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Night Floats for fishing come in many designs sizes and weights. the early floats used fluorescent paints but now Some use a battery others a chemical mix in a small tube which you break and mix up causing it to light up, they can be used for sea fishing or fresh water. This section will cover some of the fresh water floats available in the UK. This night float (number 1) uses a battery with optical fibre to indicate a bite, at 1.8g its light weight is good to show very delicate bites, Easy to fit to fishing line, it is used very similar to a Waggler float connected at the bottom only. using a float adapter so that it can be moved up or down the line easy. The weight of such floats varies 1g trough to say 5g and I would class them as light tackle floats for general fishing on still waters. The stem of the float has two aria's that light up, at the very tip of the stem is a small ball of light. This helps with bite indications showing better at the tip, it is easy to see in lowlight or darkness if you have normal vision. The way to correctly weight the float with split shot weights, is to have the last part of the stem sitting out of the water red strip, with the other strip green under the water, this will then show lift bites or sinking bites. some newer floats have a censor that changes the colour of the lights to show bites. in my own test of the float and battery a CR425 in cold water, it functioned for approximately 16 hours. And the float worked very well catching fish showing even the most delicate of bites.

Night float ( number 2) has a bigger body its also longer and its weight 4g is more than the first float. It only lights up at the end or tip of the float its a light and not fibre optic. I would class this as a Bobber float and I would connect the float to the line top and bottom. the correct way to weight the float is to just have the end and tip showing above the water using split shot weights. It also uses a CR425 battery and its bright and clear red light is easy to see, with normal vision, in low light and darkness. its also easier to cast farer from the bank with good control. The float indicates bites well on still waters, and is a good float in use. of course both of the floats can be scaled up or down in size and weights depending on various factors, the size of the intended fish, the weather, wind rain choppy water etc. My aim is to give a general view of night floats for this section only. The use of night floats is not of course limited to use only at night many days here in the UK are very dull in the winter months and these floats can aid your fishing greatly on such days. Being able to fish in the night using night floats is a good thing it opens up float fishing extends it and its a fun way to fish.

Light sticks used as floats or on top of an appropriate float are chemical lights. see diagram for details, they are very useful in there own right for low light or night fishing. but I tend to use them close into the bank myself set on top of a bigger float, they connect by a clear plastic tube, or some floats have a chamber that the stick sits inside, they are bright yellow green glowing lights easy to see. they come in different quality's some better than others, packs of one or two, or can be bought in say 50 or 100 boxed with rubbers. they can also indicate bites on rod tips using some form of ledger fishing. but my aim is to talk about night float fishing here. They last from several hours to much longer times depending on there quality give them a good shake from time to time to improve the light.

Fibreoptic night floats with a censor. These indicate bites lifting and dropping by changing the colour of the lights on the indicator stem. Red on the drop say and Green on the lift I have just got three of them and not used one yet. so i can only mention what I know for now.