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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | This post might have been better placed under the modification thread, but may have a life of it's own, we'll see.
I know probably 90% of you guys, especially tourney guys, use In-Line boards as your means of getting cranks away from the boat. I do so to in the spring, when night trolling on the Saginaw Bay. Few things beat the convenience of those little rascles, especially when you have to attach lights to their flags to see where they are and when you have a fish on.
But in the summer I use the Big Jon Otter Boats from my charter boat. I run anywhere from 8 to 10 lines in total, 4 to 5 lines per side. I use the bright Orange Larson releases that slide down the tether line. But I also loop tie a rubber band on the mainline line after I get the length I want out, bite off the tag end, and then pinch the release to the rubber bands tag end.
I've found that both the strike cusion and readability the rubber bands give me, is awsome. Rather there is a weed fouling the line, or a small trash fish or walleye on the lure, all can be read simply by the amount of stretch in the rubber band.
I know this (keel hauling) of the fish for hours can often be a problem to detect to both the trained and the untrained eye, when using In-Lines or any boards for that matter. Whereas the rubber band give you instant feedback. I even have different colors to show up better in light or dark day situations.
Any of you guys use rubber bands for releases, and how?
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| Back when I was younger and without much extra money for tackle, I would go salmon fishing out on Lake Michigan around Two Rivers, Manitowac area with my old 16' jon boat and clamp on Big John downriggers. We use to use rubber bands and paper clips as stackers on our downrigger cables. We'd loop a rubber band around the cable at the depth we wanted and back thru itself and then clip the paper clip on to the fihing line after we ran the plug back 20-30' and spin about 10-15 wraps in the line with the clip and that was then clipped onto the rubber band. When a fish hit the plug, the rubber band would snap, the twist in the main line would unwrap and the clip would slide down to the end of the line where the fish was! I bet you could do the same thing with boards except you would use 2 clips and 1 rubber band. Run your line out as far as you want, put the clip on your line and spin your wraps, then put the second clip on your tow line and connect the two with the rubber band. Let the clip slid down the tow line how ever far you want and put the rod in the holder. It would be alot cheaper than buying a bunch of those releases. |
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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Jack.
Thats a very reasonable idea allright. Bad part is these old eyes would have a hard time picking out a paper clip and the band as it slid down the tether line to the planner board, versus that Bright Orange floater on the Larson releases. I used to use a simple shower curtain ring in conjuction with the rubber bands, but found the Larsons both easier to release and adjust for rough seas when placed in the aligator type release clips.
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| Believe me, I know what you're saying. I just had an eye exam 2 weeks ago, and they haven't gotten any better.
It was nice when I was younger because for about 3 dollars I had every thing I needed for about 150 releases! |
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Location: Wind lake, Wi | dan- I'm not to familar with all this but I was thinking, try dipping the rubber bands in glow paint so they are easier to see. Mabey I'm wrong or not thinking on the right track but it was just a thought! Good luck!!
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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Fever.
Rubber bands tend to break down, break easy or always get weaker when anykind of chemical is put on them. I was using spike-it to dye them Pink, Yellow and orange for a while. But again, they started to both break and bleed to easy from the dipping. I just finall order 10,000 from a company and had them send them in different colors. Works great.
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Location: McFarland, WI | Since we fish on the cheap when possible, I use shower curtain clips to slid down my my lines to the skiis and attach the rubber bands to the line and loop on the clips. You can thread rubber band through a small foam bobber for improve visibility where rubber band is attached to line. When a fish hits the band breaks and the clip just stays on the line. You loose the bobber but I use cheap or broken ones. We add new clips until we run out and then we retrieve them all and start over. Metal clips slide easily, I have never tried plastic ones.
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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Originally written by Larrys on 2004-01-22 10:19 AM
Since we fish on the cheap when possible, I use shower curtain clips to slid down my my lines to the skiis and attach the rubber bands to the line and loop on the clips. You can thread rubber band through a small foam bobber for improve visibility where rubber band is attached to line. When a fish hits the band breaks and the clip just stays on the line. You loose the bobber but I use cheap or broken ones. We add new clips until we run out and then we retrieve them all and start over. Metal clips slide easily, I have never tried plastic ones.
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Larrys.
You described exactly the way I first started out using the rubber bands. And the bobber idea sounds like it would work great, but when running charters with 10 lines out, the eye thing along with precise setting needs to be quick and easy as spacing is imparitive. You aint seen a mess until you see 5 lines attached to 10 lures in a ball. I still have 4 boxes of number 16 bands, the perfect size for the shower curtain manuever. Half are still dyed shocking pink, my favorite bright day color.
For a while I experimented with building my own releases. As the drop back angle to my Otter Boat boards is not very steep. Tried all types of material for the wire part, to make the releases slide down the tether line the fastest and easiest. Hardly nothing beats the stainless steel used by the Lawrsen release guys for (snot slippery) sliding. 
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