Buzzers...what are they

[Snatcher]

Buzzers as in trout fishing the pupal stage of midges, usually fished on a floating line with a long leader and retrieved very slowly in a figure of eight movement.

 

This is the correct answer Used them to great effect on Keilder Water years ago to take a limit bag of brown trout.

 

Dressed the buzzer myself very sparsly on a 14 hook. A crackin days fishing

[Dick Dastardly]

All the answers are correct!

 

All though in these carp orientated times I should imagine that it is bite alarms being reffered to.

[Elton]

'Buzzers' is usually the term applied to electronic bite alarms, these days, as Budgie says.

 

There's the fly-fishing association, which I won't pretend to know about, and, as Newt says, Buzzbaits, which I do have experience of (and share his confidence in!). We call them spinnerbaits, though

[Dick Dastardly]

We call them spinnerbaits, though

 

You carp anglers might but us Pikers certainly dont! Uncle Newt can you kindly post a photo of a "Spinner Bait" and a "Buzzbait" to enlighten our Bivvy bound brother?

[Newt]

Spinner baits - one or more blades that rotate and flash as the lure is pulled along. Usually fished under water but if you have a fast reel, they can be made to ride on top for a time and create a bit of a fuss. I am showing only detached style lures but inline spinner baits are probably more common in the UK.

 

 

Buzzbaits - designed to run on top at slow speeds and to create maximum amounts of bubbles and noise. They do not perform if allowed to sink. As with spinnerbaits, inline versions are available.

 

[Dick Dastardly]

Thanks mate.

 

Hope youve been paying attention and taking notes young Murphy as there will be questions on this!

[kleinboet]

But, what about the buzzers that plague you flying around your head when you are trying to fish?

[s_mac]

But, what about the buzzers that plague you flying around your head when you are trying to fish?

 

roll on the cooler weather to get rid of the buzzer wasps., went early fishing other morning, to get baited up, before dawn.

 

set up my light so i could see what i was doing, to set up my rods while i waited for daylight. i was not plagued by moths lol, but wasps buzzing about my light. and god i hate them.

 

dont know why god created such a creature, they are not part of food chain, nothing wants to eat them, they dont buzz about flowers pollonating.

 

what do they do, or what are they here for, except to hang around bins and my night light lol.

 

smac

[Peter Waller]

We call them spinnerbaits, though

 

Dr Barry Rickards didn't! Via Masterline he called them 'Barry's Buzzers'!

[Dick Dastardly]

Dr Barry Rickards didn't! Via Masterline he called them 'Barry's Buzzers'!

 

 

Yes they were wern't they! That Rickards he dont know nothing does he?