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Correct Reel For Using A Bite Alarm

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Posted on behalf of Cooksta. Please add all replies to this thread:

 

If using a bite alarm do you need to use a baitrunner reel?

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To add a little bit more to Budgies comprehensive reply :ph34r: , you either need to slacken off the clutch to get a 'free spool' effect, or fish with the anti-reverse off 'churner' style.

 

Rob.

 

LOL! or open bail arm of course or just a long drop on the bobbin. Easy to get to blinded by modern carp tactics with free spool techniques etc.

And thats my "non indicative opinion"!

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bait runners are great ,long gone are loosening clutches then the realisation you didnt tighten it up in the frenzy to strike after days of waiting ,long gone are balancing pennies on spools only to see the line in great spools in the swim when you nodded off for a minute and the penny fell off .

bait runner function is an extra to a reel it doesnt make the reel only suitable to one type of fishing its just a reel with an extra function at little more cost (if any) over a similar reel without it.

if your sitting right next to your rod then of course you dont need it but if your in a bivvy its a lot safer as a running fish can take a fair few feet of line before you get to the rod

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To add a little bit more to Budgies comprehensive reply :ph34r: , you either need to slacken off the clutch to get a 'free spool' effect, or fish with the anti-reverse off 'churner' style.

 

Rob.

 

LOL! or open bail arm of course or just a long drop on the bobbin. Easy to get to blinded by modern carp tactics with free spool techniques etc.

 

I had some great fun this year while on Holiday in Thailand fishing 'churner' style and with the bail arm open. Turned up at a local fishery for some Cat and Carp fishing and hired some gear. No alarms or bait runners, bobbins or monkey climbers. It was like fishing in the stone age :D But it did remind me that you can catch good fish with out all the modern technology and an old coke tin bent in two over your line doubles as a bobbin and bite alarm.

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You can use bite alarms without a baitrunner reel, you could just loosen the clutch off, but in this way you have to remember to tighten it up when striking. With a bitrunner all you have to do is a quick twist of the reel handle and the clutch engages, which is in my opinion a lot easier, and you all you have to do is flick the switch to turn the baitrunner on.

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Dont get me started about tin foil bobbins and rusty welding rods!

Get up to date guys, corks and hairpins is where its at!!!

Just don't tell me girly... or my mum... :ph34r:

 

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Get up to date guys, corks and hairpins is where its at!!!

Just don't tell me girly... or my mum... :ph34r:

 

Renrag

 

 

or a v shaped twig!

 

 

Personally Cooksta, id go for a bait runner. You can pick up some pretty decent ones quite cheap now so no need to go paying 100's for something.

 

Free spooling, open bail arm etc can be quite "messy" if your new to this style of fishing.

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