fishing float

A fishing float or bobber is a lightweight buoy used in angling, usually attached to a fishing line. Angling with a float is sometimes called float fishing. A float can serve several purposes: * firstly, it serves as a visual bite indicator that helps the angler assess underwater status of the baited hook and decide whether to start retrieving the line; * secondly, it can suspend the hook and bait at a predetermined depth, which helps the angler target fish in specific depths; * thirdly, as a terminal tackle, it adds mass and allows the hook and bait to be cast further against air resistance; * and lastly, due to its buoyancy, it can carry the baited hook to otherwise inaccessible areas of water by drifting along the prevailing current.

A fishing float or bobber is a lightweight buoy used in angling, usually attached to a fishing line. Angling with a float is sometimes called float fishing. A float can serve several purposes: firstly, it serves as a visual bite indicator that helps the angler assess underwater status of the baited hook and decide whether to start retrieving the line; secondly, it can suspend the hook and bait at a predetermined depth, which helps the angler target fish in specific depths; thirdly, as a terminal tackle, it adds mass and allows the hook and bait to be cast further against air resistance; and lastly, due to its buoyancy, it can carry the baited hook to otherwise inaccessible areas of water by drifting along the prevailing current. ==Types== Floats come in different sizes and shapes, and can be made from various materials, such as foam, balsa wood, cork, plastic, Indian sarkanda reed, or even bird/porcupine quills. ===Avon=== The Avon float is a straight float with a body at the top. It was designed to cope with the fast flow conditions of the English River Avon. Many early floats were Avon style having a cork body pushed onto a crow quill. It is attached to the line top and bottom. ===Bubble=== Bubble floats are small hollow balls which are used to control the fishing line. They may have the facility to be partially filled with water to control how much float is above the water. They are used in situations where a normal float cannot be cast, such as working close to the edge of reeds or heavy surface plant growth. The bubble float can be allowed to drift into the area without tangling. ===Dink=== The Dink Float is most commonly made of a cylinder of dark foam with a smaller cylinder of cork on the top painted for indicator. The line is run through the top, wrapped around the cylinder and through the bottom. The primary advantage is that the float does not need a stopper on the main line. The wrap of line between the top and bottom of the float will hold it in place. ===Popper=== A popper float, commonly called a 'popping cork', is designed to mimic a large fish feeding at the surface with rod action. There are different styles of popper floats. Some use a metal wire with beads at each end to make a clicking noise when pulled through the water, while more modern floats use a concave top, which makes a deep chugging sound when pulled through the water, imitating the sound of large predator fish feeding at the surface. Some popping corks also have pellets inside, designed to mimic bait fish jumping at the surface when rattled. ===Quill=== The quill is one of the earliest floats. It was originally a bird feather quill, but with the opening up of new worlds, porcupine quills from Africa became a standard for the float. It is fished in the same way as a stick float. ===Self-cocking=== Self-cocking floats can be of many styles, but they are all weighted so that in the water they automatically stand upright without the use of shot or weights on the fishing line. ===Stick=== The Stick Float is a straight float with a taper. It is always attached to the line both top and bottom. They are made from two different materials, a light, buoyant top section of balsa wood and a heavy stem of hard grade cane, non-buoyant hardwood, or plastic. Unlike the Avon float, the stick has no body; it is just a tapered rod. ===Waggler=== A waggler float is the term given to any float which is attached only at the bottom to the line. They come in two different types, straight or bodied. These two types can come both with and without inserts (antennas). They are made from a variety of materials including quills (such as peacock), balsa wood, cane, plastic and reed. ===With direction control=== Floats with direction control change direction by planing or moving to one side when given a tug. ==Notes==

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