John Keane
Well-known member
Seems that these are outmoded and hardly used these days. Good, says I, as they can have the element of surprise/novelty.
I was fishing with a mate on our (very nice) club water and getting some decent fish on the margin pole and also fishing at around 9m on corn.
I had a tip rod in with a method feeder, normally a banker and, after frequent re-casting, hadn’t had a fish on it in 4 hours.
There were carp cruising round but couldn’t get them interested up in the water on pellet and, being a cr@p exponent of the pellet waggler, had a root round in my box and came out with a Baggin’ Waggler, which is basically a channel-buoy sized float with a spring cage in the ar$e.
Set it up with a banded pellet on a 6” hook length and moulded some of my Method micros around the cage, cast out, sank the line, put the baitrunner on and settled down to wait. The wait lasted about 5 seconds before the float vanished and the rod slammed round with the baitrunner humming.
Long story short, 18 carp and F1s in a sweltering afternoon.
Called in at my local tackle shop on the way home to see if he had any I could get for spares in case I lost my solitary offering.
Cue gales of laughter (they’re all matchmen) and enquiries such as “What the f*** do you want that for, no one’s used them for 10 years?”
A root through the archives unearthed two of said floats which I bought whilst mumbling, “I might give them a go sometime” Not being into casting pearls before swine, I didn’t mention my Red-Letter Day!
I was fishing with a mate on our (very nice) club water and getting some decent fish on the margin pole and also fishing at around 9m on corn.
I had a tip rod in with a method feeder, normally a banker and, after frequent re-casting, hadn’t had a fish on it in 4 hours.
There were carp cruising round but couldn’t get them interested up in the water on pellet and, being a cr@p exponent of the pellet waggler, had a root round in my box and came out with a Baggin’ Waggler, which is basically a channel-buoy sized float with a spring cage in the ar$e.
Set it up with a banded pellet on a 6” hook length and moulded some of my Method micros around the cage, cast out, sank the line, put the baitrunner on and settled down to wait. The wait lasted about 5 seconds before the float vanished and the rod slammed round with the baitrunner humming.
Long story short, 18 carp and F1s in a sweltering afternoon.
Called in at my local tackle shop on the way home to see if he had any I could get for spares in case I lost my solitary offering.
Cue gales of laughter (they’re all matchmen) and enquiries such as “What the f*** do you want that for, no one’s used them for 10 years?”
A root through the archives unearthed two of said floats which I bought whilst mumbling, “I might give them a go sometime” Not being into casting pearls before swine, I didn’t mention my Red-Letter Day!
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