{"id":1754,"date":"2018-09-28T10:12:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T09:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2018-10-15T10:25:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T09:25:02","slug":"rigging-up-with-malman-floats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=1754","title":{"rendered":"Rigging Up With Malman Floats"},"content":{"rendered":"

White Acres is fast approaching, so time for the obligatory \u2018look at my lovingly tied pole rigs\u2019 album! Other than a few shallow specials, 90% of my rigs now sport handmade Malman Floats<\/a> designs.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve owned some of Gaz\u2019s creations for years and cannot fault them. Near-indestructible, some with titanium stems rather than wire, no spring eyes to catch in the surface tension and only a little sheen of paint on their extra-tough foam bodies. That\u2019s a big advantage compared to shop-bought balsas that could have as much as six coats of acrylic paint to toughen them up. It also means Malman Floats<\/a> stay nice and small yet they take plenty of shot. He\u2019s even fashioned a chunky little design called a Mojo just for me!<\/p>\n

I currently use the following:<\/p>\n

Carbon Roobs<\/strong> (2mm hollow tip and carbon stem)<\/em> on 0.20mm and 0.18mm main lines for big carp and big baits.<\/p>\n

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Dusty Titans<\/strong> (1.5mm hollow tip and titan stem)<\/em> on 0.16mm main line for small carp and F1s in good conditions.<\/p>\n

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Dolphin Titans<\/strong> (1.5mm hollow tip and titan stem)<\/em> on 0.18mm main line for general carp in choppy conditions.<\/p>\n

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Secrets<\/strong> (1mm plastic tip and carbon stem)<\/em> on 0.14mm and 0.16mm main line for silverfish and F1s.<\/p>\n

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Mojos<\/strong> (2mm hollow tip and glass stem)<\/em> on 0.18mm and 0.20mm main lines for margin, island and shallow work.<\/p>\n

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Happiness is a tray full of pole rigs, all nice and neatly lined up like soldiers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

White Acres is fast approaching, so time for the obligatory \u2018look at my lovingly tied pole rigs\u2019 album! Other than a few shallow specials, 90% of my rigs now sport handmade Malman Floats designs....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,63,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fishing-venues","category-rigs","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1760,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions\/1760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}