defective bobber lights

I do a lot of night fishing using lit Thill bobbers. The replacement lights are expensive. I bought a dozen or so from wally world because they were cheapest there. When I got out fishing half of them were dead on arrival. At 4 bucks a crack that is not acceptable to me. so I sent our friends at Lindy Little Joe an email describing what happened. It took them a week to respond that they were sorry for my inconvenience and would ship an order. No order received in 3 weeks and questions about it go unanswered. I like these products when they work. Does anyone have a contact at Lindy little joe? I wish to discuss their customer service managers lack of customer service and ask why they discontinued the tiger tube. I am in the market for a better lit bobber system.

I’ve had exceptional customer service with Lindy. I’ll PM you the contact info I have. I think this is an issue of Wally World carrying product too long more than anything. But that’s no excuse for not sending you your replacment items. I’m sure they’ll take care of you. The last thing they want to do is upset a customer.

Thanks Joe, I’d appreciate a new contact there. I’ve used their products for years and I’ve come across quite a few bad lights. I think it is cheap packaging personally. The catfish connection has them for cheapest. I get them from them now. I recently received a batch from them that also had one bad light. I am sure they will quickly replace the bad one though.

We should sit down some day and rig a Thill to work with an LED and small (cheap) AAA battery. I bet it would take an afternoon and we could sell a bunch on Ebay.

ahhhh, who am I kidding. B/t work and the baby, I barely have time to fart properly.

Jake long time no talk. You only had one baby. you should have plenty of time and extra jack. A triple A won’t fit in there and it would likely sink

I had nothing but trouble with my thill lighted bobber batteries, I was buying them by the dozen it seemed. When they worked, great, but most of the time that bulb would stick up or down, pain in the arse to pop them up or down. Or they wouldn’t shut off. Just issues, and they aren’t that bright.

I changed to the gamakatsu firetip. Lithium battery…both my wife and I ares still on the same original battery from last summer, and we use them. Easy to shut off/turn on, just flip the battery around. The “firetip” is visible for a long, long ways and bright as heck! Fish pulls them down and the water glows, there is no…”do you see my bobber”, you know if it’s up or down, either a bright beacon on the surface or a nice glow under water…there is no doubt.
I also like the slip system better than the thills. They aren’t a cheap bobber, think I paid $12 a piece, at the time I was a little bothered by spending $24 for two bobbers, not any more…great buy. I would have spent that much on batteries if I were still running the thills.

Get the Firetip, you won’t be disappointed.

BIRDDOG

I bet the corporate ceo sacrificed quality for a quick made in china buck,quality will always keep a customer

Thanks BD, I will give those a look. The bait shop by my house just hung $5.50 a crack on the Thill lights. I get them for 3 at Catfish connection. One thing I like about the thills is their ability to handle 20lb power pro. Dealing with Lindy is like hitting yourself in the head with a hammer. One of the reason’s I am loyal to BFT and St Croix is their ability to keep me happy. I go through 6 lights an outing and am lucky to get one or two trips before they die. Plain old sucks.

I’ll 2nd the Gamakatsu best lighted bobber I have used. Gave my Thrills away. Little spendy at $13 a pop but well worth it. Then again I spend $80 on 1 muskie bait………….

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I’ll 2nd the Gamakatsu best lighted bobber I have used. Gave my Thrills away. Little spendy at $13 a pop but well worth it. Then again I spend $80 on 1 muskie bait………….

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$80 for one muskie bait? Does it get personally delivered by a hot naked chick carrying a 12 pack?

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I’ll 2nd the Gamakatsu best lighted bobber I have used. Gave my Thrills away.

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I will totally agree with that!

They make a fine hook too. I will give them a try. I like the slip through he bobber design of the thill one but so many postive experiences can’t be wrong.

Little hint cut the swivel off and just run the line through the hole in the bobber, much less fouls. I don’t use braid though so the swivel may help you there.

And no not delivered by beer bearing bikini clad women, I’d pay twice that if they were LOL. Muskie fishings an addiction, no known cure and way to expensive.

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The good folks at Lindy did eventually make this right with me by sending me replacements for the ones I got DOA. I am thankful that they are kind enough to do so just on my word alone. I hesitate to complain here about things because there are always two sides to every story. I think Joe S is a good guy and I appreciate him getting back to me.

Good luck and tight lines.

This might get you back to Thill

Thill Splash Bright

I had a chance to check out the gami bobbers over the weekend and I have good and bad. The light rides higher so you can see them better in waves. The thills wink at you the gamis do not (bonus). I do not like the one hole and swivel at the bottom of them. I ended up taking mine off and running right through the hole. This rig still fouls much too often. Mixed results. I can see either of them a long ways away. The new product looks nice but I won’t know until I get one in my hand. I could see rigging the gami light in a Thill bobber.