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  2. Fishing float - Wikipedia

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    Fishing rod float. Lake Baikal. Eastern Siberia. It is impossible to say with any degree of accuracy who first used a float for indicating that a fish had taken the bait, but it can be said with some certainty that people used pieces of twig, bird feather quills or rolled leaves as bite indicators, many years before any documented evidence.

  3. Blackburn B-20 - Wikipedia

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    The Blackburn B-20 was an experimental aircraft, first flying in 1940, that attempted to drastically increase the performance of flying boat designs. Blackburn Aircraft undertook an independent design study based on a patent filed by their chief designer, John Douglas Rennie [1] for a retractable pontoon float that formed the planing hull.

  4. Angling - Wikipedia

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    Float fishing is the most common method of angling, defined by the use of a compact light buoy attached to fishing line – known as a float (or "bobber" in the United States) — as the bite indicator. Due to buoyancy, the float remains at the water surface and suspends the baited hook at a predetermined depth.

  5. Bite indicator - Wikipedia

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    Fishing floats: lightweight buoys widely used as bite indicators. Floats oscillate in and out of the water surface when the hook suspended below is pulled by fish biting the hookbait . They are usually "cocked" by different split shot weights so that just the brightly coloured tip of the float is showing above the surface.

  6. Gillnetting - Wikipedia

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    Gillnetting is a fishing method that uses gillnets: vertical panels of netting that hang from a line with regularly spaced floaters that hold the line on the surface of the water. The floats are sometimes called "corks" and the line with corks is generally referred to as a "cork line." The line along the bottom of the panels is generally weighted.

  7. Centerpin fishing - Wikipedia

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    Centerpin fishing, also called float fishing or center pin fishing, is a fishing technique which uses a centerpin rod, a centerpin reel, and Roe, or an artificial fly. The method is used for steelhead fishing in fresh water , and is currently popular with freshwater salmon anglers who drift floats downstream.

  8. Pellet waggler - Wikipedia

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    Pellet waggler float made by the J-Range company. A pellet waggler is a small, dumpy float used for fishing. It is suited for any small particle baits, [1] but can also be used for larger baits such as cut cubes of meat. Its main use is to present a bait near the surface of the water, usually in the top 60 cm.

  9. World Freshwater Angling Championships - Wikipedia

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    The World Freshwater Angling Championships is a freshwater angling competition.Participating countries fish in teams of five with titles awarded to the team with the fewest points, the competition area is split into sections and the winner with the most weight will be awarded one point, two for second, three for third, at the end of the two days the team with the least points is the top team.