18" floats

[Fred]

I use waggler floats up to and over 18in long when fishing very deep water or at distance for Bream.
If the water is deep (12ft+) I fish it as a slider float, if I wont to fish at distance 20-30yd it gives me the weight to cast and has enough tip to see.

[JAA]

They remind me of two very long floats in "Hooked on Floats" (page 301/2) made for fishing deep sea swells - your might be good for a dam wall, deep water, in a choppy breeze, it's the sort of thing I'd want for such a spot.

The length gives them stability in waves that are in the top layers of the water - with plenty of buoyancy and weight low down, surface waves will simply roll over the tip, which will remain relatively static. I made a couple with cut-down dart vanes at the lower end as well, to keep the float still, to be fished as bottom eye sliders for such a water, but the trip never materialized.

[Sussex Micky]

I used and made floats like this years ago when I fished "carters gravel pit" here for Bream, it held big slab bream and it was so exposed that it was often like the sea with high waves..so it worked well