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| Here's a cool trick I learned from this yooper dude....it works GREAT. I use this while casting another rod at the same time.
A med length xtra heavy action rod is held in a rod holder at a 90* angle from the side of the boat. 6500C4 with 80# powerpro tied to a large swivel. The quick strike rig is attached to the other side of the swivel. A rubberband goes thru one hole in the swivel, and a bell sinker is attached to the other end of the rubberband. This makes the 80# powerpro drop straight down from the boat, and when the boat is drifting, or if you are using your trolling motor while casting, then the quickstrike rig is at a 90* angle relative to the powerpro. The quick strike rig has 60#sevenstrand, or 80# sevenstrand, and is about 2.5' long. Now picture the quickstrike rig...about 12"from the swivel there's a small (1") bright (oranger or yellow) colorado blade, then a bead then a crimp. So, the blade is held in place. 10" further down is a 3X single hook, the wire just passes thru the hook eye and the wire is held against the hook shank by heavy duty shrinkwrap. This lead hook is somewhat adjustable, with force you can slide it up and down the wire. The wire continues down thru a 3X treble then a bead and then a crimp. The bead/bead holds that treble in place. The wire continues down another 6-8" to the terminal treble and that one is just crimped.
The beauty of the deal is that the sucker swims lazy, about 5' straight down from the side of the boat. You can adust the weight of the bell sinker, depending on how fast you are moving, to maintain the 90* angle between the powerpro and the quickstrike rig. The small colorado blad slowly lop lops around and a good set up will have the sucker slowly swimming along, back and forth from the left to the right. If you happen to go over some tall weeds just lift up on the rod and up comes the sucker toward the surface so no weed tangles. With the 6500C4 you can turn on the "baitclicker" and hit the freespool, so while the rod is in the holder a fish can grab your bait and start swimming away while you set down your casting rod and grab the quickstrike rod.
Pretty cool, eh? |
