Isotopes

Harry Whitehouse · Jun 17, 2011

Can any of you folk recommend me some decent (bright/coloured) Isotopes for tip of rod . I've been using the Drennan ones that come with attachments but I'm hoping there's something similar but brighter out there .

steph mckenzie · Jun 17, 2011

Have you tried using a Light House :wh

Only joshing with you Harry .... seriously though, how bright do they need to be for you to see them ?

Harry Whitehouse · Jun 17, 2011

well i purchased the drennans last year and I wasn't very happy with them then and I used them again last night and they seem even duller than I remembered . Perhaps its a different colour that im looking for .

And there is nothing wrong with my eyesight before anyone comments lol

Ray Daywalker Clarke · Jun 17, 2011

Have a look here, www.johnsonrosstackle.co.uk Tel 01992 462044.

Look at the Matrix tackle, that's what i use, found the green to be the best.

Good luck

chav professor · Jun 17, 2011

Drennan Super specialist isotopes? I find them excellent........ BTW tryed placing one near a Geiger-Muller tube and did not detect any radiation emmitted from the source - what ever it is encased in must absorb the energy. Got more clicks from a packet of Brazil nuts - could try those - but they do not glow!

A word of warning, isotopes can be fragile - my mate bought some isotopes and bust both of them first time he used them. the drennan ones are designed to be used on the rod and mine are still bright after 6years.

Mr Cholmondeley-Corker (PaSC) · Jun 17, 2011

Get down to Lidl. They do boxes of 100 for £2.92. Selection of colours in traditional green/yellow, red and blue.

Poshpaul (Angling Trust and PaSC) · Jun 17, 2011

Corkers is spot on I bought two boxes last year....keep an eye on this forum as these items are not constant stock...but word gets out when the likes of Lidl and aldi are stocking items..some of which are top dollar....and some of which are bottom dollar!!! the isotopes are top dollar

steph mckenzie · Jun 17, 2011

Are the Isotopes from Lidl, the snap and Glow ones ?

richiekelly · Jun 17, 2011

the brightest ones used to be the ones found in motorway emergency phones,about two and half inches long, im not saying i had any mind you but knew a man that did, they are not used now.

chav professor · Jun 17, 2011

Hang on a sec, isotopes are completely different to the chemoluminescent (can't spell) snap and glow ones.

noknot · Jun 17, 2011

Indeed! Beta lights are in a sealed glass tube....

steph mckenzie · Jun 17, 2011

I told you to get a Light House, there'd have been none of this nonsense if you had just gotten a Light House

noknot · Jun 17, 2011

I used to use them inserted in clear silicone tube and whipped to my rod tips when winter Carp fishing at night, and yes I caught many Carp by watching the tips after dark, sometimes this was just a tremble one the tip and no sound from the bite alarm!

Ray Daywalker Clarke · Jun 17, 2011

Isotopes are also sealed, crack one and thats it.

I always carry the snap and glow as a backup just in case. The problem now, they have been in my bag for years, I wonder if they have gone Radio active...........

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I will have to snap one and see what happens, I might end up like the lads on Only Fools and Horses.when they had the paint......:wh

Poshpaul (Angling Trust and PaSC) · Jun 17, 2011

Sorry folks...the Lidl ones are snap and go

steph mckenzie · Jun 17, 2011

Do you hair rig your Isotopes or put them directly on to the Hook ....... :wh

I knew i couldn't last long

noknot · Jun 18, 2011

Poshpaul (Angling Trust and PaSC) said:
Sorry folks...the Lidl ones are snap and go

They should last 6-8 hrs, if you use them for just a couple of hrs, when you get home pop em in the freezer and you can use them again

steph mckenzie · Jun 18, 2011

Ray Daywalker Clarke said:
The problem now, they have been in my bag for years, I wonder if they have gone Radio active...........

There's a quick and easy way to tell if they are leaking any radio activity, apparently one of the first signs is that your hair turns Orange :wh

chav professor · Jun 18, 2011

steph mckenzie said:
There's a quick and easy way to tell if they are leaking any radio activity, apparently one of the first signs is that your hair turns Orange :wh

Beta isotopes start radioactive but decay overtime to form more stable isotopes. All the radiactive particles are absorbed by the casing of the isotope so IMO they are completely harmful (unless crunched in the mouth and then ingested

- there you have been warned).

That Russian Agent discovered what the signs were regarding that special radioactive element, polonium. I think he lost his hair, his skin began to break down, his internal organs grew tumours and was bleeding from orrifices that shouldn't......... Radiation doesn't glow. I believe the emmitted energy 'excites' particles on the inner surface of the isotope..

I think isotope rod fittings are fine - just avoid Rusian dissidents and Polonium Sushi.

quickcedo · Jun 18, 2011

chav professor said:
so IMO they are completely harmful

I think that should have read harmless

It's funny because I usually cover mine to dull them. I find bright ones start moving on there own if watched too long.

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