Deep drop sinkers
Submitted by Bodgy 79 on Sat, 2024-09-28 08:44
Gday,have anyone used chain for deep drop sinkers? My search turned up a few things that have been used but not much on if successfull or not.Have access to lots of chain with each link weighing a convenient 320grams
cheers for any info shared
OOH YEH
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Chain for sinkers
When I was on the trawler we used chain all the time
Faulkner Family
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Seen it done and have thaught
Seen it done and have thaught about it myself. Good thing about chain is it will rust away.
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Bodgy 79
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Just unsure if the baits
Just unsure if the baits would get a big spin up going down so deep with 4 or 5 links
cheers
blu2fish
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Have used chain
Have used heavy link chain for years deep dropping for Ruby Snapper and Greyband out from Tantabiddi even used lighter chain or less links fishing for Goldband from around 90-120 metres. last trip son got hold of very heavy bolts trimmed the head off welded half a link to attach line he reckoned it dropped faster as less resistance.
Maverick
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Spin
If you are worried about spin then put a swivel between your rig and the chain, just buy some big cheap barrel swivels and the swivel could be your weakest link so if the chain gets caught up on something the swivel lets go and you get your rig back, there are some pretty funky jigs out there that do all sorts of shit on the way down and it's pretty negligable the amount of spin/twist when fishing with them.
If your using braid you really dont want a lot of twist and it can mess up the twist in the braid.
I learnt that the hard way, I was trolling with a lure that got hooked to the leader line and was spinning out the back for about 10 minutes until I spotted it, when I wound it in my braid was like it had unwound itself, I had to replace about 75m of PE8. It didn't do any damage to the strenth but it just looked and felt wrong, I run all my lines over a scale so I know how much strain it can take till failure with the knots I will be using then I set my drag to about 1/3rd of that, caught some big fish with this , as long as you don't let the line slack while bringing the fish in you know that it wont break the line, if you want some extra drag to turn its head you can just palm the spool then back to the preset drag to continue the fight.
When I was a kid my brother in law ran a car mechanic shop and we would use spark plugs for sinkers when fishing for reef fish, we would run some cheap 12lb mono to the sinker from the main line and we had heaps of cheap spark plug sinkers so a bust off didn't matter.
Good idea if you can get it cheap or free, I wouldn't think it would spin too much tho.
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scubafish
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Hydrolight tubes
Hydrolight contaners filled with concrete s/s wire as a eye down the middle.
Could even pull out(when dry) and use as a mould.
Mix small blue metal in also with concrete.
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