I hate losing gear in the ocean while fishing from my kayak. I've been tethering my rods for years to keep rods and the tethers are cumbersome.
I had some success with the 'pipe insulation' but when casting, the line would hit the insulation and reduced the distance of the cast. A pool noodle floats that looked like sausages just look so ugly. I decided to try an eccentric rod float.
An excentric float was needed that wouldn't impede the casting. So, I tried this out. I made it modular to be superglued together so that many rod sizes would work. I placed small piece of closed-cell foam between the float and the rod to limit damaging the rod.
I modeled rectangle holes in an arc so that I could use zip ties to attach the float to the rod.
The bottom of the float is designed for a 12mm diameter rod. The closed-cell foam helps with adjusting to other sizes and shouldn't cause damage to the rod if you don't crank down on the zip ties too hard.
To make this modular, you can create a rod float of any length just by printing more pieces. The male/female ends allow for easier alignment when gluing them together.
| rodfloat-end-ziptie.stl | 59.7KB | |
| rodfloat-long.stl | 49.5KB | |
| rodfloat-stubby.stl | 49.5KB | |
| rodfloat-tip-female.stl | 32.4KB | |
| rodfloat-tip-male.stl | 32.4KB |
