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NEWS – Designed for recreational fishermen and family fishing, the Smart Connect fishing reel creates a new fishing experience for anglers. The reel uses Bluetooth to pair with your smartphone and the Smart Connect app. Using Bite Alert Technology, the reel sends an alert to your phone to play a tone, vibrate, light up, and/or send a message alert when it feels a bite.
You can monitor up to four Smart Connect reels at a time so you won’t miss another fish nibble while you’re grabbing a cold one from the cooler and you’ll have no more excuses about the one that got away. Priced at $119, you can find more info or buy one from Smartconnectoutdoor.com
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despite all my best efforts, my son grew up to to be a catfisherman
at a higher level of sophistication than i thought possible, but still a catfisherman
bite indicators are one of the tools in his box
often imported from “stockists” in europe targetting the coarse angler market they can be remarkably effective
i’ll send him a link to this and wait for his reaction
for someone who has used a bluetooth depth finder built into a bobber i’m sure he will be thrilled
personally…for the couple times a year i fish with coventional tackle…i’ll just sit and watch my rod tip
but i’m told that i am old and old-fashioned
i prefer… the recent venacular…old school
Craig, I showed this to a friend of mine who fishes in tournaments and he thought it was a dumb idea. FYI, he has fancy fish finders on his boat 😉
surprisingly, the current crop of “fish finders” can see them, even individuals on the edge of the weeds…but the angler still has to catch them
every pursuit has its pool of gadgets
for instance, I have a $300 fly tying vise but still use the $2 vise I started with in the early 70’s and I must have a dozen or so that I’ve tried over the years
when a friend wanted to tie his own jigs I made him a perfectly adequate vise from a scrap of plywood, a metric bolt and a 50 cent Chinese vise grip..he’s still jonesing for a more upscale tool
my box of photography paraphernalia has grown into a mobile workstation over the decades
it just goes on…I suspect that is just the byproduct of curiosity
i gust bought the smart connect bluetooth spin reel like three days ago . Never been used still in box. Sharp looking, I don’t know nothing about it.Im not bluetooth smart.I don’t have directions on how it works, the reason is I purchased it at a yard sale for $17.00
What i would like to know if some one can answer me is does it run of batteries and what are the two buttons on the back part of the reel .
Any and all info will be taken to heart,I wish to use the reel but not until i understand it more