TF_Fred Davis
  I’ll have to source some good silicone or take scottyp’s advice and put silicone tubing down the whole stem, thick hydro tubing just won’t do it on an ultra fine stem, did think about taking the stem out re-drilling and putting a thicker one in might still give that a whirl.
- 07/06/2014 at 11:16 am #172256
  TF_wightangler
  checked the drennan crystal dibber stems last night – they’re thicker than carbon and 0.6mm wire stems and only just a tad smaller than the coloured fibreglass a local bloke makes our floats from, and fit snugly, without any movement, on basic semi-clear commercial silicon.
- 07/06/2014 at 11:25 am #172259
  TF_Fred Davis
  As I trashed a few the other day I have reset them up with some new clear 0.5 silicone however I have increased the length of silicon tubing on the float as scottyp suggested to virtually cover the stem seems little movement now well see if works on my next slapping session 😉
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