John,
I was hoping you would do an article on the stick float, and it wasn't disapointing.
after you doing the posting the other week, I was on the Dane the other day, where a chap was float fishing. I asked if he would mind if I sat and watched, to which he said he didn't mind at all. He was catching chub, roach, barbel, and dace. There were some beauties amongst them. When he left, he gave me about a pint of caster, but I only had my avon top with me.
I did find a wire stemmed stick float and shotted it with metal putty, onto 8lb line and a 16 hook (a bodge job) but it worked,as I caught 1 chub and 1 barbel plus loads of minnows, and I hope to go this weekend with decent tackle.
Your article is just the prompt I needed.
I hope you will do more, many thanks.