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WAS JUST WONDERING WHAT EVERYONE ELSE USES. I LIKE COILED WIRE INDACATORS BEST. THEY ARE NOT ON THE MARKET SO YOU CAN NOT BUY THEM THEY ARE BUILT AT HOME. UNLIKE ALL THE OTHER WIRE INDACATORES THEASE HAVE NO MEMORY, SO WHEN A BIG FISH IS HOOKED THE WIRE RECOILS TO ORIGANNAL POSITION. I HATED HAVING TO REBEND THE STORE BOUGHT ONE EVRY TIME I HOOKED A FIGHTER. IM FOREVER GRATEFULL TO THE OLD GUY THAT SHOWED ME THIS. I CAN BUILD 6 FOR A DALLOR FIFTY.
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Can you show us how? I'm stuck in the world of store bought ones! I'd like to see "how" or find someone to buy them off of. Heard great things about them.
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You should make us "forever grateful" that you showed us how to make em[  ]..
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ITS EASY WHAT YOU WILL HAVE TO GET IS A GUITAR STRING COST ABOUT 80 CENTS THEN SOME COLORED BEADS FROM A KIDS NECKLASE BUILDING KIT. THE GLASS BEADS FROM A CRAWLER HARNESS WILL WORK. AND LAST SOME SRINK TAPE WIRE CONECTORS. CUT ABOUT A 6 INCH PEACE OFF THE LINE AND BEND ONE END LIKE A EYELET THEN ATTACH THE TAPE TO CONNECT THE LOOSE END AND INDACATOR SHAFT TOGETHER SLIDE ON A BEAD AND THEN STICK IT THROUGH THE LITLE HOLE AT THE TOP OF THE EYELETABOVE WHERE STRING GOES THREW THEN BEND THE STRAIT END UP OVER ROD AND FORWARD ABOUT 1 INCH SLIDE ON SHRINK TAPE HEAT IT AND ITS COMPLETE.
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Could you please post pictures of the indicator?
One picture is worth a thousand wrong built indicator![ ]
You could even give us dummies step by step instructions.
What size string do you use? Is it a wound string or just a wire string? Thanks, Dale.
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YOU WILL WANT THE THINEST WRAPPED GUITAR STRING. DONT HAVE ANY PICS IM AT WORK. JUST LOOK AT A STORE BOUGHT AND COPY ITS DESIGHN ONLY USING WHAT I HAVE LISTED. IM SERIOS ITS TO SIMPLE... ONLY TOOL NEEDED IS NEADLE NOSE PLIERS.
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[  ]I still like to use a clinch type bobber, but with a wrinkle.
The bobber should be sized to almost zero balance the weight of your terminal tackle, so it just barely floats when attached.
The wrinkle is not to clinch the bobber directly around your line, but to double the line over and clinch around the loop. With a properly balanced bobber you will detect the slightest tip to the side, sideways motion, etc., and when you set the hook, the bobber will pop off the loop, and leave you free to land the fish.
Just my method, which I'm sure others use also. I think it is just as sensitive and only requires a store bought plastic bobber of different sizes.
Good luck and always watch your bobber!
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Huge fan of the Thill Shybite, and mini-shybite. They rock!
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I am new to this sight, so still learning what it is all about. I fly fish only and I do allot of deep nymphing and struggled for years with trying to pull the strike indicator off when hooked up with a 25' - 30' leader.
Dennis Brakke from the Fly Desk sight sells these styro indicators that are fantastic. The styro indicator comes in all sizes. It has a plastic cone shaped tube that you stuff inside the styro with a loop in your line. When a fish hits, the loop straightens out and the indicator will slide freely.
They would work fantastic for bait fishing also.
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Those sound a lot like a "smart bobber". I picked up a couple of them from Angler's Inn a few years back. Styrofoam bobber with a piece of aquarium air tubing through it perpendicular to the hole that the line passes through. And a small hole through that for the line to go through as well. After your line is through both the bobber and the tube, you push the tubing to one side or the other. That stops the line from going any farther in or out. You can set it at any depth. When you set the hook, you put enough tension on the line that the air tubing slides back to the middle and the bobber will slide up and down your line.
