pole float visibility

[TF_punchcrumb]

Any tips regarding the best floats for visibility when fishing long pole In poor light and variable backgrounds.

[TF_shark]

I too really struggle with visibility of tips especially this time of year.
Never really found a solution but I tend to use a thicker bristle dotted down.
Be interested in the replies 🙂

[TF_fennmd]

i have some floats that are painted white and some of them i put black stripes on,its not for everybody but it works for me

[TF_paulk66]

Yellow seems to be a good colour in variable conditions. Also, as mentioned, a thicker tip, dotted down. But then everyone is different. You could get some of the coloured pole float sleeves. Then you can change colours to suit. I have them and they do help. 🙂

[TF_punchcrumb]

Not sure about the black and white striped tip :confused: thick tips seem the way to go good job I can only hold the pole at 11 meters these days i woudnt see It at 16m even if I could hold the blinking thing 😀 .
Never actualy fished with a yella topped float always go for orange day glow but I do belive hollow tipped floats are all the rage nowadays are the new floats by Drennan any good? 😮

[TF_punchcrumb]

@fennmd wrote:

i have some floats that are painted white and some of them i put black stripes on,its not for everybody but it works for me

Are you serious or do you follow Newcastle United? 😀

[TF_fennmd]

i dont like pardew hes shot away and when i say black stripes i mean horizontal stripes not vertical

[TF_slippery]

The best i have ever used are Jon Walker hand mades.

[TF_Double Dipper man]

Hi here’s something I’ve been playing about with for fishing in dark water, it’s a homemade pole float that houses a small starlight, black out 95 % of your starlight with a cellulose marker and you have a very good float for fishing across on canals under dark bushes etc or in any darker water, just an idea it doesn’t work when the sun’s in your mince pies though but I do think it has potential -Ant

[TF_wightangler]

i tend to use black in white water or a piece of those drennan tip sleeves to thicken the end of the tip- if a thicker tip 1.5 or 1.75mm tip isn’t working.
Worst is heavy rain and a ripple as black then becomes impossible to see ok.

[TF_punchcrumb]

@fennmd wrote:

i dont like pardew hes shot away and when i say black stripes i mean horizontal stripes not vertical

Yep i did wonder how vertical stripes would be achieved so I sussed they were indeed horizontal 🙂

[TF_matchace]

spec savers by one get one free looooooooool
they have loads of choice also

[TF_punchcrumb]

@matchace wrote:

spec savers by one get one free looooooooool
they have loads of choice also

must get my monacle re :rolleyes: placed

[TF_punchcrumb]

@matchace wrote:

spec savers by one get one free looooooooool
they have loads of choice also

must get my monacle re :rolleyes: placed 😮 😮 😮

[TF_fishman12345]

I use the tuff eye pole floats they come with interchangeable bristles black.yellow, orange so you can change tops as light changes

[TF_wightangler]

weirdly, partly because of tip interchangeability – but really for the solid plastic bristles(to show hold-ups, lifts and more noticeable indications with no.10/11 dropper shot. – have gone back to the old drennan quads (Benwicks still stock all the weight/size range) for skimmers and g/purpose silvers for 6/7′ and the tipo’s for 12′ plus and silvers.

I, nevertheless still use a different pattern though for’ heavy’ d/bulking and laying on for bigger skimmers.

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