Battery powered Float

[Pickerel]

Hi
Came across this float this during a tackle sort out (who isn't at the moment...!

It is powered by a couple of watch batteries and is marked Brit Pat 1494953.

Other than that, I have no idea...! If it is of any interest to anyone on here, send me a pm and I will stick it in the post.

Regards - Pickerel

[Thameside]

If possible could I have it. Have sent you a pm

[Santiago]

I've caught many tench and carp using that model when I was a teenager night fishing at a local pond in York. I belive they first came out in the late seventies. I well remember going to Boots to find earing aid batteries for this float. Eventually the electronics went!

[Nigel Rainton]

I remember those floats. Very heavy to cast and they leaked.

[Barbulus]

I remember them too. They were novel at the time and great fun the first time you cast out into the darkness. After a while though your eyes started to "play tricks" and I found I could then see two of them ... or it kept moving ... and then if it dipped it was difficult to then figure out if it was a genuine bite or not as the light still shone under the surface .... great fun. I think I went back to free-lined par boiled potatoes at that point. A delightful piece of angling "technology" though and it will give hours of fun if used or a fine talking point if put on the display shelf .....

[Nigel Rainton]

My mate bought one, it triggered my imagination. I cut the top off a stick float and glued a beta light in the cut end. It was quite easy to see the bites because I shotted it so that it would lay at an angle on the surface which formed an arrow shape with its reflection. It was great for tench in the margins.

[Aquaerial]

I still use a battery powered 'lady finger' vibrator attached to my wire trace and inserted into a headless mackerel for Pike.
It works very well but there is no telling whether or not I would have caught anyway apart from my catch rate is better than others on the club gravel pit where I use it.

[Kev D]

I still use a battery powered 'lady finger' vibrator attached to my wire trace and inserted into a headless mackerel for Pike.
It works very well but there is no telling whether or not I would have caught anyway apart from my catch rate is better than others on the club gravel pit where I use it.

OMG! As they say in instant media circles . Above lays a wellhead of potential double entenre!
If this wasn't Gentlemens' forum someone would already have made a comment about "Sorting out the big girls. "..........

[Liphook]

[Thameside]

first time you cast out into the darkness. After a while though your eyes started to "play tricks" and I found I could then see two of them ... or it kept moving ... and then if it dipped it was difficult to then figure out if it was a genuine bite or not as the light still shone under the surface .... great fun.

We used to get the train from Waterloo station to Hampton Court & night fish where the river Molle met the Thames. This one night a friend's brother produced one of these magic floats that left us in awe of it(when you are 11 years old) As they were out of our price range & with winter coming ,which ment no more night fishing they were soon forgotten.