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[Jewelz]

This might be a simple question with a simple answer, but my curiosity has got me... How do people lose their floats on the river? I have been fishing the last 2 years with the same float as far as i can remember...

[Brian the fisherman]

they don't secure it properly, and when main line snaps. off goes the float. Or some are just using the wrap around float. and when main line snaps it simply slips out.

[Jewelz]

Isn't it rare for the main line to snap off above the float? I can see it coming off where its tied to the swivel, but then you would still have your float.

[leapin' tyee]

This might be a simple question with a simple answer, but my curiosity has got me... How do people lose their floats on the river? I have been fishing the last 2 years with the same float as far as i can remember...

Fish too deep or poor main line etc...

[kid fisherman]

I do not see it as losing a float, but as helping Chris out

[Stratocaster]

Trees!  Nuf said.

[Dave]

I do not see it as losing a float, but as helping Chris out

Yeah, the old guy needs more floats ...

[HOOK]

pure laziness with changing out the main line 


HOOK - I tend to forget to change my mainline once or twice a season because i fly fish more than gear. this thread reminds me that my current mainline is 2 seasons old 

[Noahs Arc]

Poor knots, trees, using toothpicks to peg floats. ( lost it all on a fish after a drought, switched to bobber stoppers the next day)

[FlyFishin Magician]

Trees!  Nuf said.

You're telling me!!!  Remember back in 2010 when I lost something like 3 or 4 Drennans to a tree in a single outing?  OUCH!  But that's where the fish were holding and we each limited out on big coho!  Contrast that to this year where I've been using the same Drennan piker since October 8.  Probably around a dozen or so trips since then...

[SteelheadAdict]

i use tooth picks and i rarely loos floats its also due to people not changing main line and then people using heaveyer leader then main line

[FlyFishin Magician]

Not changing your mainline is definitely a factor.  However, hooking a tree is really bad news - particularly if your mainline manages to catch a branch or two.   

[Electroman]

Digging in my pocket to get something out of the bottom and out they come and very quickly down river.

[adriaticum]

This might be a simple question with a simple answer, but my curiosity has got me... How do people lose their floats on the river? I have been fishing the last 2 years with the same float as far as i can remember...

Jewelz,
Are you catching many fish?
I would guess not.
You are obviously not one of those guys who drag their rig across the bottom and that's a good thing.

People lose their floats several ways.
First if you are not close to the bottom, you are not in the fish zone.
If you are, then chances are you will get snagged up every once in a while and it will break off at the wrong spot. Rocks, branches, trees.
I've lost floats by simply setting the hook when the float dips and it was actually the bottom. It happens with the odd fish hookup too.
And second over time your line will develop knicks and it will break above the swivel.
If this happens then you know you have to change your main line.

Some people will also not use proper weight leaders and their main line will be equal of smaller than the leader size. Which is wrong.
I use 12 lb main line and I do lose the odd float for sure. If I'm using a 10lb leader sometimes my line will break above the float.
The other day on the Squamish I lost a clear drift because it got snagged into a tree on the other bank.

Also not every cast is perfect and if you are taking risks with your rig and casting just before that tree, you might mess it up.

I've never really cared if I lose rigs and never really wasted time on trying to salvage them.
I have enough gear on me so I just snap it off, re-tie and continue fishing. I find some people leave their spot go to the bank, sit down, open their tackle box to re-tie.
You have to have everything on you.
You have to take risks chucking that gear.

[Jewelz]

Maybe it's because I use a rubber stopper on the top and bottom of my float. My mainline would have to break above the float in order for me to lose it... I figured that's how ur suppose to set up ur float.