What kind of float is easy to use? In terms of convenience and convenience, just buy a commercial float, but in terms of practicality, some homemade floats can win unanimous praise from fishing friends. Why? Because the homemade float eats less lead and sinks slowly in the water. After being thrown into the water, it sinks slowly like a slow motion, giving the fish enough time to find the bait. Therefore, fishing friends who like traditional fishing are interested. You might as well try making your own. Today in this issue, we will talk about the detailed steps of making your own "Chicken Feather Seven Star Float". After you use it, you can see which one is better than the commercial float.
1. Prepare materials and tools
As the old saying goes Good: Do it yourself and have enough food and clothing. It is not difficult to make the chicken feather seven-star float. Lets first find a few chicken feather stems (duck or goose feathers are acceptable, but chicken feathers are more common), a sharp blade, a sewing needle, fishing line, and a pair of pliers.
2. Making chicken feathers in powder form
From chicken Choose chicken feathers with thicker white stems at the tip of the wings, clean the dirt on the surface, and then dry them in the sun (note: do not scald them with boiling water, because scalding them with boiling water will destroy the wax film on the surface of the stems over time. (will turn yellow and affect the clarity of viewing), then use a blade to gently scrape off the hair on both sides along the direction of the feather. Remember not to damage the outer skin of the feather stem, and do not scrape backwards, otherwise it will easily damage both sides of the feather stem. surface layer.
In addition, because each feather stalk is thick at one end and thin at the other, in order to keep each float of the loose floating fishing group as similar in thickness as possible, it is necessary to prepare a few more feather stalks with similar overall thickness. Remove the head and tail and keep a section in the middle that is similar in thickness, and then cut into several sections of about 1 cm in length for later use.
3. Thread the fishing line
Take a thinner one To use a sewing needle, thread one end of the fishing line you selected as you normally do, then take a piece of chicken feather and pass the needle through the middle of one end to the other. When the needle comes out, use pliers to pull out the needle tip and pull it out hard. The grain float is ready, and the other six are put on in the same way, and the seven-star float is ready. You can also put on a few more, which is more convenient to use at multiple fishing spots with different water depths. The method They are all the same, very much like a necklace.
After putting on the float, in order to make the float and the fishing line more closely combined, you can use a toothpick close to the fishing line and penetrate it into the float, so that the float will be It is no longer easy to slide on the fishing line.
4. Binding hooks for the online group
Cut off the remaining fishing line threads when threading and floating, cut a piece of fuse and wrap it side by side on the sewing needle. After wrapping it, take it out and thread it into the thread group. Tie the fishhook and soak it in the water. The float on the line group will become tighter, and the chicken feather seven-star float is done!
