The Traditional Fisherman's Forum

As its shooting season here at the moment by boys are out beating most days and are bringing home lots pheasants and partridge and this week a feed sack full of spent shotgun shells,there are so many things to do with them fro christmas decor to whistles,however two of these were destined to be strike bobbins,basically i drilled the percussion cap out fitted a piece of wood inside the shell,drilled the top out and glued a hair pin in place,the brass end i screwed an eyed screw into the percussion cap hole and attached a brass bath plug chain.
It works a treat showing bites and i landed a fair few fish today using it in conjunction with a small arseley bomb and worm.






so I have shown you mine lets see your strike bobbins!

Nice job Fish! I tend to use a good traditional bottle top ( quite hard to find these days).

Shotgun Cartridges make very good feeders too !

Does anybody still use monkey climbers, I use one quite regularly, it has an adjustable weight so you can alter it to the conditions.They come up occasionally on car boot sales , but I found mine years ago in a farm pond when it was very low. Maybe a project there for Mr Fish to " whittle" away an hour or so making one.

OMR

Old Man River wrote: ↑Wed Dec 19, 2018 8:33 pm Shotgun Cartridges make very good feeders too !

Does anybody still use monkey climbers, I use one quite regularly, it has an adjustable weight so you can alter it to the conditions.They come up occasionally on car boot sales , but I found mine years ago in a farm pond when it was very low. Maybe a project there for Mr Fish to " whittle" away an hour or so making one.

OMR

wasnt that a stick with a bobbin that slid up and down?

Monkey climber - came from the item below!

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=monke ... 5zOlG0iQCM:

Fish wrote: ↑Wed Dec 19, 2018 10:28 pm

Old Man River wrote: ↑Wed Dec 19, 2018 8:33 pm Shotgun Cartridges make very good feeders too !

Does anybody still use monkey climbers, I use one quite regularly, it has an adjustable weight so you can alter it to the conditions.They come up occasionally on car boot sales , but I found mine years ago in a farm pond when it was very low. Maybe a project there for Mr Fish to " whittle" away an hour or so making one.

OMR

wasnt that a stick with a bobbin that slid up and down?

Here you go Mr Fish... sorry about the picture quality, but its easy to see how they work, mine slides on a bit of red painted garden cane so I can see it against reeds etc..



OMR

I'm just in the process of making some shotgun cartridge bobbins! I am going to just use the brass bit but add some balsa dowel where the plastic part is.

oh i see ,cool