I remember getting tangles quite often as a kid with balsa floats and still get a fair few nowadays with wagglers. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Supplied with both black and clear silicone, you can use the black with carbon stems and the clear for wire.

A lot of kids and beginners want to start off rod and line fishing with a float attached top and bottom with float rubbers because the first old book they pick up from the library shows a porcupine quill fixed in this manner around the 1960s in Mr Crabtree style. The screws supplied would not do the job and I don’t think they would not work to the required standard in softwood, certainly not in a hardwood. The only time I would ever use a float,probably a small piece of peacock quill,fixed top and bottom would be to fish it flat on the surface which can still be a very good method in the right conditions when you do not want to use a pole although it has been used on the pole too. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

They fit well when warm, even if that means that I have to rub them in my hands to warm up, but when cold, they act more like plastic.

I was suspicious of these at first, but in 10 or so years of using them, I've never yet lost a float by casting it off the adaptor.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Sign up here to receive marketing communications from GO Outdoors Retail Limited (t/a Fishing Republic). I'm going to use the old method again, after a gap of 36 years, on silvers over the winter periods matches that start in 2 weeks! Unfortunately let down bu the quality of the screws, not the best, slot for screwdriver not very well machined. It is fine for fishing under the rod top but not very good at any distance because the float will be easily moved by the wind and you have to strike through the float to connect with a bite,both things a waggler will do much better which is why bottom end floats are almost universally used in the UK for rod and line fishing.