With over 50 years of fishing experience, from local clubs to Open Matches, Nationals, and World Championships. World champion “1987” and runner-up Silver Medal “1986” Gold Medal Team Wales “1989” Clive Branson passes on all known fishing float methods and techniques through this float-fishing Website
Clive has collated the most comprehensive float fishing range possible: Now available to all anglers, whether experienced or a beginner. Including all the latest information and technical advances, with first-hand knowledge and experiences.
Throughout the Website he discuses the history and the evolution of floats, where and when they were discovered and developed, how to use Pole Floats, how to use wagglers, how to use stick floats, how to use all floats and showing you diagrams and illustrations, techniques and methods used by himself and other World class Anglers, ensuring the greater understanding and usage.
INTRODUCTION
By Clive Branson
Welcome to my Float fishing Website. It has always been an ambition of mine to put to-gether a full range of fishing float products. With methods and techniques changing drastically over the years, I feel it is now time for a reference library and Website on the subject, and the Internet is an ideal medium to market my floats.
Anglers on the fishing bank these days use float fishing techniques probably more than any other method available to them. Float fishing is a skill to learn,
very interesting and enjoyable, and catching fish on a homemade float has
more satisfaction than anything I know, it is an art to catch fish, so
much so that the governing body of the World Angling Championships C.I.P.S.
Will only recognise and allow float-caught fish in the Freshwater World Championships
FLOAT FISHING
In recent years there has been an explosion of new floats. This I believe, is due to the pole popularity and the continental influence. New design of wagglers, loaded missiles, feeder floats, shaped stick floats, and so on… Yet if we look back at the old design and materials of floats we find that most have been used before, some lost in the sands of time and in our quest to develop new ones, I have re reintroduced them back into the marketplace through my company “Gold Medal floats co uk”. I have talked to old master’s and have covered many old magazines and books, rediscovering the old forgotten floats and their applications. I believe we have to look back and see how floats were first invented and how they were used, and for what purposes. Then we can analyse the developments and put all the new floats into perspective. We take the float for granted, but stop for a moment and analyse how the float has so many specific jobs to do;
* (1) It helps cast the bait
* (2) It carries the bait in the swim.
* (3) It helps to present the bait naturally or unnaturally, slow it
down or speed it up
* (4) It registers a bite.
* (5) It helps to keep control of the tackle.
* (6) It catches fish.
* (7) It can also help to land the fish. (guiding the fish out of snags)
* (8) It can, under certain circumstances, attract the fish to the bait.
* (9) It can, now carry loose feed and groundbait into the swim.
* (10) It can help you fish in the dark with a light on top.
* (11) It can cast tremendous distances.
* (12) It can hook the fish
Now, all this may seem obvious to an experienced angler, but it is remarkable how many anglers overlook the basics that the float is intended to present the bait to the fish as naturally as possible without being too sensitive, registering false and phantom bites.
Materials have an important part to play in developing a float, for a specific job, making a float sensitive enough but enabling it to cope with different situations, such as weather and light conditions.
With space age materials now at our disposal, materials like carbon, polystyrene, glass, tungsten, plastics, and other composites, we have the technology with precision engineering to make the perfect floats. Yet not so long ago our angling predecessors had to content with a limited selection of materials to build his floats, such as crow quill, pith, porcupine, cork, balsa, cane, and only in the mid 1950’s was peacock discovered and imported into the UK.
We are now in an exciting stage of development within fishing products generally, the development of super glues and self-moulding materials now catapulting angling into the 21st century.
CB Angling Publication, Evesham, 1997. (c)
Now for Sale: The complete Float Manual, over 167 pages of content
