Since those early days, the fishing float has become the subject of much practical and theoretical change.

It involves a stick (knotty), which can be almost any form of wooden implement, and a cork fishing float as ball with varying sizes of players.

Dried leaf petioles are a source of cellulose pulp, used for walking sticks, brooms, fishing floats and fuel.

The wood, being both strong and light, makes excellent fishing floats, toys, insulating material and drawing boards.

Various light corkwood -type woods have been used around the world as fishing floats.