Just had this idea thought that my using a free running indicator witha buzzer on a long leader let it sink down to the bottom and pull it up and will come straigh up to the surface the way natural hatching buzzer would?

Comments welcome

First thought is that the indicator would need to be very bulky and extremely free running to stop it coming in at you when you retrieve.

Could just use a sliding float

As soon as you pull the line that indicator is going to come towards you across the water surely, and you would still be lifting it at an angle.

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heya flyinghigh,

I have had the same idea for trying to get a buzzer to rise vertically instead of at an angle and tried a few things out at the end of last season. As other posters have said it is very difficult to decrease the drag you get enough to not pull the indicator towards you and hence pull the buzzers at an angle. I think it works to a certain degree and plan to work on it a bit more in the coming months. I reckon a big sliding carp float with a long rod at short distance would work a treat now i just need to refine and scale it down a bit!

Just use one of these, the buzzer can rise and fall to your hearts content ;

Oh dear, I think your trying to over complicate things here.
I only just got over seeing them indicators floating around! now floats
I think there should be a rule saying all sight bobs and floats should have a hook.
But each to his own.

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Funny someone should show a picture of pole fishing - I have a 16 metre pole and have often wondered if I put three feet of fly line on the end, followed by the leader and some buzzers, if that would be "fly fishing"

Not that different than Czech nymphing, which is really whip fishing after all

Charlie

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Perhaps a frog hair indicator, but rather than pull the wire loop out, secure it and simply thread the leader through the wire loop. This should reduce drag?

Just I thought and I maybe wrong, but a naturally rising buzzer wouldn't rise in a completely vertical way unless they was absolutely no movement in the underwater currents and in a way would then look unnatural.
A naturally rising buzzer would surely be subjected to under water currents, rising and falling, drifting with any under tow etc...

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