The Traditional Fisherman's Forum

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Just ordered four packets, mainly out of curiosity....

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Old Man River wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 3:25 pm Maybe a daft question, what is an Optonic ? Something to do with upside down bottles of Scotch etc, ?


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Here you go - a bite alarm from back in the day.
They finally got an upgrade to something far better from Del Romang who later started Delkim with Kim Donaldson, another conversion was by Les Bamford along similar lines.

Here’s a pic of the original Optonics with sounder built in you could also purchase the heads with a separate sounder box.

Too fancy for me Peter, a bit of stick with a slit cut into it works fine . And they dont need batteries.

Optonics, sounds like Optics.

David.

They were the upgraded ones - SUPERs. Followed by XL versions. I think one of the first was either Lo or Hi tones.

Del converted my Optonics XLs and Herons at the same time.

I reckon Mark is going to tell us off in a minute

Still got these... still use them with my Sharpe's and a pair of Abu444a 's or Mitchell 400's or my Moredex Merlins... got them new in the early 80's.. still going strong

Perhaps not quite traditional but certainly classics Aitch

They still work fine and definitely old school, if not quite vintage...

Back to the bobbins, they were included with the Optonics for the first few years of sales. I used to stretch them apart to form a larger loop and fish them on angled needles. I never saw anyone else do that, but they worked well like that.