🏞️ FLAT TOP STICK FLOAT (Built to Hold in Heavy Flows and Drag Bottom) The Flat Top Stick — sometimes called the Large Dome Top Stick — is a big cane and balsa stick float designed for distance fishing and dragging the bait along the bottom in fast-flowing swims. The flat dome-shaped top makes the…

🪄 BRISTLE TOP STICK FLOAT (Hyper-Sensitive Presentation for Shy Biters) The Bristle Top Stick Float is a pattern I developed myself, adapted from a pole float. It looks like a standard stick float — but with a key difference: a nylon bristle tip. The idea came from fishing for wary, older roach on the Warwickshire…

🪙 WIRE STEM STICK FLOAT (Stability and Control in Turbulent Swims) The wire stem — or alloy stem — stick float was first designed to handle difficult boils and turbulence in the swim, helping the float hold steady where other floats would struggle. Over time, this float became a firm favourite for me and many…

🧪 PLASTIC STEM STICK FLOAT (A Modern Twist on a Classic Design) Plastic stem stick floats have become a modern favourite — almost as good as the original cane sticks, and in some cases, even better. Thanks to precision engineering and modern composite materials, today’s plastic stems offer exceptional strength, durability, and versatility. Plastics now…

🪶 LIGHT CANE STICK FLOAT (Delicate Presentation for Shallow to Medium Flows) The light cane stick float is the smaller, more delicate member of the stick float family — ideal for lighter work and close-to-the-bank fishing. It excels in slow to medium pace running water, where finesse and sensitivity are more important than distance or…

🪜 THE LONG STICK FLOAT (Built for Control in Deep, Flowing Water) The Long Stick Float was originally developed by Midlands angler Mark Cordon to tackle the deep, powerful swims of the Warwickshire Avon. Its main advantage lies in allowing the angler to mend the line without lifting the float off its downward trot or…

🪵 LIGNUM STICK FLOAT (A Heavyweight Classic for Long Trotting) The Lignum stick float is a rediscovered classic that has grown steadily in popularity over the last few decades. It gives anglers the extra casting weight needed to reach mid-river or the far bank, places where a traditional stick float often can’t. It has proven…

🎯 SLIDING WAGGLER (The Float That Conquers Depth) This float can catch fish when other floats can’t. Whether in 8 feet or 28 feet of water, the sliding waggler can present a bait far more effectively at depth than any fixed float ever could. The sliding waggler is typically used when a fixed float simply…

🐉 BIG BARBEL WAGGLER The Big Barbel Waggler is a specialist float I developed for dragging hard along the riverbed — designed specifically to target powerful, bottom-feeding barbel. This beefed-up version of the classic balsa river waggler carries between 8–16 swan shot, giving it the strength and buoyancy needed to hold station and work the…

🐉 THE DEEP DOCK SLIDER The Deep Dock Sliding Float is a clever and highly practical design that allows anglers to fish very deep water with a rod and reel, avoiding the awkwardness of using a long roach pole in extreme depths. On venues exceeding 20 ft or more, setting the depth with a fixed…