The old Kiwi method was fraught with far more danger. The line would be curled into the bottom of a bucket.

I'm still trying hard to work out how to fix an armed warhead to the nose of an electric torpedo, this to scuttle all the inshore trawlers I am told work our Napier shores.

The device in the video could be the answer to an angler's prayer, especially when surfcasters set up their gear within twenty metres of you and then proceed to cast in every direction other than straight, or fail to put on enough weight or grip leads when there is a current running.

Yes, this device has considerable, meaningful advantages. It doesn't take the fun out of fishing
in fact it has considerable possibilities.