FisherTim
Active Member
After loosing a couple of nice salmon to frayed hoochie leaders this year, I decided to do something about it.
Where I fish, there are quite a few dogfish around, and they cut through 25# Mono, or even Fluro like a hot knife through butter. Even when no dogs are around, I found that springs have insanely sharp teeth, and after a few hookups, your trailing hook is gone, so you have to re-tie. Furthermore, I have found that for different fish and depths, you need different leader lengths, it's easy to go shorter, but as soon as you want to go long again, you have to re-tie.
After thinking about it for a few days, the Idea came to me when Halibut fishing, Wire leaders. Obviously people don't use wire leaders for salmon, because they are way to stiff, and you can't wrap them around the flasher, as many of us do to store lures.
So this is what I came up with:
This is a 2.5", it has a single 3/0 Gamakatsu(My favourite, and in my opinion best hook) crimped onto 175# Test Wire, with a glow bead, and a 60# test snap on the front.
I also have 4.5" ones, these have 2 4/0 Gamakatsu Barbless octopus hooks crimped onto the same setup, except it's a little longer, and has 3 glow beads.
I've been fishing these for a while, and cary 28, 36, 48, 60" leaders with a loop on both sides in my tackle box.(You can store them nicely in straws, especially if you colour-code them) this way you can switch out a leader length, or lure, in a matter of seconds, and these are much easier to store in any tackle box, as they don't tangle up.
I just want to see if anybody's interested, I was thinking $4 each, or 3 for $10 for the 2.5" Squirts. And $5 each/3 for $12. For 4.5" ones. That's cheaper than any pre-rigged hoochies in stores.
Thanks for Looking!
(I don't mean to take away from anybody currently selling leaders, but wanted to throw my Idea out there)
Where I fish, there are quite a few dogfish around, and they cut through 25# Mono, or even Fluro like a hot knife through butter. Even when no dogs are around, I found that springs have insanely sharp teeth, and after a few hookups, your trailing hook is gone, so you have to re-tie. Furthermore, I have found that for different fish and depths, you need different leader lengths, it's easy to go shorter, but as soon as you want to go long again, you have to re-tie.
After thinking about it for a few days, the Idea came to me when Halibut fishing, Wire leaders. Obviously people don't use wire leaders for salmon, because they are way to stiff, and you can't wrap them around the flasher, as many of us do to store lures.
So this is what I came up with:
This is a 2.5", it has a single 3/0 Gamakatsu(My favourite, and in my opinion best hook) crimped onto 175# Test Wire, with a glow bead, and a 60# test snap on the front.
I also have 4.5" ones, these have 2 4/0 Gamakatsu Barbless octopus hooks crimped onto the same setup, except it's a little longer, and has 3 glow beads.
I've been fishing these for a while, and cary 28, 36, 48, 60" leaders with a loop on both sides in my tackle box.(You can store them nicely in straws, especially if you colour-code them) this way you can switch out a leader length, or lure, in a matter of seconds, and these are much easier to store in any tackle box, as they don't tangle up.
I just want to see if anybody's interested, I was thinking $4 each, or 3 for $10 for the 2.5" Squirts. And $5 each/3 for $12. For 4.5" ones. That's cheaper than any pre-rigged hoochies in stores.
Thanks for Looking!
(I don't mean to take away from anybody currently selling leaders, but wanted to throw my Idea out there)
