Abu Garcia Bombarda Floating

Overview

The Abu Garcia Bombarda Floating is a casting float built to solve a common problem for anglers fishing very light presentations: lack of casting weight. It lets you cast flies or other small lures a long distance using a standard spinning rod, something that would otherwise be impossible given how little these presentations weigh on their own.

Finished in white and clearly marked with its gram weight and the word FLOATING, this Bombarda is constructed from solid polytip resin, as described by UK retailers. It sits at or near the surface rather than sinking, keeping your lure or fly working in the upper layers of the water column throughout the retrieve.

The float is available in five weights — 15g, 20g, 25g, 30g and 40g — each with its own Abu Garcia product code, so you can match the casting weight to your rod, conditions and the distance you need to achieve.

Perfect For

Abu Garcia specifically highlights coastal fishing as a key use for the Bombarda, pointing to situations where extra casting distance is needed to reach fish feeding further out from the shore. This makes the Floating Bombarda a genuinely useful tool for sea anglers presenting small artificial lures or flies on spinning tackle.

It's particularly handy when you want to keep your presentation small and lightweight rather than switching to a heavier lure purely to gain casting distance — the Bombarda does the casting work while your fly, lure or light rig fishes naturally behind it near the surface.

Technical Insight

The principle behind the Bombarda is straightforward: it separates casting weight from presentation. Instead of relying on the weight of the lure itself to load the rod and carry distance, the float supplies the mass, letting an angler present a fly or tiny lure that would otherwise be uncastable at range.

Because this is the Floating version, it stays at the surface rather than deliberately fishing down, unlike the Intermediate or Sinking Bombardas in the wider range. Each weight is supplied as one float plus two black rigging beads per pack, as published by UK retailers, giving you everything needed to set up the rig straight away.