Questions About Using A Chinese Float

[MuskieBait]

Hm...looking at it, I would say you use a silicon sleeve (surgical tubing...etc) to secure the float to the line.

1) Thread the silicon sleeve onto your line

2) Thread the yellow portion of the float (at the end of the flexible rope part) onto the silicon sleeve

This allows your float to be adjusted to fish different depths by pulling that float up or down your line.

I would assume that the rope part of the float allows the float to adjust to different angles you line makes when a fish takes your bait. If a fish takes your bait and introduce slack, the line would be at a less steep angle. Your float can still bob upwards VERTICALLY when the line angle changes and the weight of the sinker on your line is negated (by the fish taking your bait upwards). If the fish pulls the line downward and introduce a steeper angle, the float and adjust to the steeper angle and still be pulled VERTICALLY downward.

The whole thing about this float moving vertically upward or downward is to...

1) Increase sensitivity

2) Reduce the chance of the fish feeling the resistance due to the movement or buoyancy of the float

This is a very slim float and it should slip up and down vertically in the water with very little resistance. That is why it can be very sensitive. If this float were to be dragged sideways, the stem of the float would introduce much more resistance in the water than if it was just sliding up and down vertically in the water.

Yes, that is Chinese writing...simplified Chinese to be exact...the two words in black is roughly pronounced as "Hing Fat"...together, it loosely mean "prosperity"...maybe that's the company or brand name. The insignia in red simulate a red engraved stamp and the word "engraved" is roughly pronounced as "Chiu"...and it loosely means "extra"...often used as an adjective. Not sure what it means in this context...perhaps "extra small"..."extra slim"...or perhaps "extra sensitive".