Bottle top bite indicators

[Reedling]

I was just about to do the washing up when I realised I had run out of that 'mild green liquid' so had to replenish our smaller bottle. I decanted the dregs from an old large bottle and was about to throw it away when my thoughts went back to using a bottle top as a butt indicator. The modern tops are of a hinged snap variety without that little looped hole that the line ran through whilst dangling between the rings, so I had an idea. I got out my little drill and made a hole in the hinge so that now I have one of those old school bottle top indicators to use when I fish next. If extra weight was required you could always press a lump of blue tac or putty where the thread is. Here are a couple of pictures that I took just now of before and after.. a bit rough but, I am sure you catch my drift.....

[Bob Brookes]

So simple that it's simply brilliant.

[Shaun Harrison]

So obvious, so brilliant. If you saw what the original styles go for on a certain selling site you may get a shock.

[The Old Buffer]

Like all of the best innovations so simple that you wonder how no one else had thought of it.

[Reedling]

Thanks for your kind comments Gents, it makes it all worthwhile to do.

[RBTraditional]

Now that I like!

[Paul D]

Brilliant Reedling

[Pentonhook]

Regarding home made bite indicators/bobbins, have any members made any
from the small plastic widget found in a can of Guinness.

[GazTheAngler]

Now those I like a lot reedling

[Wagtail]

Regarding home made bite indicators/bobbins, have any members made any
from the small plastic widget found in a can of Guinness.

They are just the right size for making the bobbin part of a pike fisher's drop off indicator