Greg Posted December 9, 2008 Posted December 9, 2008 I've been using thingamabobber's in the small and large sizes for the last several months. Best indicators I've used - and I've tried them all. The best thing to me is the durability. They just don't seem to wear out. Greg "My biggest worry is that my wife (when I'm dead) will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it" - Koos Brandt Greg Mitchell
Members TroutSchool Posted December 10, 2008 Members Posted December 10, 2008 These ping-pong-ball look-alikes are fantastic strike indicators. I use the medium sized about 2' above an overweighted sowbug to much success in the White River Tailwaters.
brittsnbirds Posted March 6, 2009 Posted March 6, 2009 B-Ray, Hit me with the link to your source for the rubber bands. Are they like the ones my kids had on their braces? Pat
Snow Fly Posted March 7, 2009 Posted March 7, 2009 Well we fished the North Fork of the White on Sun, Mon, & Tues. with my friend using the TMB's. I thought that was the weirdest thing I have seen yet for fishing.......Well I broke off in the rocks, and he handed his extra rod to me with the TMB attached, I thought to myself "This is not going to work for me". Well as many of you have said already it was very sensitive to the bite, cast well, hit the water without a wake being made. floated high and dry, and no problem with it sliding but we were using 2X leaders. We used the 3/4" with two weighted #4 Stone Flies, a beaded Soft Hackle and two A shots and it stayed right up on top of the water .......I have to say I ran out and bought both sizes today. Like the idea with the bands, maybe my granddaughter will have a few around for the old guy! "God gave fishermen expectancy, so they would never tire of throwing out a line"
Members warlock Posted March 7, 2009 Members Posted March 7, 2009 B-Ray, Hit me with the link to your source for the rubber bands. Are they like the ones my kids had on their braces? Pat Here's a link to an ebay search for them. Orothodontic rubber bands on ebay Not sure what size you would need, but several are listed
Snow Fly Posted March 7, 2009 Posted March 7, 2009 My daughter said you can also find them at Walgreens............ "God gave fishermen expectancy, so they would never tire of throwing out a line"
XP 590 Posted March 9, 2009 Posted March 9, 2009 I tried them last weekend for the first time, my dad bought me a pack and they seemed like a great idea. I loved the wording on the package about the revolutionary new "trapped air technology". That's a marketers term for a plastic bubble. I couldn't get the thing to stay in place no matter what I tried. I read and re read the instructions and it still slid with almost every cast. I was fishing a weighted nymph below it. I tried it on both the butt section and the tippet section and it always slid. I've read some of the solutions on here to modify it with orthodonic rubber bands but my solution is not to buy a product that doesn't work. If they are working for you, and I'm missing something, please advise. Thanks
drew03cmc Posted March 11, 2009 Posted March 11, 2009 One way to ensure they don't slip is to put it on the way you normally do, then twist the tippet and send the balloon back through. It will not move! Andy
XP 590 Posted March 11, 2009 Posted March 11, 2009 One way to ensure they don't slip is to put it on the way you normally do, then twist the tippet and send the balloon back through. It will not move! Thanks Andy, that sounds like a solution that will work. I'll try that this weekend.
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