Quiver-tipping at night

[The Flying Tench]

How do you detect the bites when night comes? I realise that barbel anglers have a small plastic tube whipped to the end of the rod, into which they put the night light. But for general fishing, if you've got 3 rods with 3 tips each it would be a bit tiresome to have to do it for all of them.

 

Say you are quiver tipping on a river, and decide to stay on an extra half hour or hour into dark, what do you do? Do you, for example, simply sellotape a night light to the rod tip? Or do you switch to a bobbin?

[terry t shirt]

If i was just stopping on an extra hour or so theres a cpl of options.

Touch ledgering , just hold the rod and rest the line over your finger,

Quiver using a red LED head torch works best with a quiver tip painted white.

The nightlight whipped on as you've said.

Personally on a river i never use more than 2 rods and would have nightlights whipped on ready. But if just stopping on with one rod I would opt for touch ledgering.

[Mat Hillman]

I've attached a chemical type starlight to the tip of a rod with a couple of float rubbers a few times when I've stayed on after dark. seems to work ok, but you do need to put the float rubbers in place before rigging up!

 

Mat

[Kappa]

John

 

Drennan do some clever little beta lights. They clip onto the rod tip (many different sizes of clips in the pack)

 

You can just put them on when you need them.

 

Didcot Angling usually have them

 

https://www.google.co.uk/shopping/product/3140029630196088364?q=drennan+beta+lights&client=firefox-b&prmd=ivns&prds=paur:ClkAsKraX9Ip9zD2WnE6G5oM7IFuz7qXu5Ux5g6DMdzwwEiEp9KVRWbwcgr6Zwo-t9Dlp1AfP8TyM7S3W9-cmvcxv6onLihNRw0qy3WEKMFd5iKha8uBaVvSoBIZAFPVH72bKDGb85CwSAPXZeVF1L7YYSY7HA&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwigvLyv4prOAhWLaRQKHf5wDxYQ8wIIDDAA

[ayjay]

  On 7/29/2016 at 11:00 PM, The Flying Tench said:

How do you detect the bites when night comes? I realise that barbel anglers have a small plastic tube whipped to the end of the rod, into which they put the night light. But for general fishing, if you've got 3 rods with 3 tips each it would be a bit tiresome to have to do it for all of them.

 

Say you are quiver tipping on a river, and decide to stay on an extra half hour or hour into dark, what do you do? Do you, for example, simply sellotape a night light to the rod tip? Or do you switch to a bobbin?

I'm not quite sure what you mean: is it tiresome to prepare the three tips for when you do need them or just tiresome attaching a betalight to the prepared rod? For me, it would be tiresome trying to fish with three rods, night or day.

 

 

Point the rod at the bait, forget the quivertip and touch leger.

 

BTW, I have a different approach to attaching betalights: I whip (and then Araldite) on to the rod/quiver tip a small shaped section of something akin to a Biro tube so that it sticks up at about 60°, a betalight is then attached to the biro tube by sliding a piece of clear silicone which is already on the betalight over the sticky up bit - takes a couple of seconds, if that.

[lutra]

These days I use the ones kappa posted. Before that most of my tip rods had two float rubbers that lived between the top eye and the next eye down and were there when i wanted them.

Edited July 30, 2016 by lutra

[The Flying Tench]

Brilliant - very helpful replies

 

Thanks

[Steve Walker]

And the Drennan ones can be fitted without breaking the rod down too.

[Andy_1984]

Ive used small thin strips of electrical tape a few times to hold on the chemical 'snap' ones and also tied them on with power gum. Both work well for those opportunistic times you need one.

[Rusty]

  On 7/30/2016 at 8:28 AM, Kappa said:

John

 

Drennan do some clever little beta lights. They clip onto the rod tip (many different sizes of clips in the pack)

 

You can just put them on when you need them.

 

Didcot Angling usually have them

 

https://www.google.co.uk/shopping/product/3140029630196088364?q=drennan+beta+lights&client=firefox-b&prmd=ivns&prds=paur:ClkAsKraX9Ip9zD2WnE6G5oM7IFuz7qXu5Ux5g6DMdzwwEiEp9KVRWbwcgr6Zwo-t9Dlp1AfP8TyM7S3W9-cmvcxv6onLihNRw0qy3WEKMFd5iKha8uBaVvSoBIZAFPVH72bKDGb85CwSAPXZeVF1L7YYSY7HA&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwigvLyv4prOAhWLaRQKHf5wDxYQ8wIIDDAA

I use those too, I've had them for a couple of years now and they're still going strong.