Floaties vs degies

B

Benbreda

New member
Good morning to all on this super cold morning!

Can I please have some advice as to the use of the different type of types of floates i.e poppers, bleeding, soft, maggots etc.

Under what conditions would you normally apply them.  And how do they they match up to the soft "degies" that we prepare ourselves  from flour or seminola?

Is it better to use plain and dip them or are the flavoured ones the way to go?

Tks
 
C

christodeb

Senior Member
I prefer to keep it simple. I have only two kinds of micro floats. A banjo and an fx for the fluorocene.
I usally fish doug only on the bottom hook and a float plus doug on the top hook. There is a good chance that the fish will take the bottom hook most of the time, so if the fish picks up the float on the top hook you know they want the float.
If i start loosing fish i will drop the float and change my presentation of the dough so that the hook is more proud.
The most importaint thing in this gane is to keep it simple and stick to the basics
 
S

Sharky2

Senior Member
Hey guys,did you guys see Hier gaan ons alweer last night?Schalk van breda explained why one uses a float with SWD.Was a great show,try to check the rerun if you didn't see it.
 
Naruto

Naruto

Sealiner
I always started out with a floatie with a dough backing. Recently I startd using just dough on the top hook and a floatie on the bottom. Some venues the dough gets picked up almost every time.
 
C

christodeb

Senior Member
In most instances the float with a bigger dough is to get the bait critically balanced. If you use a very small piece of dough the bait will lift off the bottom - provided you fish with 0.8 or smaller hooks.

I agree with Naruto that dough on it's own works very well in some dams. In Bloemhof i don't use floats anymore.
 
B

Benbreda

New member
Tks guys

The floaties( different types) come in all types of flavours. Keeping it simple eg to banjo and fx for instances would now leave you with all your other flavoured mutis. I am of the understading that your hookbaits should be some of the same flavour that is on or in the bol bait? So when the fish start breaking up the ball bait the hook baits are not totally different to those particles which could cause the fish to ignore the hookbaits? Should you to increase your chance of success stick to this thinking?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top