Sconezone V Series Floats Reveiw

Well first of all, a massive thanks to Sconey for both running the competition, and thanks for picking me out of the bag as winner!! Double bonus!!


First ImpressionsI’ve been using the current range of Sconezone floats for a while now, and have a very successful winter with Jublees and Ninjaz and more – I’ve become totally confident with them and believe they comfortably up there with the best on the market – so when this new range came about, I thought they’ve got to be something special.

First thing out the tube, was the wow factor, spangly red and black paint job with sparkly bits on it – looking beyond the prettiness though, power and strength immediately becomes obvious – the paint job is solid, fairly thick I’d say but will not let water in (not that any leaking water will have any effect what so ever due to the foam construction) – the floats feel very light, again due to the foam, and there is evidence of great construction with hints of glue coming out at a joint or two, and the stem visible through the glowing tips. It aint gonna fall apart. And the double wound eye will totally eliminate any issues with spring eyes cutting line, an issue I’ve suffered with in the past on all sorts of floats.

The Test
With all these dreams of power and toughness, the obvious way to put them to the test is to catch some fish on em!! So the plan was an evening assault at my local Moorlands farm fishery. It’s a fishery I’ve not spent a massive amount of time at, but I’m spoilt for choice within a 40 minute radius of Worcester with acres and acres of water – but an evening session and the possibility of some ‘hawses’ tipped the balance in Moorlands favor this weekend. Next job to rig the floats up

V6

First onto a winder was the 0.2g and 0.3g V6 – its predecessor the Jublees has been my number one go to shallow float, so this is how it was to be set-up. The tip length is bang on to give just enough bristle to be able to read liners and guzzunders, the stem length gives just enough stability to help the rig ship smoothly and not tangle.
Both floats were rigged up to 0.16 mainline and would be attached to a 0.16 hooklength with a 16 Drennan match carp and mini bait band hair rigged to the hook.
The 0.2g had a small bulk of no.10’s directly under the float with 1 no.10 dropper and the rig set to fish a maximum of 18 inches deep
The 0.3g float had 3 no.9’s directly under the float and 2 no.10 droppers below that and set to fish at around 3ft deep

V8

I’m a huge fan of slim floats and have dabbled with my own home made versions, but this floats takes all that need to mess about away as it’s the perfect package.
A slim hollow bristle gives great sensitivity, but you’ll easily see it at distance and will hold its own in a chop. The slim body gives minimal resistance to a feeding fish and the slim flexible stem gives the whole float the right balance.
This was destined to be my deck pellet rig, so was rigged up to 0.16 mainline and would be attached to a 0.14 hooklength and size 16 T213 hook.
All three sizes of float would be shotted with my favorite strung bulk wit the last shot around 10-11 inches from the hook – this gives the bait a nice slow fall through the last 18 inches of water ,but ensures the rig settles immediately and you don’t have to wait for dropper shot to settle. You can drop the last shot down to give a quicker fall if necessary or all the shot can be bulked on the hooklength know if your bagging.

V12

Well this a brute of a float, big high vis tip, thick solid stem and nice tear drop body – this survive the worst a shire horse could throw at it, or any reed bed a wonky donkey could drag it through.
This is going to be my meat/corn float for the 5m line and any beasties
Rigged up to 0.18 mainline and an 0.18 hooklength with a 14 B911 X-strong, I’m not taking any prisoners on this rig – shotted with a bulk and 3 droppers, its positive rig to get down there, settle and ready to disappear. Double corn or meat will sort out the proper fish

The Session

Getting to moorlands we watch the last 45 minutes of the open on meadow pool, only to find out the evening open will be on Bank and Moors – great start – having a look over the actual match pools, the two clubs seem to be having a hard time of it, but plenty of fish moving on the surface I wasn’t to worried at all.
A 4pm draw will see us fishing 4.45 till 9pm – not long to set-up, but with rigs done and bait prepared it should be long enough. Talking of bait I took 2 pints of corn, a tin of meat and 2 pints of fishery pellets took me to my 5 pint match limit.
The plan of attack was a long pellet line deep (with the V8) and shallow (with the V6’s), a 5m meat and corn line (with the V12’s) and a margin line (with my trusted Sconezone Samurai’s). The bag of dreams put me on Moors 5, the peg I drew the last time I made it to moorlands – that match gave me 50-3-0 for a match second, so I certainly wasn’t unhappy – but with 11 anglers over the 2 pools we all had loads of room, so I wasn’t really bothered where I drew.

On the whistle a decent pot of pellet went onto the long line, a pot of corn with some meat on the 5m ine and a proper pot of corn with some meat and pellet went in the margin in front of the pallet to my right(easiest for me being a left hander) Straight out onto the long pellet line deep, the fizzing had started and I was pinging from the off to get em shallow – 3 minutes in and a skimmer of 10oz gets me off the mark, but I’m already getting liners – once the float, in fact all the floats were shotted, they didn’t need any adjustment to the shotting what so ever – they sat perfectly.
Next chuck an F1 finds its way to the net, but that’s it for that line – the constant pinging see’s fish all through the water column so its out with the shallow rigs after ½ an hour. Starting on the 3ft deep rig its obvious there are fish there – the float sits perfectly with most of the bristle showing once its fully settled and the pellet is down to its deepest – 1 carp of 4lb and a skimmer see their way to the net over the next 30 minutes – an hour in and it’s a slow sport. The margin has been topped up twice since the whistle so a quick look see the first proper carp of 8lb in the net on double meat, but no more bites follow – it doesn’t seem right and everyone else is sitting in the margin with not much action.
Back out shallow and the rest of the match flows nicely – I’m getting enough fish to keep me interested and enough fish to keep me ahead of everyone else on the pool who are fishing the margins – I land 3 proper ghosties and a couple of big mirrors that go mad in the net, all over the rig and float and I fear the worst – but no, the float survives the session as sparkly as it starts it!!! All of the floats have survived a bit of a bashing and come out the other in perfect nick – not sure I can think of anything bar a hammer that will break them!
The whistle goes and I’ve enjoyed the match – the scales come round and 90lb is winning and I don’t think I’ve got that – but 3 weighs later and I’ve got 91-12-0 to take the match – pretty much all down to the V6!!!!!
Last word – got some empty winders, guess what’s going on them!!! a great range of floats that perfectly suit modern commercial match fishing and most variations of fishing that we undertake on all commercials - very very highly recommended