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Stick Floats
Stick Floats
Stick Floats
Peter Drennan
PERFECTLY
1 BALANCED STICK
FLOATS CAN BE
CONSISTENTLY
Stick Floats not only fish best
in a non-turbulent flow, they
How do I shot presented like the loose feed.
The whole rig is fished on a
are easiest to control with a
light upstream wind which
stick floats? tight line, which combined
with this even distribution
is slightly off your back. A of shot, allows you to control
convenient wind blowing in The Stick Float method is the rise and fall of your hook-
this direction helps to billow absolutely inseparable from bait as you either hold back
the line out away from you, regular loose feeding of small on the float or allow it to run
avoiding the tendency for particle baits like Maggot & through. It is this movement
the Stick Float to drag back Caster where you are expect- and this controlled rise and
towards your bank. In more ing shoal fish like Roach and fall of the bait which makes
difficult conditions, with the Dace to be queuing up to the method so effective !
wind in your face or particu- take the free offerings as they
larly when it is directly down- fall down and through the
stream, backshotting, be- swim with the flow.
hind the float, is the answer.
The system is simply to place
a small shot, normally from For this reason, terminal
a No 8 to a No 4 about 20 to shotting is normally spaced
30cms above the float. This out above the hook over a
sinks a small section of line, distance of about 1metre
stops the float being pushed to 1.5 metres, the idea is
about by the surface skim to retain as much fluidity
and allows you to hold back as possible in the terminal
against this shot rather than tackle so your hook bait is
against the float itself.
NO 6
1.5 m
F LOW
NO 8
SHOTTING IS
TAPERED OFF
TOWARD THE
HOOK WITH THE MOST FISH ARE CAUGHT
N O 10
INDIVIDUAL SHOT DURING THE UPWARD
GETTING LIGHTER SWING OF THE BAIT OR
AND MORE SPREAD DURING ITS FALL BACK
TOWARDS THE BOTTOM
2
Controlling The angler has
carefully posi-
tioned himself
Sticks on the bend of a
small river where
the current goes
Lots of bites will of course out and away
from his own
come from simply running bank. he is able
the Stick Float through with to loose feed out
the current. Under these in front of his
circumstances, you can rely keepnet and let
the current do
in part on the weight of the all the work for
line behind the float and the him. 6 or 8 mag-
natural resistance of the line gots have been
peeling off the reel to margin- introduced every
single cast for
ally slow the progress of the more that two
Stick Float. However, extra hiurs and with
bites will be induced by hold- all the bait going
ing back harder and causing down the same
channel, the
the bait to rise and by then roach and dace
allowing the float to proceed are now queuing
and causing the bait to fall up just down-
back towards the bottom in a stream.
The easy preci-
tempting manner. sion of the loose
feeding being
matched by the
easy stick float
control which is
straight in line
downstream of
the rod top.
THE ANGLER HAS CAREFULLY POSITIONED HIMSELF ON THE BEND
OF A SMALL RIVER WHERE THE CURRENT GOES OUT AND AWAY
FROM HIS OWN BANK. HE IS ABLE TO LOOSE FEED OUT IN FRONT
OF HIS KEEPNET AND LET THE CURRENT DO ALL THE WORK FOR
How to cast a
HIM. 6 OR 8 MAGGOTS HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED EVERY SINGLE
CAST FOR MORE THAN TWO HOURS AND WITH ALL THE BAIT
GOING DOWN THE SAME CHANNEL, THE ROACH AND DACE ARE
stick float
NOW QUEUING UP JUST DOWNSTREAM.
THE EASY PRECISION OF THE LOOSE FEEDING IS BEING MATCHED
BY THE EASY STICK FLOAT CONTROL WHICH IS STRAIGHT IN LINE
DOWNSTREAM OF THE ROD TOP.