Blackfishing Floats

[Roffo]

Hi Raiders,

Getting ready for a bit of luderick fishing and want to know what the general consensus on having a fixed or sliding float (What type of float stopper).

What are the pros and cons ???????

Cheers

Roffo

[Guest]

Hi Raiders,

Getting ready for a bit of luderick fishing and want to know what the general consensus on having a fixed or sliding float (What type of float stopper).

What are the pros and cons ???????

Cheers

Roffo

Sliding and those neat little things that have the stopper on them on a wire ring are great for adjusting your depths to suit tides and diffferent places.

Easier to land fish as well as the float is closer to the fish than the rod tip

Cheers Stewy.

Fixed tend to be long and get twisted up a lot and with a sliding one you can even wind the stopper through the runners for easy storage.

[roosterman]

Sliding and those neat little things that have the stopper on them on a wire ring are great for adjusting your depths to suit tides and diffferent places.

Easier to land fish as well as the float is closer to the fish than the rod tip

Cheers Stewy.

Fixed tend to be long and get twisted up a lot and with a sliding one you can even wind the stopper through the runners for easy storage.

stewy your on the money there mate...

i also use those littly rubber stoppers on the wire loops... tooooo easy..i used to use woll for stoppers but is much easier with the rubber ones..... they are very cheap also...

make sure the float is weighted correctly also......

cheers...steve.....

[gretsch]

You would be crazy to use anything else! Those little rubber jobbies are very convenient.

The spots I am fishing I find you have to adjust your depth initially to find the fish and then, keep adjusting as the tide changes. Having a fixed float would mean many re-rigs and this would really piss me off.

[arpie]

Hi Roffo

I concur with Stewy & Steve - 'specially if you are fishing deeper water. An adjustable float covers all the depths whereas A fixed float can be a bit difficult to cast as well, as the weight is further up the line. WHen you cast with the sliding float, usually, the weights stay down the bottom with the float initially & then the float slides up the line a bit, preventing the trace from getting wrapped around the float.

Sliding float = best of both worlds! However, some folk swear by their fixed floats! If you want to, Try both!

Cheerio

Roberta

[Roffo]

Thanks Gang,

I'm picking up a slight lean towards a sliding float then lol.

Does everybody use braid these days because of the floating properties and if so what size??

What do these stoppers look like and is it a home made thing ??

Thanks heaps for your help.

Cheers

Roffo

[arpie]

Hi Roffo

I know that Stewy & I do - some still prefer mono, but you would need to grease it to make it float, whereas braid floats anyway!

Sometimes, I find the rubber stoppers aren't 'snug' enough on braid & the float will 're set' itself ..... I usually use a bit of thicker fishing line as my stopper (good on braid, not good on mono.) Just do a 'uni knot' with at least 5 turns & it holds the float position well.

Check out this thread for lots of tips to assist you

http://fishraider.com.au/Invision/index.ph...c=23679&hl=

Good luck

Cheerio

ROberta

[Roffo]

Thanks Roberta,

That is the hand book of hand books (brilliant).

I did load up with 3kg mono but might have to rethink.

I'm contemplating 6kg braid as a main using 4kg mono between the swivels and maybe a 2 or 3 kg mono trace to the hook.

Can't wait to give it a go now.

Cheers

Roffo

[Guest]

We use 30 to 40lb braid and all terminals are on that ie float stopper,float,split shots and small swivel or ring and then a short peice of 3 kg mono around 2 feet with a #no 8 greem mustard sneck hook and if you get snagged you only ever lose your small bit of trace and hook.

The braid is great for managing your line belly in the wind and you can get direct strike on your float even at 30 or 40 mtrs.

I always used to use mono but now am truly converted to the heavy braid and it is so easy to see unlike mono IMHO.

Not really sporting but it does what I want and handles most Blackies with ease and you dont normally need a landing net as you can haul the blackies straight out of the water with little fear of gear breakage except on really big fish over 40 cms.

Cheers Stewy

[gretsch]

I am using 20lb braid only because I had some left over after spooling up another reel. The braid is great. You can see it, it floats, the ond mono line belly is eliminated and you can use a slightly shorter rod. I use a nine footer which suits me. The really long rods I find cumbersome.

I rig the same as Stewy. I use fluro as a trace and as I mostly target Surgeons, I tend to use 15lb. I find I still catch plenty of blackfish despite the heavy trace. With the braid, I only lose the whole rig if a Surgeon bricks me on the barnacles of the structure. Like Stewy says, the trace pops before anything else 99% of the time.

[luderick59]

i dont think itmatters fixed or running unless you are fishing deeper than your rod length then i would fish a running float

tried braid once but lost a lot of big fish due to hook pulling out [lack of stretch]

i use snieder 6lb straight through

peter