Product Review: Fish Pimp Strike Indicators
Fish Pimp fly fishing products. Keep your pimp hand strong.
Last month, at the International Sportsman’s Expo in Salt Lake I met Quentin, the guy behind Fish Pimp. He has a really nice product line including a cool line cleaning system that hooks onto your rod, a two part powder based fly drying and floatant system, Fly Sauce, and a cool take on cork indicators. He was kind enough to give me some free products to match any that I purchased from dealers at the show. I bought some Fly Sauce and the medium strike indicators and he gave me the smaller indicators and dry fly spray.
On my recent trip to the Green River I was able to use the stuff for the first time. Overall I was pleased with the products. I have been nymphing for a long time and have tried all kinds of methods/products for strike indicators. I tend to like the foam cork ones as they float high, are responsive, and are easy to add to or take off of your line. The Fish Pimp indicators really fit the bill well. Instead of a toothpick to hold them in place, they use tightly fitted lengths of tiny surgical tubing. I found that they were effective indicators and we definitely caught our share of fish even with many subtle strikes. The larger indicators stayed in place well and were easy to adjust up or down the leader. I had one issue with the smaller sized indicators when I applied one to the lower end of my leader to help me fish a tiny emerger. I ended up casting it off after about 5 or 6 casts, which was a bummer. I may have had it on a section of leader that was too light and slipped out of the tubing. The indicators have a dimpled surface and I’m not sure if that is more for casting or for surface tension or what, but I can report that even the larger indicators casted well.
As for the floatants, I will probably have to write another review to cover them better as I didn’t have to use them much on this last trip, but for the bit that I used them, they performed admirably. The great part about Fly Sauce is that it stays viscous no matter the temperature which is great in the winter when you really need floatant and it is all set up at the bottom of the bottle. Even on a wintry day as my last trip, the floatant dispensed effortlessly from the bottle.
In all, I would recommend these products, particularly the Fly Sauce for it’s free flowing blend. I think that the strike indicator product space is probably pretty difficult to really stand out from all of the others on the market, but the design and dispenser tube for the Fish Pimp Strike Indicators were nice and they worked well. Track some down for yourself and give them a try. Good fishing and in the immortal words of Snoop Doggy Dogg, “Keep your pimp hand strong!”
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