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i found new favorite last year at cal ranch of all places. they are the slip bobber type so you will still need a string knot. They are basically a piece of yellow foam about the size of a pencil with a small red plastic clip. The advantages are you can cut the foam to match the bait( i have several). the actual knot and slip hole are under water at all times, hence they don't freeze like the balsa slip bobbers. They clip on and clip off without having to retie anything and are basically indestructable.
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I know the ones you are talking about, but these are even easier. They are a teardrop shaped styro in various colors and size. You slip this on to your line then there is a black plastic peg that is smaller at one end that you slide onto you line next. Slide them both up to where you want then, hold the stryo and make a loop in the line between the stryo and the peg, then stick the paeg in to the styro with the line loop sticking out to the side. Depending on how far you stick the peg in determinds how hard it will be to release the loop. If you barlie stick it in then when a fish hits, it pulls the loop straight at the indicator slides freely.
I also like the indicators I got at Orvis if I am fishing 9' or less. They are a ball of styro with a plastic stick going through the middle with about 3/4" showing on both ends. Then there is a rubber tube you slide on your line. Put the rubber tube at the depth you want your line and stick one end of the stick that is in the styro ball into the rubber tube. They are neat cause the other end of the bobber stick will stick straight up when your fly sinks (that's if you fly is suspended off the bottom. If you fly is touching the bottom it won't, so it is a good regulator) They come in two sizes and colors.
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Hi there new member,
The name of this float is "Ice Buster Bobber", put out by Today's Tackle and like you there favorite. I found them at Fish Tech in Holyday.
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My favorite strike indacator is the fish pulling on my line........[cool][crazy][cool][ ]
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Amen to that!! I tend to agree with you bassrods. Although I have used many bobber methods and every time I fish with my Dad he insists on using a bobber whether fly or bait fishing. He's an old schooler..no wait he's an oldtimer, been fishing way before the term "old school" came in to anyone's vocabulary.
I would like to see the directions to the guitar string method mentioned by crossineyes. I think it sounds like something I'd like to make and try.
To flygoddess, In reference to:[font "Times New Roman"][black] "[/black][/font][size 1][black][size 2]Dennis Brakke from the Fly Desk sight sells these styro indicators that are fantastic"[/size][/black] [/size][font "Victorian LET"][black][font "Verdana"][black]where is the Fly Desk site? and
Welcome aboard. Nice to hear from a lady angler.
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Anglin Angel, the sight for Dennis Brakke is [url "http://www.flydesk.com/"]www.flydesk.com/[/url] .
He is a great guy, goes to Canada twice a year and one of these times we are going with him. He hooked us up with a pontube made by Venture Outdoors which is a great small lakes boat. If you wanna see mine go to [url "http://www.pbase.com/albot"]www.pbase.com/albot[/url] (bottom of the page)
As far as that guitar string thing. could you use any wire, like the thin wire for fly tying?
I bought some strike indicator stops, that use a wire.
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[cool][#0000ff]I work with wire a lot...for spinners and other rigging. I use the stainless steel leader material that is for toothy fishies. It works the same as guitar string, but maybe not as musical. Best sizes are .020 to .024.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have never liked the commercial models, shown in the attached pic. The wire is good, but the holes for the line guide are very small and they ice up quickly. I usually cut off the guide and add a large round wire guide, wrapping it like a rod wrap, using hot red thread. Sorry, no current pic to show.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Attach the wire to your rod with shrink tape or shrink tubing. Or, if you want to take the time, wrap it on with your rod wrapping stuff. You don't need to worry about color preserver and gloss coat. They get bent and wear out and need to be replaced so there is no need to be fancy.[/#0000ff]
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I just boought an indicator from Sportsmans that looks like a guitar string. I had never seen one like it before and thought I would try it. i don't have it here at work but if anyone is interested, I could tak a picture of it and post it. I am also tired of my indicator getting hammered by the end of the day.
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LETS SEE IFF UTWALLEYE WILL ASSIST ME IN DOING SOME PIC,S OF HOW TO MAKE THE REAL DEAL INDACATOR,S. IM SURE HE WILL ILL PM HIM. ITS SO SIMPLE AND CHEAP. AND ALSO CAN BUILD DIFFENT SIZES FOR BIGGER HEVIER JIGS.
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TD, excuse me for asking a dumba$$ question. Are the indicators you guys are talking about for ice fishing?
Installing them on the end of your ice rods to feel the most miniscule twitch?
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