SKS Alarm and receiver set
First thing you’ll notice about this bite alarm kit is the free bivvy ligh. Offering standard illumination, it’s also paired with all the alarms in the set so it will turn on when you get a beep at your rods. Features include two super-bright LEDs in the ears – one illuminates for a run, while the other lights up when you get a drop-back bite. Direction of line movement is signalled with a different tone.
Two smaller bulbs under the roller wheel also light up when you get a bite, and these can also be switched on permanently as a subtle ‘night light’. There are six different volume settings (plus silent mode); four sensitivity levels;
a low-battery warning and seven tone adjustments.
Collar locks on the screw threads make lining up units on your buzzer bars simple. The battery compartment has a plastic slide-off door with no rubberised seal, but it’s a snug fit and Sonik claims 100 per cent waterproofing.
Price: £149.99
Pro logic smx alarms
In a cased set of three with a wireless receiver, these alarms offer everything that the modern carp angler desires. There are LED visuals for drop-back indications and telescopic snag ears. Other features include five volume levels, four sensitivity adjustments and seven tone settings, plus diamond-shaped rollers and super-bright LEDs. The tiny receiver has a memory functionand it can operate on either silent or vibrate mode. There’s also a courtesy night light. Both alarms and receiver take 2AAA 1.5v batteries.
Price: £139.99
Delkim 25-Plus fishing bite alarms
Delkim 25-Plus. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of its bite alarms with vibration sensing, Bedford-based specialists Delkim has produced a Special Edition alarm.
Based upon the existing Standard Plus mode,l they feature a special silver metallic oval logo, silver dial stickers, silver protective hard case and a silver box.
All Delkim bite alarms, past and present, use the unique system which is able to indicate proportionally, both the speed of linear line movement plus vibrations from rod tip ‘nods’ and terminal tackle that do not always move the line.
The almost infinite range of sensitivity adjustment can be finely-tuned to suit all conditions, methods and user preferences so other anglers are not disturbed.
“The original idea for the Delkim Vibration Sensing System actually came to me in the middle of the night back in about 1983, I think in a dream,” commented Chairman and Managing Director, Del Romang.
“The rest, as they say, is history including the virtually annual awards for the Delkim Tx-i as Best Bite Alarm. To be able to celebrate 25 years of Delkim Vibration Sensing in 2017 is something I could never have imagined and is a landmark that I am justifiably proud of,” he added.
www.delkim.co.uk.
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£69.99 to £74.99
TF Gear Soundwave waterproof bite alarms
TF Gear’s new Soundwave waterproof alarms are made from a toughened ABS polymer plastic.
You get unfailingly reliable roller-wheel systems, tone, volume and sensitivity controls, and a universal latching LED light in a choice of seven available colours.
Power-out sockets allow them to be used with most recognised illuminated indicator systems.
Price: £149.99 the set
