Why are floats so addictive?

[TF_baitchefParticipant]

[TomW]

Lol theyre really not!

[Nick D]

Im addicted to buying floats too.

[TF_Waveney One]

A bit like women – seductively attractive. Fortunately nowhere near as expensive.

[TF_fish_silver]

Probably because anglers are so gullible ~think

[Redfin]

i here ultima are bringing some out woner if they r as bad as the line is

[TF_baitchefParticipant]

Its not just pole floats though is it. Stick floats are the worse, closely followed by wagglers.

[pellethead76]

nowt wrong wiv ultima line red fin

[MrFoxman]

Yep they sure are addictive!!

[TF_wightangler]

good thread, how about How many floats
do you own and how many do you actually fish with reguarly?

[TF_ChavenderParticipant]

i love floats like these ,real things of beauty

well i have too really ,i make them ~clap

[TF_Tim_D]

Like groundbait, they catch more anglers than fish!

[TF_Fordy]

I have BOXES of stick floats I will probably never use.

I went through a spell a while back of buying every John Allerton wire stem I could find on ebay. Then I found out I was in a ”bidding war” with Phil Stone (Pebisit) for the same floats.

Then we hatched a plan to swap what we’d bought…….

I think I collect them because I always wanted to buy more when I was a kid and could never afford them!!!

[TF_skimmer_roo]

its the colourful bristles!! lol

[TF_teabag]

Personally I have no fetish for floats at all, but on the other hand, if we were talking about lumps of lead !!!!! ~shh

[TF_baitchefParticipant]

I remember when i was a kid, having a selection of wagglers and sticks in a crafted box meant you were important and a professional angler. Of course we were complete dreamers.

[TF_The Roach]

Stan Stephens Wagglers with the orange whipping around the base!!! Absolute quality and I still use them regularly today!!!!

[TF_Wheely Crap Angler]

Fly Velino were my thing a few years back……dont really get attatched these days.

[Anonymous]

Fordy wrote

I went through a spell a while back of buying every John Allerton wire stem I could find on ebay. Then I found out I was in a ”bidding war” with Phil Stone (Pebisit) for the same floats.
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I’ve lost count of the amount of the original John Allerton Alloy stem stick floats (the dark blue ones)i’ve given away over the years,must have cost me a small fortune.
Sure i’ve still got some knockin about somewhere in the house aswell

[TF_AnthonywatersParticipant]

I buy a load of pole floats im just ordering some more pellet pencils while im sat here its never ending !

[TF_proper tidal boy]

CHAVENDER why no porcupines????? as for the rest thats what dreams are for PURE QUALITY do you have a site for float admirers??????

[TF_ChavenderParticipant]

i do ,do porcupine but mostly as wagglers or with bulbous cork bodies as bobbers

its not al;ways easy too get a consistant supply of 5-7″ porcupine quills ,i actually have about 30+ 9-11″ porcupine quills which as they are ,are useless ,which i’ll probably cut into incert wagglers.

i do have a website in the works ,that i’m working on ,just need too get some really good photo’s done of the verious floats i do ,hopefully have it completed by the end of the season ,with a good few floats in stock

http://chavenderfloats.yuku.com/

[TF_badgerParticipant]

Do you all do the same as me ? Sit at home admiring your new floats and then start to pull them down as though you’ve just had a bite , how daft is that? If its a stick float you have to hold it at an angle and pretend your holding it back.~think

[Nick D]

@badger wrote:

Do you all do the same as me ? Sit at home admiring your new floats and then start to pull them down as though you’ve just had a bite , how daft is that?

Yeah i do that LOL!!

[TF_ChavenderParticipant]

i must admit that i do ,but i’m also so sad i’ll sit a twirl my centrepins back and forth and cant resist a phantom strike if i thinking about using one of me floats ,thats not too strange i don’t think ~shh ~think

[Redfin]

Nice floats you cant beat handmade too many mass made floats let you down

[Anonymous]

@Tim_D wrote:

Like groundbait, they catch more anglers than fish!

~clap ~clap ~clap ~clap ~clap ~clap ~clap ~clap

[Wader]

sure are. Just brought some lovely floats from Andys Floats have a look at his web page bet you addicts buy some.

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