These are the best floats available for Pelagic species hunting, even for three times the price, and I wish I could say that I manufacture them myself. They come from South Africa and are made with the very high crush resistance, low weight PVC foam that is used in “Divynicell”. They’re good to over 200 feet depth without crushing. The tough outer rubberized coating is the same material used for inflatable boats. The attaching straps at both ends have been tested well beyond any tension you would reasonably expect to encounter.

    Each float weighs only two pounds and will provide 22 pounds of buoyancy. They can be strung together in series for hunting the largest pelagic species, so that three of these floats on a 50 to 100 foot bungi line make an inexpensive and very transportable Yellow Fin Tuna rig. I think that these floats are even superior to the glassed Divynicell board type floats because they are so much lighter to carry, float higher in the water for visibility, and have less drag while towing.

A few words about inflatable floats:

     Inflatable floats sold by some manufacturers are great for convenience but are liable to cause two major problems when used with large strong Pelagic fish. Most inflatables are initially too buoyant; they offer too much resistance to being pulled under water. Many fish are capable of pulling several hundred pounds of resistance and can break terminal tackle or rip the tip out if too much resistance is applied. It’s like locking the drag up on your fishing reel. Second, if the crimps,snaps and tip do hold solid and the fish pulls the inflatable down, the float starts getting smaller and less buoyant immediately. It gets easier and easier for the fish the deeper the float submerges and the chances of you seeing your shaft, tip, line and float again get less and less. If you make the float bigger, (more buoyant), it makes the first problem worse; if you go smaller; it makes the second problem worse!