Thingamabobber: Strike Indicators
I have been using this new strike indicator for the past few months and think its pretty killer especially for winter. The thingamabobber is a plastic bubble that comes in different colors. It is high vis, easy to adjust and very sensitive. The closest thing I can compare it to is a balloon. Check ‘em out.
Joey,
I am glad that you like them. They are especially effective when fishing killer midge patterns like the Sha Sha Shuck midge and the zimzilla flouro fiber midge.
long live the bobber! … i love it when people say “oh, indicator fishing is like fishing with a bobber” .. i say, “EXACTLY, that’s why i love it” …. seriously, if we all think back to our earliest fishing memories .. at some point .. the “bobber” comes into play … i persoanlly remember riding my bike a couple miles to get live shiners (minnows) from a bait shop .. i’d then post up on my favorite log pile with my fishin’ rod and bobber and prodceed to hook a live shiner through the lips and fire the bobber with shiner under it out into the lake/pond. then i would watch as the bobber jiggled around from the movement of the shiner .. and waited for the shiner to just get pumbled by something big .. and when that happened the bobber would just dissapear fromt the surface of the water ….. that was so much fun as a kid .. and i personally love the fact that the same premise and effect can be achieved when fly fishing with a strike indicator and flies in a river for trout or steelhead …. additionally, i would argue that a indicator (nymph) fly fishing is infact one of the harder fly fishing methods … i know lots of great dry fly fisherman and spey fisherman who swing flies for atlantic salmon and steelhead who admit that nymphing for them is tough … for me, nymphing and indicator fly fishing was the toughest learning curve .. lots of variables such as length of leader, how many shots, getting the perfect dead drift and relying on feel and knowing what is going on below the water rather than what i could see .. proved to be more of a challenge for me than hucking a streamer (not much different than a lure with a spin rod) or a dry fly (everything is visual, see the fish and see the fly) into the river … love the bobber.