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There have been some weird and wonderful bite indicators invented and cobbled-together over the years....did you come up with anything? Tell us about it...
Heron" bite alarms
Bad one, Just on a historical note stiff armed indicators were widely used back in the sixties, particularly on the the fenland match scene where Bream were the target species.I didn't get the name Mr Gadget by the first editor of this site for no reason Cliff.
Probably the first person in the UK to use stiff hinged armed indicators as a back up to the optonics for bream fishing or any type of fishing for that matter.
The Crow...........there's was nothing wrong with the Heron! Your memories of its performance on windy nights are - I believe - predicated on pre-line clip, weighted 'swinger' days. It was the lack of line-tension at fault - not the indicator head
On that note Crow I could embrace some well-known anglers who fished around the 3 Counties back then…. But I won’t! That was then, and you did what you did, because the pups don’t know they were born with what they have today, in comparison to what you had to do/make back then to get by and improve your fishing.Always preferred a cork with a large betalight from inside the motorway ph........... well the less said about them the better I think I see they are not used now