Pager Calls When Fish Bite

Pager Calls When Fish Bite MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT Miscellaneous 28-6-10 Joe Steele of St. Louis, Mo., says he's the worst fisherman in the world. He finds it boring so he's always taking off to do other things instead. The amazing thing is that he still catches plenty of fish, thanks to his simple-to-build automatic fish pager invention. He simply put together a small wood stand that holds both his fishing pole and a walkie talkie. "When a fish bites, the linedepresses the call button on the walkie talkie. It calls me up to five miles away," he explains. Steele says he was on vacation once and sitting in the lodge having a drink when it went off. People asked him what it was. He said it was an automatic fish pager. They didn't believe him, so he went and got the fish, put it in a plastic bag, and brought it back to show them. "The wife's not happy when it goes off at three in the morning, especially when you bring the fish in and put it in a sink full of water," he laughs. "When she turns on the light in the kitchen the next morning, it splashes all over." According to Steele, it took only about an hour to build, and it worked the first time he tried it. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Joe Steele, 917 Westwold Ave., St. Louis, Mo. 63135 (ph 314 521-2042).

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