Fishing Bite Alarms

This article is to give the reader an insight into the different types of fishing bite alarms available, it makes no reference to which is best as each bite alarm type will have it's good and bad points.

It's main object is to give information to children set projects by their schools on the design and manufacture of fishing bite alarms.

Because of copyright, we cannot give information out on our own and other manufacturers circuits, but should the reader require additional information we will try to help, please contact us on jeff@good-fishing.co.uk

You may also find it useful visiting our main site on www.goodfishing.i12.com just click the many links on most pages.

 

The five main designs used for detecting bites are:
  1. A fishing line resting against a lever operating a switch.
  2. The fishing line placed on a rotating wheel operating an electronic switch.
  3. As option 2 but placed on a rotating cam which moves a lever to operate an electronic switch.
  4. The fishing line placed on Piezo sensor detecting vibrations.
  5. A lead with a level detecting switch, which is clipped onto the fishing line.
No 1 LEVER No 2 WHEEL No 3 CAM
No 4 PIEZO No 5 LEVER SWITCH

When purchasing or designing fishing bite alarms it is also important to consider the following points.

CASE DESIGN ADVICE BITE ALARM CARE

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