Dont loose it Chip it This is a microchip transponder. It is about the size of a grain of rice and is bioglass encapsulated. The transponder has an unalterable ID number programmed into it and it will only give that number up to a scanner designed to read it.\nA microchip can!\nPolice forces have scanners to read our microchips and some of the more enlightened fishing clubs and lakes have, or are getting the scanners as they get involved with chipping their own fish for management and fish security.\nhow does it work Through the unique ID number written to the microchip during manufacture. When you implant a chips4fish microchip and register it on the national database you give that fishing rod or reel an indisputable home address.\n