What are these floats for...?
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Mark
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Re: What are these floats for...?
What a lovely selection Snape. :thumb:
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Re: What are these floats for...?
They look like a Billy Lane 'Trent Trotter' type float to me. Very similar to a Chubber, but fished bottom end only for less disturbance on the strike in fast, shallow water.
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Re: What are these floats for...?
Hi Chaps,
These are my Whitehouse floats made for me from 1993 & 2000. I think that when he was making floats he was arguably the best maker in England.
Has that baton now been handed on to Andrew Field?
Bob
These are my Whitehouse floats made for me from 1993 & 2000. I think that when he was making floats he was arguably the best maker in England.
Has that baton now been handed on to Andrew Field?
Bob
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Re: What are these floats for...?
Lovely floats and I would have to agree with the general concensus that they are chubber orientated, the problem with float makers is that we all add our own way of doing things or changing body shapes and the float goes through that many variations that it looses it original identity at times.
CP put that they look like the Billy lane Trent trotter but if you look at Billy's floats they dont resemble the one shown at all, but that doesn't say that they weren't designed for the same job just depends who the maker was and what he intended them for.
CP put that they look like the Billy lane Trent trotter but if you look at Billy's floats they dont resemble the one shown at all, but that doesn't say that they weren't designed for the same job just depends who the maker was and what he intended them for.
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Re: What are these floats for...?
Actually Billy Lane didn't quite fish those floats bottom end only..he fished them with the line BOTH sides of the float joined together by one big split-shot.
It all came about when he broke the stem of an Avon float by mistake, he wrote.
He fished the remaining body as I've indicated and won a match catching tiny roach in a very shallow peg. He also produced a larger version called the Trout Trotter.
Both were indeed intended as extreme shallow water floats.
It all came about when he broke the stem of an Avon float by mistake, he wrote.
He fished the remaining body as I've indicated and won a match catching tiny roach in a very shallow peg. He also produced a larger version called the Trout Trotter.
Both were indeed intended as extreme shallow water floats.