The Clive Branson's Float Fishing Encyclopedia.....

Clive Branson's Float Fishing eZine Encyclopedia CD

With over 40 years of fishing experience, from local clubs to Opens, Nationals, and World Championships. Former World champion "87" and runner-up "86" Clive Branson passes on all known fishing floats, methods and techniques through this float-fishing Ezine encyclopedia.

It has been a long time coming for an up to-date manual, of a float-fishing manual, Including all the latest information and technical advances, with first hand knowledge and  experience's. Clive has collated the most comprehensive float guide that has been put on print to date.
    
Throughout the Ezine manual he discuses the history and the evolution of floats, where and when they were discovered and developed, how to use them, showing you diagrams and illustrations,  techniques and methods used by himself and other World class Anglers, ensuring the reader greater understanding and usage.

D R Williams

INTRODUCTION
By Clive Branson  

Welcome to my Float fishing manual and Ezine encyclopedia, It has always been an ambition of mine to put to-gether a full illustration on all aspects of float fishing. With methods and techniques changing drastically over the years, I feel it is now time for a reference book on the subject and the Internet is an ideal medium to market this.

Anglers on the fishing bank these days use float fishing techniques more than any other method available to them. Float fishing is very interesting and enjoyable, some times catching fish on a home made float has more satisfaction than any thing I know, it really is an art to catching fish, so much so that the governing body of World Angling Championships C.I.P.S. Will only recognise and allow float caught fish in their competitions.

There is a saying in the trade that "floats catch more anglers than fish" I used to believe this but now having travelled and fished with some of the best anglers in the World learning the different shapes of floats especially pole floats and how they work in the water, I now never scoff at all those different shapes and designs.
 
In my research and survey's I have spoken to some great anglers and yet is seems that we all have  favourite floats, we may have hundreds in our box yet still we tend to use the same tried and tested one's,

Sometimes a new shape comes on the fishing scene, and so we try it and suprisingly it increase our catch, and we wonder why we never used it before.
I believe angler's generally are a bit apathetic to learn new approaches on float fishing, usually because they only ever read upon them and are never shown or taught why and how they work, so with that in mind I write this manual.
In my opinion there is no greater experience in fishing than catching fish on a well presented float.

INTRODUCTION TO FLOAT FISHING
In recent years their's been an explosion of new floats, this I believe is due to the pole popularity, and the continental influence, suddenly we are taking notice of all the different shapes and designs, and colour's that now expound us. 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, perhaps lost in the sands of time and in our quest to develop new ones. 
In my research for this manual 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 just stop for a moment and analyse how the float has so many specific jobs to do;

• (1) It helps cast the bait
• (2) It carry's the bait in the swim.
• (3) It helps to present the bait naturally or un-naturally, 
• slow it down or speed it up.
  
• (4) It registers a bite.
  
• (5) It helps to keep the 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 over look the basics that the float is intended to present the bait to the fish as naturally as possible without being to sensitive registering false 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 within our grasp, materials like carbon, polystyrene, glass, tungsten, plastics and other composites, we now 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.
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 CB Angling Publication, Evesham, 1997. (c)

Contents of directory....

Click on float discription to access the page.

WAGGLER'S

PEACOCK STRAIGHT

PEACOCK INSERTED

PEACOCK STEPPED

 BODY WAGGLER

TOP EYE WAGGLER

LOADED WAGGLER

STILL WATER  BLUE

HINGED WAGGLER

MISSILES

DART

MAGGOT  FEEDERFLOAT

GROUNDBAIT  FEEDERFLOAT

CLEARWAGGLER

BALSA WAGGLER

DUCKER

ONION

CROWQUILL  WAGGLER

SLIDER'S

TROTTERS

STICK FLOATS

LIGNUM STICK

LONG STICK

LIGHT CANE  STICK

PLASTIC STICK

WIRE STEM  STICK

BRISTLE STICK

FLAT TOP

BALSA FLOAT

CHUBBER

LOAFER

SLIDING BALSA

AVON FLOAT

POLE FLOATS

RIVER POLE  FLOATS

PEAR SHAPE

REVERESE PEAR

SHOULDER PEAR

SMALL SHOULDER

LONG SHOULDER

LONG BODY RIVER

OVAL BODY

BARREL BODY

WINE BOTTLE

ROUND

RUDDER

DIPPER

STILLWATER POLE FLOATS

PEAR

STILL WATER REVERSE PEAR

LONG PEAR

EXTRA LONG PEAR

LONG CANE TIP

LONG OVAL

WIDE BASE

POLE WAGG (DIBBER)

MATCHSTICK

BLOODWORM BALSA

ALL BALSA

CANALS

FUNNYFLOAT

PENCIL WHIP

 BOLOGNESE

PASTE

The Waggler Without doubt the most used float in the tackle box today! Probably accounting for more fish caught in one season, than any other fishing method used.

The Feeder Waggler The New range of body and feeder wagglers. First developed by Clive Branson during the 1970s

Mytop tips showing you the best way to apply the tecniques of float fishing

 'Top Tips! on pole float fishing from teardrop to reverse pear shapes, from river to still water pole floats.

Click HERE to see Clive Branson's Popular Angling-news 

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