Bobbin or swinger

[Leegii]

New to carp fishing. Bobbin or swinger, which one do you use?

 

 

[salokcinnodrog]

5 hours ago, Leegii said:

New to carp fishing. Bobbin or swinger, which one do you use?

 

 

Use the right indicator for the situation!

 

Mega tight lines at range, you might want a tension arm (Springer) indicator. It basically keeps the line tight until a take, then either 'pops off' as line is taken, or springs back down on a dropback.

A light bobbin could be perfect for fishing at short range or with running leads and a slack line.

Fish slightly further out, you could need a heavier bobbin to counteract possible undertow with tight lines.

The original Fox Mark 1 swinger was brilliant, I think the best version, you could go from zero weight to maximum weight and get extra weights on them for pretty much all fishing.

 

Now I use Solar Quiverlocs or Short Arm Titanium indicators which mostly cover me for all situations.

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I used to have a Fetish on Swingers/Bobbins....

Fox Springer Arms were pretty decent (can also adjust with weights), Fox Mini Swingers with moving weight, also good to stop wind moving any bobbin chains.

Now I'm using Sonik Bobbins and add additional weights if needed.

 

[salokcinnodrog]

20 minutes ago, Highy said:

I used to have a Fetish on Swingers/Bobbins..

 

Kinky!

🤭 

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Just now, salokcinnodrog said:

🤣🫢

Kinky!

Honestly, at 1 point I had that many different brand, styles and heads, all fitted with isotopes....

[elmoputney]

I'm a bit obsessive too, I haven't posted my latest set up yet 😳any excuse lol 

Matrix hockey sticks, MCF bike chains and my beloved Defiant MPS heads 

Probably not the most functional set I've had but they meet my own vein bobbin fetish requirements at the moment. 

[ouchthathurt]

I have always used the lightest bobbin I could get away with, using the ESP white bobbins with Steve Neville buzzers, however recently I’ve noticed that on several runs, I’ve had the bobbin jam in the roller on the buzzer which silences the alarm as the roller couldn’t spin, so I swapped them out for a set of new direction mini swingers, with an adjustable weight, they do the job nicely, as the arm stops the bobbin reaching the roller 

[andywilson123]

Using swingers myself and they work perfectly with my BiteKeeper Pro bite alarms, which have a port for the swingers!

[jh92]

Was using solar bobbins for years but I found them quite heavy, recently switched to fox stealth bobbins, they are much lighter. They are alright but don't look very carpy 🤣

Edited September 28, 2023 by jh92

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Gonna put all mine on now in order, from when I started 🙄🙄🙄🙄

That should be very 1 I've owned...so far.

[B B]

23 hours ago, elmoputney said:

I'm a bit obsessive too, I haven't posted my latest set up yet 😳any excuse lol 

Matrix hockey sticks, MCF bike chains and my beloved Defiant MPS heads 

Probably not the most functional set I've had but they meet my own vein bobbin fetish requirements at the moment. 

That chain looks like you nicked it off a Harley Davidson 😳

[elmoputney]

8 minutes ago, B B said:

That chain looks like you nicked it off a Harley Davidson 😳

Nicked off a kids bike outside the sweet shop 😎

[salokcinnodrog]

1 hour ago, elmoputney said:

Nicked off a kids bike outside the sweet shop 😎

Amateur, should have nicked his sweets as well.

 

Something about taking candy from a baby springs to mind...

[dayvid]

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Thinking of going back to the Fox Mini Swingers 🤔

[dayvid]

2 minutes ago, Highy said:

Thinking of going back to the Fox Mini Swingers 🤔

I like the Anodized black swingers by fox , but theses keep doing what they are meant too.

[salokcinnodrog]

On 30/09/2023 at 11:10, dayvid said:

Those look like the Fox mk.ll's. 

While I liked them, I did find you couldn't get the weight and arm 'balanced' by pushing the weight right to the bend as you could the mk.l