Shaun Harrison   - "Right from the very first time I heard about the ATTs alarms I liked the sound of them. I am not one for changing tackle very often as anyone who knows me will vouch for. Once I find something I like I take a lot of persuading to change – in my mind replacement of tackle has to give me advantages over my existing gear.

The remote system I had been using I had used for many years and to be fair I had been more than pleased with them until last winter when I started to get odd problems whilst fishing a very large pit which would throw the odd wave over the alarms – okay, perhaps a bit of an extreme situation but a situation none the less. It didn’t matter how high the rods were these waves would hit the solid fronts to the swims and throw water many feet into the air. The result of this appeared to be a loss of sensitivity controls and then crackling and then nothing until I was able to completely dry them again.

I had been on the look-out for something which may withstand this total abuse and then heard about the ATTs’s. They certainly sounded like they could be worth a try and had the features I like – no sound whatsoever out of the heads (I have always been paranoid about the sound from the heads transmitting through the water be it through the bank sticks or possibly down the line) and 100% weather proof, they even worked after total immersion in water. In fact it goes one better than that. During one of the tests carried out on them by a magazine the alarms were soaked in water then put into the deep freeze. When they thawed out they still worked. Suffice to say – I put my name down for a set.

The day they arrived I was more than impressed. I’m by no means a tackle tart but the size of them was unbelievable – they are tiny and I must admit looked brilliant on my bars! But I have long gone past the point of using gear because it looks good.
Here we are coming out of a full winters use and I have been delighted with my new alarms. So much so I was confident enough in their performance to take these along with me for a two week trip to Texas fishing for Buffalo Carp. Now that trip has totally sold the alarms to me and convinced me I will be using them for some time to come. We had absolute extremes of weather conditions whilst out there. Hot shorts weather some days but frosts every night then a massive change in conditions which saw lots of ice rain (not experienced that one before) minus 12 degrees and a minus 19 wind chill factor – YES MINUS 19!

The night the temperatures really plummeted I ended up winding my rods in. I was catching the odd channel catfish and it was simply getting too un-comfortable to un-hook them in the near Artic conditions. I guess that is the writers way of saying that I could have cried with the pain of the cold biting winds on my wet hands. It was atrocious and for the first time in my life I gave up trying to fish and retired to my bivvy for the night and shut out the wild outside world. The following morning I was greeted to a complete ‘ice out’ of which I have never seen before. I tried to pick a rod up but it was frozen in the rests. I got that free and found the reels were frozen solid – they wouldn’t wind. My alarms were just one big ice ball!

The morning was spent dismantling reels and generally trying to thaw things out. Once the ice thawed and fell away from the alarms allowing the moving parts to move they all worked perfect . Unfortunately Ron Key who was fishing with me had several problems with his alarms after this extreme test and never got them working properly again for the rest of the trip.

So, in short - yes I love the alarms and no I won’t be changing them for the foreseeable future.

Best fishes
Shaun Harrison "