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100% African

Senior Member
hey

I've bought some tiger nuts flavour boilies 18mm, and got some hair rigs and the tool to hook them up. the bread i'll get on the day I go, lol. Reel is sorted (using bass reel) and rod i'll buy this week. also got some mealie bomb and mealies(banana Flavour) from a while back. Got some floats that I picked up somewhere alomg the line... those bandit ones with the thin stick comming out the bottom and the tube on it. Is there anything else I should get? Pellets? What flavour/brand is good?

Also, whats the best way to get the distance to put your float on? fishing from the bank means no fish finder to tell you depth, so how do you figure it out? is it just trial and error?

So need rod and pellets. and better floats if I see any.

Cant wait to try it out...
 
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sebastiaan

Member
I don't know much about this but as far as i understand to get your hook on the bottom you must use a huge lead sinker called plunger. Put this on the end of you line and cast in, if the float is pulled under the line is to short and if the ine is to long the float will lie flat on the surface. Just carry on adjusting it until it is right then put your hook on.
 
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Lunker

Senior Member
Sebastian, you right about setting up the float but what I have been testing for the last few sessions is what weight is perfect for float fishing and finally yesterday worked it out because the weight must not be to heavy because the theory behind float fishing is that the float is your indication when the carp takes the bait and the fish must not really feel that it is hooked until you strike so the weight must just be heavy enough to pull your float down and is not used for hooking the carp like in specimen where they use heavy leads to set the hook and then the fish runs.

This is the set up.
1: Run a gummy stop first onto mainline
2: Then thread the float on
3: Then another Gummy stop
4: Thread on another gummy stop on to stop the weight from running free
5: Thread on a running ball weight, the best one is the little salt water ones. Buy three different sizes but not very heavy ones. The reason for the ball weight is that split shots damage your line and weaken it and you can loose fish that way.
6: Tie on your hook link. Hooklink consists of hook tied to 20cm piece of braid and then attached to swivel. Attach mainline to swivel.
7: Push the last gummy stop down towards the ball weight and secure the weight as tight as possible to the hooklink swivel.

100% this method work, posting a thread on yesterdays session.
 
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squidgy

New member
To get the correct depth, you have to “plumb” the depth. What you do is attach a heavy sinker directly to your hook and then the float will either sink, float, or sit straight. When the float is sitting straight you then remove the sinker and attach only the weight needed to allow your float to sit straight with the tip above water so that when you get a take the float will move either up, down or sideways, and then you can strike. I use a “whip” or a “pole”, and the length I use is 4,5m. This only allows me to fish 6-8m in front of me depending on the depth I fish. I use weighted floats and then use the appropriate split shot with the same weight as my float or a sliding sinker similar to an egg sinker  or a fixed sinker built around a swivel with the appropriate weight ie. 1b, 2b, 5b etc. I will post some pics of my floats, sinkers (not the split shot), my two most successful traces, and my rod and rod holder when i figure out how to. Hope this helps.
 
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