Russell Brown Floats
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2022 10:26 am
As a fairly new member Russell has racked up a fair number of interesting posts on several subjects, which have had plenty of response.What hasn't come out of these, unless I have missed them, is that he is a float maker of note.
Not sure of the dates, as these days years seem to fly by, but is must be well over 10 years since I acquired some of his floats. I liked them so much I contacted him to make me a range of Nottingham (Brookes) Sliders, which I still have and have used while perching. We met just once at a very early Romsey Tackle Fair.
His floats were so well thought of that a couple appeared in Hooked on Floats alongside other great makers (Page 412). I know Andrew Field appreciated his work and he had some of his floats in his collection. I asked him to make me more but he fell off the radar and stopped making them. When I contacted him recently he told me the reason. I think that was the wrong decision but I will leave him to comment on that if he wishes.
Welcome Russell
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Not sure of the dates, as these days years seem to fly by, but is must be well over 10 years since I acquired some of his floats. I liked them so much I contacted him to make me a range of Nottingham (Brookes) Sliders, which I still have and have used while perching. We met just once at a very early Romsey Tackle Fair.
His floats were so well thought of that a couple appeared in Hooked on Floats alongside other great makers (Page 412). I know Andrew Field appreciated his work and he had some of his floats in his collection. I asked him to make me more but he fell off the radar and stopped making them. When I contacted him recently he told me the reason. I think that was the wrong decision but I will leave him to comment on that if he wishes.
Welcome Russell
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