Flashlight bite indicator

dipbait

dipbait

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This is not my idea, I wish it was. Take a very cheap plastic two cell flashlight. Cut half the casing away where the two cells meet. Tape the fllashlight to a fishing rod. Run the string between the two cells so that there is no connection. When a bite occurs the line is pulled out , the cells connect and the light comes on. Of course this only works at night.
 
Good idea for night fishing.
For day fishing, I put a snap swivel on a bobber, then hook the open snap swivel on the line in between two eyes, and when you see the bobber go up then you got a bite. Leave the swivel open and it usually pops off when you set the hook/fight the fish.
 
I just use a night lite bobber or a small snap light on the end of my pole....I also just have one of those small cow bell thingys that clip on to the pole.... good idea dipbait but to me sounds to hard...
 
I use glow sticks attached to the line right at the tip of the rod. The sticks have a small hook at each end and I wrap it around the line. When I get a run, the light falls to the ground and alerts me.
 
The beauty of the flashlight trick is you can be tending to other things. Be 100 yds away if nesscesary.
 
dipbait said:
The beauty of the flashlight trick is you can be tending to other things. Be 100 yds away if nesscesary.
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Better secure that rod if you're 100 yards away. That'd be the very time that "Big John," the legendary 75 lb. catfish, decides to bite.
 
instead of hacking up a flashlight, you could take a simple soda can and drop a few pebbles in it. open your bail and coil the line around the can two times. when a fish hits, the coils jump off the can, and the can usually falls over.
 
Guyon said:
Better secure that rod if you're 100 yards away. That'd be the very time that "Big John," the legendary 75 lb. catfish, decides to bite.
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That EXACT scenario happened to my brother, only it was more like 5 yards. Damn fish pulled his pole about ten feet out before he snatched it up again.
 
TemplarKnight21c said:
That EXACT scenario happened to my brother, only it was more like 5 yards. Damn fish pulled his pole about ten feet out before he snatched it up again.
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You guys need better rod holders and lighter drag settings! :)

We fish for sharks from the beach on Padre Island National Seashore and I have no qualms about leaving a rod out overnight with the setup I use. Worst that's going to happen is I'll get spooled and have to replace my line. Getting a high dollar rod and reel drug out to sea would make for a very bad trip... though it has happened, just not to me.

Tight Lines!
 
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