Angling methods you've pioneered

[guest39]

As a youth in the late 70’s I was bought a fibreglass Shakespeare pole complete with ‘crook’.

Immediately my catch rates improved, mostly due to fishing a consistent line on the near margin of my local canal.

However, due to a consistent and unrelenting tow from the operation of the locks I developed this ‘method’.

I manufactured and added a home-made ‘swim feeder’ to my set up (the first swim feeder that I can remember seeing was in the Angling Times somewhere around 1976/77) My swim feeder, was made from some thick polythene sheet which was fabricated into a sort of inverted ice-cream cone - large diameter approx. 20mm and tapering to a point over 50 – 60mm. The ‘feeder’ was fastened to the line by a length of line which was stapled to side of the feeder and a single AAA shot was squeezed on the line to stop it pulling back through the staples, coincidentally this weight provided enough ballast to stop the assembly from floating. (Later versions featured holes in the polythene, pretty obvious I know but my mum’s garden was the JPL of its day).

My feeder was fished in conjunction with a small Ray Mumford float which looked more like a stick float than a pole float with a bristle and was fished slightly over depth; it was attached to the main line with a swivel and locked with a small shot. The feeder was filled with maggots and plugged off with ground bait and lowered in, I suppose it would technically be called ‘laying on’. The float sat in the water at a shallow angle and bites were indicated by either the float ‘shaking’ or disappearing without notice – one thing is certain bites and catches rates improved beyond measure.

I don’t claim any originality for this adaptation but in the spirit of the original post it was something that I cobbled together to overcome a specific issue – happy days.

[chav professor]

Love it! Its not all about the 'all singing...' inventions, its just applying creativity and coming up with solutions to a problem

[The bad one]

Too many to mention. A large percentage appear in the articles I've wrote on this site down the years!
The one I'm probably most proud of is the impact feeder. I patented that one on the 28th of July 1987. Sadly like others the cost of production, namely the tooling cost were to high. Peter Drennan who was interested had the tooling costs priced at 100K.
The way it worked was on impact with the bed of the water the feeder opened delivering the contents. Designed mainly for delivering chopped worm at long distances for bream fishing.

[cg74]

Originally Posted by noknot

http://www.fishingmagic.com/features...hookbaits.html
It may help for me to show you my methods.........silly me!

I tried it and on right water it was very effective but sadly it was not the type of water I usually fish; heavily stocked waters, especially ones that get fairly pressured; it'd certainly give any Linear regulars a massive edge.

[nicepix]

Originally Posted by bottle rocket

As a youth in the late 70’s I was bought a fibreglass Shakespeare pole complete with ‘crook’.

Immediately my catch rates improved, mostly due to fishing a consistent line on the near margin of my local canal.

However, due to a consistent and unrelenting tow from the operation of the locks I developed this ‘method’.

I manufactured and added a home-made ‘swim feeder’ to my set up (the first swim feeder that I can remember seeing was in the Angling Times somewhere around 1976/77) My swim feeder, was made from some thick polythene sheet which was fabricated into a sort of inverted ice-cream cone - large diameter approx. 20mm and tapering to a point over 50 – 60mm. The ‘feeder’ was fastened to the line by a length of line which was stapled to side of the feeder and a single AAA shot was squeezed on the line to stop it pulling back through the staples, coincidentally this weight provided enough ballast to stop the assembly from floating. (Later versions featured holes in the polythene, pretty obvious I know but my mum’s garden was the JPL of its day).

My feeder was fished in conjunction with a small Ray Mumford float which looked more like a stick float than a pole float with a bristle and was fished slightly over depth; it was attached to the main line with a swivel and locked with a small shot. The feeder was filled with maggots and plugged off with ground bait and lowered in, I suppose it would technically be called ‘laying on’. The float sat in the water at a shallow angle and bites were indicated by either the float ‘shaking’ or disappearing without notice – one thing is certain bites and catches rates improved beyond measure.

I don’t claim any originality for this adaptation but in the spirit of the original post it was something that I cobbled together to overcome a specific issue – happy days.

Good stuff! We used plastic hair curlers as swimfeeders and when we wanted something larger we cut the alloy tube from the Hoover into 3 or 4" lengths. My Mum never did find the Hoover pipe she was looking for

[cg74]

Originally Posted by Philip

I suspect someone somewhere must have done it before me but I certainly "invented" flying backleads in as much as to say that I thought of the idea myself before I ever saw one in a shop or in print. Mine was basically a tiny bomb attached to a snap link on a run ring and held about 3 foot up the line above the normal lead by a stop. Cast out under arm the top lead landed at your feet and the bottom lead whizzed out into the river with the line between the two pinned down. It worked really well for Barbel and I went to great pains not to let anyone see me using it.

Completely seperate from you, I also invented the flying back lead. I started off cutting a 1/2oz drilled bullet in half, then boring-out the flat edge with a countersink drill bit but found they got tangled.
So I left the flat edge flat and on a 40 yard cast they would zip 8-10 yards up the mainline - saved me much grief when fishing 2 rods tight to an island on my favourite fishery at the time.
On an underarm flick of 12-15 yards they would travel 3-4 yards - perfect for pinning my line to the central 'track' on a canal.

That was roughly 25 years ago.

[flightliner]

Originally Posted by MarkTheSpark

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Originally Posted by flightliner
Strange isnt it, you are immedietaly interested as I think many anglers would be (thank you), but when I approached two differant companies with the idea they wer,nt.I told both that they could view it on condition that it would,nt be pirated and leave me in the cold so to speak and was told to have something written up by a legal eagle, I asked if they would go halfway with the costs but they declined, I did make enquiries at the time but decided it was a bit rich so hence the hiding in the cupboard thing.
Sad really as it does so much more than the more popular bait delivery items on the market and the angler and the industry have lost out.
Not only that but it can be used not only by the speciman fraternity but the match and pleasure guys also as its size can be modified to suit all parties
Any tackle manufacturer looking in on this can veiw it but----as stated above.

I have had the same experience with tackled inventions; they just steal them.
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Mark, back in the mid eighties a writer of my aquintance did a piece for the then "Specialist Angler" It centred on items of tackle that he thought may be useful to big fish anglers-- some were in a humerous vein -- like "Eel Boots" (track running shoes) that would prevent an eel from squirming away but one or two other items were more serious particularly what we now know as a spod rocket tho in the article he named it after himself "------s Rocket".
It wasnt to long before it was in commercial production. It pays to be careful!

[Lord Paul of Sheffield]

probably the most inventive I am is with bait combustion, spicy boilie and cheese together caught me a few carp