Chas0218

Not sure if this would work for you but what about one of those flower box holders for a deck railing? Straighten it out and maybe utilize a L style anchor bolt and just insert the L shaped end under the edge of the gunnel and tighten a butterfly thumb nut to fasten. http://www.amazon.com/MINTCRAFT-GB0043-Flower-Bracket-2-Pack/dp/B003MZY4CU

I use the big game 20lbs. keeps the fleas off when they start to get bad.

Good luck in BRB I heard it has been on fire. Charter guys have been doing really well on the eyes the last couple of weeks. I don't Bass fish until July but yeah they get hit hard for the $1000 grand prize tourney next weekend. Wish they would get rid of that catch and release bass up there, they are finally starting to make a come back.

If you want get yourself a couple okuma copper rods. They are reasonably priced and I have never had an issue with mine. I started running my copper okuma rods as dipsy rods because they were a lot stiffer than my okuma downrigger rods.

Really? I didn't think it would.

On a stacker release you have a swivel like snap then 2 pinch pads. You would attach the swivel like clip to the downrigger cable then attach 1 pinch pad to the downrigger cable this is to keep the cheater from moving up or down the mainline. Then you will attach the 2nd pinch pad to the cheater line not the swivel of the cheater. Then once a fish hits it will pull the cheater out of the release then slide down the mainline to the downrigger release and pop that release and slide down the mainline the rest of the way to the lure. Below is a photo of a stacker style release.

The sliding cheater does just that it moves up and down but once it hits the bow in the line furthest from the downrigger cable it stops so you can figure it's about halfway down the vertical distance. Here i attached a very simple looking photo. It isn't very pretty but gets the point across.

You can have fixed or sliding cheaters. Fixed meaning they are fastened to you fishing line a certain distance above the lower bait. A sliding cheater is simply hooked onto the fishing line and moves down until the bow in your line. Stacked lines refer to multiple poles on the same downrigger almost like a fixed cheater but on another pole instead of being fastened to your main line. In this situation the line of the 2nd pole would be fastened at a set distance above your line of 1st pole. Cheaters are an easy way to get more hooks in the water while tournament fishing without adding more poles resulting in disqualification.

I have had a hard time keeping lakers off them at times. Last year I was targeting kings, but caught 4 lakers in 20 minutes raised the dipsys and riggers up 30 ' and they were still hammering them. Then other days you can't them to bite. But yes they produce, maybe not as good as cowbells but they catch lakers.

No crimps for me, fish doctor wire line knot for mine. 3 seasons no issues runnning 16lbs. torpedos.

Look like re-paints to me.

It's NESSY!

Just have to set the date for within season!