JOHN ROBERTS RANGE FINDERS, REGULAR AND BIG PIT John Roberts has produced some terrific little innovations over the years and these latest products rate amongst those that invite the comment, “Why didn’t I think of that?” Casting to tight spots has always been a problem. It can be bad enough in daylight, when you can see what you’re doing, but in poor light, or at night, it’s often a case of ‘chuck and chance it’. So we have to make a good cast, place the line in the line clip of the spool, and thereafter you overcast slightly and wait for the line to come up against the clip and brake the cast at exactly the right distance. But the problem is that when you hook a fast-running fish there is always a danger of getting broke when the fish can’t take line because it’s clipped up. So another answer has been to use an elastic band on the spool, which doesn’t really apply enough pressure to brake the cast enough to stop it dead. Bits of tape, dabs of Tippex, and other things have been tried, but none of them very effective. So when John Roberts produced his Range Finders it was a case of “Yes! That’s exactly what’s needed.” There are two types, ‘Regular’ and ‘Big Pit’ and they both work on the same principle. With the ‘Regular’ you cast past the right spot, remove the reel spool and put the Range Finder on from the back of the spool, and position it so that the loop lines up with the clip on the spool. You then stretch the loop over the clip and wind the line back over the band. The next step is to cast to the exact spot, release the loop from the clip, place the line behind it and then stretch the loop back into the clip, trapping the line. You can now mark the line if you wish so that if you have to release the line to a running fish you’ll know where to clip it up again. The ‘Big Pit’ version works in exactly the same way except that the tab is trapped under the line instead of there being a complete loop that goes over the spool.
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