The Traditional Fisherman's Forum

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.....

So simple that it's simply brilliant.

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

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

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

Now that I like!

Brilliant Reedling

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

Now those I like a lot reedling

Pentonhook wrote: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