Lindy Marker Buoy for Fishing - Internal Ballast Weights and 60 ft of Rot-Proof Cord

This is a good, easy to use marker in relatively still water. Where there is a light to fair amount of chop, like in Tampa Bay, combined with a little current movement, the design does not work too well. The buoy is weighted on the line, and also has loose weights in the barbell. The idea is that the weighted line will spin the barbell, peeling off enough line to get to the bottom. Then it will stop because of the resistance of the free moving weights in the barbells (which cause the buoy to "self-level" with the weights resting on the bottom). If a little wave action comes along, the buoy will likely still hold bottom, and instead just peel off a little more line. No problem in still water... the buoy will still be close to mark. But if there's some current, the line will peel off, pull taught in the direction of the current, peel off some more with the next wave, pull taught, etc etc. So it will effectively appear to drift with the current until all the line runes out. To make it more usable in these conditions, you'd have to let it spool off manually to the bottom, spool of a few more feet to account for the waves/swells, then clamp (rubber band) the remaining line to the buoy so it won't spool off any more.

pretty good item for the price.... we used these to mark dive sites while out spearfishing. I replaced the line as soon as I got them because it seemed very thin and I also replaced the lead weight with a 2 lb. lead dive weight to be sure the marker didn't drage the weight along the bottom. I did notice the buoy would continue to spool off line in rough seas (2-3' waves) and this caused us to have to circle back and loop the line to prevent additional line from coming off the spool. Worked well for what we needed... hit our dive site every time.

Works great

the lead weight fell off after second use, it actually started to float away.

Very sturdy! Love the Yellow.

Works well

products made well just not for what i was going to use it for

While it is a PITA to retrieve the line from 30 or more feet down (seems like it takes forever to rewind it) this does the job it is intended to do.