Why do we....

[Ron 'The Hat' Clay (ACA)]

Sorry mate, "Swinging the Lead" comes from the old sailing days where a sailor who was marking the depth with a knotted rope used to waste time swinging it and not dropping the lead to the bottom.

 

[The Monk]

yeah but it sounded good though didnt it mate?

 

[Neneman Nick]

Never heard of a pole float called a bobber???
I do know that the old style grayling/perch bob floats are called bobbers by the yanks.

 

[Ron 'The Hat' Clay (ACA)]

I'm not a pole fishing expert Nick, but I am sure those little dome shaped floats are called "bobbers".

I remember reading years ago of a guy who went to the States and took with him some insert waggler floats. He caught tremendous quantities of crappies using worms for bait.

 

[Les Clark ( not too proud to nick a good idea fro]

You silly old sod Ron ,you are as bad as Baz , trying to get bites

 

[The Monk]

what was the traditional graying trotting float called? it was carrot shaped but came out long before the carrot float

 

[Trisantona]

A "Grayling Bob" pure and simple,!!most famously made by Harcour,they bobbed along in the streamy water preffered by Grayling.

 

[The Monk]

yeah thats it mate I`m sure!

 

[The Monk]

here they are pike and grayling bobs

http://www.jackfish.net/acatalog/On...obs___Bubble_Floats___Cork_Pike_Bungs_25.html