george387
Well-known member
- Points
- 38
- Location
- Bedale North Yorkshire
This year its the turn of cancer again as my charity donation and a few weeks ago I set about dusting off the lathe and turning some floats. Instead of the normal half dozen floats and a box I decided to broaden it this year to a 50/50 between trotting and fly fishing.
The trotting side of things I decided to keep my hand in so I set about making these from scratch and decided for the paint job it was going to be simple but attractive. These are the first floats I've made in almost 12 months, and there wont be many more made for anyone else so if you want some of my work you better start bidding. The winning bidder can have their name put on them if they so wish.
These will suffice any angler out during the winter months in pursuit of the Lady of the Stream & into the Brown Trout season where a float fished worm will take an early trout or two.
The fly fishing side of it Ive covered with making 3 furled leaders, two with built in indicators for nymph / spider fishing and one without for dry fly purposes.
Originating from the legendary Rod Dibble, Steven Dawson (AKA Mr Trout) took me under his wing and taught me all I needed to know about furled leader making and the tapers so I feel its only right this year that a couple of these are put to good use, so that completes the 50/50 split for charity.
These are now live on the Lets tackle cancer Facebook page, as a few guys who wanted to bid are not forum members so please if you want to bid do it via the facebook page. Thank you.......https://www.facebook.com/LetsTackleCancer/
The trotting side of things I decided to keep my hand in so I set about making these from scratch and decided for the paint job it was going to be simple but attractive. These are the first floats I've made in almost 12 months, and there wont be many more made for anyone else so if you want some of my work you better start bidding. The winning bidder can have their name put on them if they so wish.
These will suffice any angler out during the winter months in pursuit of the Lady of the Stream & into the Brown Trout season where a float fished worm will take an early trout or two.
The fly fishing side of it Ive covered with making 3 furled leaders, two with built in indicators for nymph / spider fishing and one without for dry fly purposes.
Originating from the legendary Rod Dibble, Steven Dawson (AKA Mr Trout) took me under his wing and taught me all I needed to know about furled leader making and the tapers so I feel its only right this year that a couple of these are put to good use, so that completes the 50/50 split for charity.
These are now live on the Lets tackle cancer Facebook page, as a few guys who wanted to bid are not forum members so please if you want to bid do it via the facebook page. Thank you.......https://www.facebook.com/LetsTackleCancer/
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