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Chub Floats

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Rupert Mcart

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Hi - any recommendations for chub floats outside of Drennan loafers (not that there is anything wrong with them)

Are Clearwater still trading - they did some nice ones from memory? Can see anything online.
 
Rupert Mcart said:
Hi - any recommendations for chub floats outside of Drennan loafers (not that there is anything wrong with them)

Are Clearwater still trading - they did some nice ones from memory? Can see anything online.
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I stopped using loafers, sticks and avons years ago and I only trot stemmed top n bottom floats nowadays. It’s also very uncommon that I would go lighter than 4g

I’m not making floats anymore once I’ve cleared my remaining stock so as Ian said Andy Burt on here does good ones. Dave harrel floats are good. I particularly like his no2 no3 and no6 depending on what I’m faced with.

My absolute favourites are made by lineaeffe called unbreakabke night floats.
 
I wouldn't normally criticise equipment failure, as it's often user error, but I've had a couple of the Dave Harrell balsa missiles fail where the plastic insert meets the body... gets soggy at the joint, maybe. The all-plastic Drennan loafers may be indestructible, but the tip paint is weak - relies too much on backlight (sunlight).

Might try some of the Korum ones (below) - I have some of their wire-stemmed Avons and you can see the tips a mile off, whatever the weather. Not sure if they are all plastic, or balsa. Quite like the horse sh1t colour.

I use loafers (and all my trotting floats) top n bottom, but that's probably just beginners ignorance... I don't see how you stop them diving otherwise. Those Lineaeffe floats look pretty useful, Richard.
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Richard Isaacs said:
Stemmed floats both cut through the water very well whilst the large bodies when heavily weighted offer really excellent stability
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But when trotting, don't you want the float to be carried by the water, rather than cutting through it? I'd have thought a narrow stemmed float, with less resistance, would be something to use when trying to hold back a little against the flow. Just curious.

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Kevin Steele said:
But when trotting, don't you want the float to be carried by the water, rather than cutting through it? I'd have thought a narrow stemmed float, with less resistance, would be something to use when trying to hold back a little against the flow. Just curious.

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You’ve answered your own question there Kevin
Wherever possible I always reduce the pace of the float against the surface pace of the river to mimic the flow rate at the bottom and kick the bait out infront.
The river is both carrying and being cut through by a reduced pace float.
 
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