Patent ID: 8720105

Claim:
A fishing leader and float combination comprising: a tapered fly-fishing leader having a tip end, a butt end, and an outer surface between said tip end and said butt end, wherein the tip end is smaller in diameter than the butt end and the outer surface is tapered from said butt end to said tip end; a float comprising a single main body with a first float end and a second float end, a protrusion extending from the second float end that is smaller in diameter than the second float end, and a single bore extending through the main body along a longitudinal axis of the float between the first float end and the second float end, wherein the protrusion is closed at an outermost end thereof and a tapered region of the single bore extends only part way into the protrusion to form a hollow interior of the protrusion so that the single bore is closed at said second float end until removal of the protrusion opens the single bore to an outside surface of said second end of the float; wherein, after removal of the protrusion, the leader extends through the bore, and the combination does not comprise any member in the bore of the float except said leader, and said float is fixed directly to the leader and immovable on the leader during fishing only by means of an interference fit between the float bore and the tapered outer surface of the leader.