Hi All,
I've got a situation where I want to try floats in conjunction with alarms and heavy leads. I saw an eppisisode John Wilson did years ago with floats you could self cock at range under tension.
Anyone know what they're called or where I can get a couple?
Best in advance
Jon
I've got a situation where I want to try floats in conjunction with alarms and heavy leads. I saw an eppisisode John Wilson did years ago with floats you could self cock at range under tension.
Anyone know what they're called or where I can get a couple?
Best in advance
Jon
In reply to Post #1
Polaris floats I believe.
Polaris floats I believe.
In reply to Post #1
The polaris floats I think you mean, or locslide. I use one a lot although for tench and bream fishing, rod pointed straight at it and tighten up until it cocks. I use a cage feeder under one usually, they are very versatile
The polaris floats I think you mean, or locslide. I use one a lot although for tench and bream fishing, rod pointed straight at it and tighten up until it cocks. I use a cage feeder under one usually, they are very versatile
Thank you both, problem solved
Best
Jon
Best
Jon
Took me 10 mins to find em, too late by then 🤣
You can make a simple self locking float very easy.
Just get a cork from a wine bottle, make two holes right through the cork with an angle of about 45 degrees that both exit about 1/4 of an inch apart and at the other side the holes should be about an inch apart. You can even make the holes straight through the cork parallel as the system still works.
Then get a couple of pieces of biro tube and push them though the holes and cut them flush with the cork.
Then all you have to do is thread your line through the side with the holes about an inch apart, and back through the hole at the opposite side below the one the line emerges from which should be a 1/4 inch below it and then add a lead.
Cast out, slack line, the cork will slide up the line and when you tighten up it will lock, and will hold that position as you wind in.
I have been using corks like this since the 60's for finding out the depth quick for a rough idea or for a zig or as a self locking float when dead baiting etc.
With a bit of imagination, you use something less narrow than a cork and easily add an antenna to use it as a normal float
Looking online, I cannot find any reference or pictures to this method so it must be a long forggoten art and skill,
Just get a cork from a wine bottle, make two holes right through the cork with an angle of about 45 degrees that both exit about 1/4 of an inch apart and at the other side the holes should be about an inch apart. You can even make the holes straight through the cork parallel as the system still works.
Then get a couple of pieces of biro tube and push them though the holes and cut them flush with the cork.
Then all you have to do is thread your line through the side with the holes about an inch apart, and back through the hole at the opposite side below the one the line emerges from which should be a 1/4 inch below it and then add a lead.
Cast out, slack line, the cork will slide up the line and when you tighten up it will lock, and will hold that position as you wind in.
I have been using corks like this since the 60's for finding out the depth quick for a rough idea or for a zig or as a self locking float when dead baiting etc.
With a bit of imagination, you use something less narrow than a cork and easily add an antenna to use it as a normal float
Looking online, I cannot find any reference or pictures to this method so it must be a long forggoten art and skill,
In reply to Post #1
Def polaris - they do a stubby one thats perfect for carp . . .used them for fishing holes in weed . . vertical line can sometimes fox them . . .
Def polaris - they do a stubby one thats perfect for carp . . .used them for fishing holes in weed . . vertical line can sometimes fox them . . .
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Think that was in a early Jim gibbinson book. if not it should have been
Think that was in a early Jim gibbinson book. if not it should have been
In reply to Post #1
The picture below in this thread is a locslide float the Polaris had a thicker cylinder at the base of the float in which you thread the line top to bottom.
But both are pretty identical in the way they work.
They are really designed for deeper water 6ft plus I used them a lot in the 90s. Also for pike as they have great sensitivity which is needed to avoid deep hooking.
The picture below in this thread is a locslide float the Polaris had a thicker cylinder at the base of the float in which you thread the line top to bottom.
But both are pretty identical in the way they work.
They are really designed for deeper water 6ft plus I used them a lot in the 90s. Also for pike as they have great sensitivity which is needed to avoid deep hooking.
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>>>>Think that was in a early Jim gibbinson book. if not it should have been<<<<
I actually think it is myself, but not sure what book it is in, I have had a look in his early ones but cannot see it. Maybe it was in a very early angling times article.
As far as I know, I have all his books, but just doing a check, I see in Abes books their is one called "Carp" 1968, from the "Richard Walker Gallery" wrote by a James A Gibbinson with a price of £1,117.67. I have one same title, but mines soft back, this ones a hardback, but even so, there is no mention of a self locking float in it.
>>>>Think that was in a early Jim gibbinson book. if not it should have been<<<<
I actually think it is myself, but not sure what book it is in, I have had a look in his early ones but cannot see it. Maybe it was in a very early angling times article.
As far as I know, I have all his books, but just doing a check, I see in Abes books their is one called "Carp" 1968, from the "Richard Walker Gallery" wrote by a James A Gibbinson with a price of £1,117.67. I have one same title, but mines soft back, this ones a hardback, but even so, there is no mention of a self locking float in it.
In reply to Post #11
OK thanks , don't look to hard I might be wrong, I can see the diagram in my head but maybe someone else
OK thanks , don't look to hard I might be wrong, I can see the diagram in my head but maybe someone else
In reply to Post #1
was speaking to a mate about these last night - he mentioned that he uses them to gauge the depth for fishing zigs when turning up in the dark, but like a reverse marker float. Clever chap.
was speaking to a mate about these last night - he mentioned that he uses them to gauge the depth for fishing zigs when turning up in the dark, but like a reverse marker float. Clever chap.