11-23-2016, 09:39 PM
[#0000FF]No problem. I was born in the state of Confusion. It's right next to the state of Hysteria.
This is just another one of my wacky experiments that has actually worked out very well. I used to use "drop shot" technique for all kinds of fish and in all kinds of water...from salt water surf fishing to fishing tandem fly rigs in freshwater streams. Also for bottom bouncing flies and jigs in lakes. But I had been using one form of sinkers or another.
On the upper Sacramento River...a whole bunch of years ago...I was fishing for big rainbows with a sinker and fly setup. Tried split shots and steelhead pencil weights until I ran out of those...to the hungry riverbed rocks. Started cutting up some clothes hangers in my vehicle, making a loop in the ends and tieing them on the end of the dropshot line with a knot that would slip free if snagged. But they just didn't snag as much. Still got the flied down to the troutskis but with fewer fish, flies and sinkers lost.
Been using them since as a cheap but effective sinker for dragging baits, flies and lures around behind my tube. Hardly ever lose a rig and it does not seem to bother the fish. In fact, the ting ting of the hanger wire moving over rocks seems to be an attractant.
Attaching a few pics that show them in better detail. I also have lots of pics in my files showing different species from different waters with varying lures and flies hanging in fish mouths...from a hangershot rig.
Lastly, just in case I did not properly address your question: The piece of hanger goes on the end of the line...in place of a dropshot weight. Then you put one or more hooks/lures/flies at the desired distance(s) above the sinker.
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This is just another one of my wacky experiments that has actually worked out very well. I used to use "drop shot" technique for all kinds of fish and in all kinds of water...from salt water surf fishing to fishing tandem fly rigs in freshwater streams. Also for bottom bouncing flies and jigs in lakes. But I had been using one form of sinkers or another.
On the upper Sacramento River...a whole bunch of years ago...I was fishing for big rainbows with a sinker and fly setup. Tried split shots and steelhead pencil weights until I ran out of those...to the hungry riverbed rocks. Started cutting up some clothes hangers in my vehicle, making a loop in the ends and tieing them on the end of the dropshot line with a knot that would slip free if snagged. But they just didn't snag as much. Still got the flied down to the troutskis but with fewer fish, flies and sinkers lost.
Been using them since as a cheap but effective sinker for dragging baits, flies and lures around behind my tube. Hardly ever lose a rig and it does not seem to bother the fish. In fact, the ting ting of the hanger wire moving over rocks seems to be an attractant.
Attaching a few pics that show them in better detail. I also have lots of pics in my files showing different species from different waters with varying lures and flies hanging in fish mouths...from a hangershot rig.
Lastly, just in case I did not properly address your question: The piece of hanger goes on the end of the line...in place of a dropshot weight. Then you put one or more hooks/lures/flies at the desired distance(s) above the sinker.
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