Bite alarm ( on a budget )

[DaRoachster]

Hello ellow anglers .

I was hopeing that you could help me I need to know how to make a visual bite alarm as i have had mine pinched by some low life scum bag but enough of that . I have no spare cash to buy more at the moment and I am going fishing sunday with whats left of my fishing gear. Any help gratefully recieved :mad: :mad: :mad:

[anglerusmaximus]

for a boobin, you can get a fairy liquid bottle cap and hang over the line. {brings back memories}

or a twig in a 'y' shape to put on it, if thay dont work then loosen your clutch or watch your line for indication.

 

[Steve Burke]

Years ago I used to make "Flipsticks" adapted from a Dick Walker design. You need to pinch a knitting needle from the wife, a few inches of silicon tubing, an old waggler float and a piece of wire begged from the florist or similar.

 

Briefly the knitting needle goes into the ground between the reel and butt ring and about a foot to the side. The float is attached to the needle at right angles by the silicon rubber so that it can swing about. The florist wire is taped over the other end of the float and bent into a letter n shape so that it clips over the line.

 

This flipstick is very sensitive, can be weighted down with swanshot attached by a loop of nylon to the float, and is almost windproof. I used it successfully for many years, including on some very tricky stillwater chub.

 

As you can see it costs next to nothing. However, later on I used one of those electric light floats so that it was lit up at night.

 

I think I've still got one. If I can find it I'll post up a photo - if someone can tell me how to do so!

[Leon Roskilly]

Stick a hairpin through a cork.

 

Tie some heavy line to a clothe's peg, and the other end to the U of the hairpin emerging from the bottom of the cork. Clip the clothes peg onto your rod rest.

 

Now clip the other end of the hair pin onto your line - voila.

 

When you strike, the 'bite indicator drops from the line, but remains attached to the rod rest, by the peg.

 

On windy days, you can add extra weight to strong line beneath the cork, perhaps a ball of mud or clay.

 

Depending on the conditions, you can also squeeze some bread or mud onto the line, a bent over twig, or blade of grass, or a cork slit with a penknife blade.

 

When it grows dark, it can be exciting simply to hold the line in your fingers, not between the rings, but beyond the rod tip, with the rod next to you, striking with your hand. It's amazing how sensitive your fingers can be, feeling gentle twitches as minnows pick at your bait, or a fish pokes at it before starting to move off with the bait.

 

Tight Lines - leon

[Paul_D]

What about the good old 'dough' bobbin. As simple as it gets.....

[SteveH]

Hiya,

 

I know this is a late reply but how about you ICQ me (my number is 167075118) and I will arrange to send you a budget version (but still very good) electronic bite alarm. I dont use it much and know what it is like to suffer theft of tackle. Gimme a shout and you can have it.