The AS3 has been pro?duced in-house by our own engin?eers with many months of fine tuning using the most up-to-date and advanced com?puter con?trolled pro?cesses and machinery cur?rently avail?able, res?ulting in a beau?ti?fully con?sistent and reli?able float. Alan has been using the floats extens?ively and is very happy with them, com?menting on their remark?able con?sist?ency and build qualy. The AS3 is pro?duced in a highly bouyant, light-grade balsa then given a spe?cial coating of our super tough acrylic paint that gives each float a pro?tective shell-like finish. Couple this with a strong carbon stem, bonded right into the body and a stain?less steel spring eye loc?ated at the base of the hollow tip and this all adds up to a very strong and dur?able float that won?t let you down. This pat?tern is designed for com?mer?cial fish?eries but can also be used suc?cess?fully on nat?ural waters too. With its slim pro?file body and sens?itive yet bright 1.2mm hollow tip, it provides little res?ist?ance to shy biting F1s, carp and sil?ver?fish and is per?fect for baits such as mag?gots, casters and expander pellets. Glow tips on AS pole floats are rein?forced through the sec?tion where they join the body. This strengthens the hollow buoyant tip at a crit?ical point and provides an extra strong found?a?tion for the eye. AS floats also fea?ture a double wound stain?less steel eye mounted at the base of the tip. Being placed here offers the mech?an?ic?ally strongest pos?i?tion without pier?cing the body, and risking water ingress, there?fore affecting the floats per?form?ance. Being double wound (i.e. the eye is fully round) means the line cannot get trapped and dam?aged as is often the case with con?ven?tional, single wound, U-shape eyes. These spe?cial eyes are also made of blackened stain?less steel to match the body, giving a more dis?tinct demarc?a?tion line to the glow tip, so bites are easier to spot! Available in 0.1g, 0.2g, 0.3g, 0.4g, 0.5g and 0.6g sizes.
