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So I’ve got a little range of bolo floats.

Agree with a lot of the comments, there is clearly an overlap of designs and styles, but bolognese style fishing is essentially the ability to fish a top and bottom float at range where stick floats and avons cannot cope with that range. As mentioned earlier, bolo fishing traditionally involves a longer rod of up to 18 feet to control a float running through at distance.
 
Steve Jeffery said:
Agree with a lot of the comments, there is clearly an overlap of designs and styles, but bolognese style fishing is essentially the ability to fish a top and bottom float at range where stick floats and avons cannot cope with that range. As mentioned earlier, bolo fishing traditionally involves a longer rod of up to 18 feet to control a float running through at distance.
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IMO, this is correct.

It's the style of fishing that's called Bolo or Bolognese fishing, not the float. We've just grouped a range of big floats together that suit a particular style of fishing and called them Bolo floats. Same as bottom end floats all being called Wagglers now, rather than Onions, Swingers, Missiles, Zoomers. They're all wagglers now.

I dare say a very large stick float on a bolo rod would work just as well.


As usual, your craftmanship is top drawer Richard. 👍
 
Jim Gregory said:
Many floats of a said pattern or style, have advanced🤔or more likely just adapted to suit the current trends.
Have a look at avons from 100yrs ago!.
Can't comment on bolos, as I think they are European.
Either way, your floats look excellent for today's style of big baits, specimen fish
fishing.
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Or big powerful rivers with small baits like maggots after silvers
 
Richard Isaacs said:
Whatever people choose to call them, it’s all I use religiously on rivers for trotting and have done for years.
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From what I've seen on the bank etc, wire/carbon stem bolo and avons are really popular these days.
I sold the remainder of my traditional style stick/avon floats on here some time ago and all i use now are Andy Burts Superb offerings and a really good peacock waggler design with interchangeable tips.The crystal plastic wagglers are absolute trash imo(can't cast and break easy)
Will try some of yours Richard with black tip paint at the ready 😀
 
Dave Brooksbank said:
From what I've seen on the bank etc, wire/carbon stem bolo and avons are really popular these days.
I sold the remainder of my traditional style stick/avon floats on here some time ago and all i use now are Andy Burts Superb offerings and a really good peacock waggler design with interchangeable tips.The crystal plastic wagglers are absolute trash imo(can't cast and break easy)
Will try some of yours Richard with black tip paint at the ready 😀
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When the stock has gone Dave if you want black tips I’ll paint and clear coat some black specially for you 👍🏻
 
Anyone wanting 10grammers I’ve got 2x batches of 7.

£19.50 each posted. Pm me first come first served
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Ref the 4g floats I’ll let the ones I’ve done go but when they gone they gone.
Reason being I’m not happy with the finish on them. They work fantastic and fish really well but they are incredibly difficult to bore out straight for big tips and most of them aren’t looking as good as the bigger floats. So 6’s and 10’s for the bigger rivers only is where I’m going forward and the 4’s I’ve made I’ll sell when ready but that will be it after they gone
 
Bit late to the party here, but these look top notch! Really well priced too!

I’ll take a couple of sets of the 6grammers - stick me on the list!
 
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