searun
Well-Known Member
It's winter, I'm getting bored. Itchy feet to get back on the water, so its time to start talking about getting ready for Sockeye season. Tips, ideas, best practices etc would be a good thread topic for those of us with itchy feet. Besides....sounds like DFO is expecting around 800,000 fish this year, so it should be good.
I'll start the conversation with an idea...hopefully spark a few others.
So, one of the things I like to do is run a number of dummy flashers to bring in the fish. Easy enough, just make a few up with rigger clips with flashers attached, Bob's your uncle. Only issue is either remembering to stop the rigger when you are bringing in the gear, or having the pain of using the scotty stops, which occasionally break....when that happens you got a problem. With the new high speed Scotties, that spells instant lost canon ball when the dummy flasher clip catches in the boom. The other problem with using the stops is I frequently run out to Barkley Sound to finish the day on chinook, so it is a pain to switch my rigger around - removing stops etc.
Came up with one idea that may help make the change over easy. I built an extension using 250 pound tuna cord. At the cannon ball end I tied in my usual small rigger clip to attach to the canon ball. Then every 6 feet I tied in a loop into which I plan to clip in each dummy flasher so they can't ride up and get tangled. At the top of the extension, I tied in a stainless steel ring into which my normal down rigger gangion stopper can clip into. Its a 6 foot lead with a swivel that I tie in the 200 pound power pro - the swivel acts as a stop. At the canon ball end I have the small rigger clip, which simply clips into the extension ring to hook up quickly.
Going to give it a try, and hopefully it makes my life easier when doing quick change overs from Sockeye to Chinook.
I'll start the conversation with an idea...hopefully spark a few others.
So, one of the things I like to do is run a number of dummy flashers to bring in the fish. Easy enough, just make a few up with rigger clips with flashers attached, Bob's your uncle. Only issue is either remembering to stop the rigger when you are bringing in the gear, or having the pain of using the scotty stops, which occasionally break....when that happens you got a problem. With the new high speed Scotties, that spells instant lost canon ball when the dummy flasher clip catches in the boom. The other problem with using the stops is I frequently run out to Barkley Sound to finish the day on chinook, so it is a pain to switch my rigger around - removing stops etc.
Came up with one idea that may help make the change over easy. I built an extension using 250 pound tuna cord. At the cannon ball end I tied in my usual small rigger clip to attach to the canon ball. Then every 6 feet I tied in a loop into which I plan to clip in each dummy flasher so they can't ride up and get tangled. At the top of the extension, I tied in a stainless steel ring into which my normal down rigger gangion stopper can clip into. Its a 6 foot lead with a swivel that I tie in the 200 pound power pro - the swivel acts as a stop. At the canon ball end I have the small rigger clip, which simply clips into the extension ring to hook up quickly.
Going to give it a try, and hopefully it makes my life easier when doing quick change overs from Sockeye to Chinook.
