BB's carp float

[GloucesterOldSpot]

In 'Confessions Of A Carp Fisher' BB describes his favourite carp float as being "...grooved and twisted about the lower end, so the line only has to be taken a couple of times around the twist to secure it". Does anyone know what he meant by this?

The only possibilities I can think of are a) a wire spiral such as you used to find at each end of a Jardine lead, or b) a rotating slotted collar fitted over a thinner, similarly slotted core, the line being slid into both and the outer twisted through 180 degrees to secure it, rather like the method of attaching a Catherine lead.

If anyone knows what he meant I'd love to know.

[Snape]

Maybe one like Bob put a photo of here with the Jardine lead spirals
http://www.traditionalfisherman.co.uk/v ... 117&t=1705

[GloucesterOldSpot]

Maybe. I don't think so though - the description suggests something more imaginative. I don't for a moment expect it was a BB invention - much more likely to be a patented Hardy or Allcock design, but I haven't found any reference to what it might be.