Know what these are?

[landingzone]

Just cleaning out some old tackle boxes and came across these. Don't know if the "youngsters" know what they are.

You're only allowed to answer if you are new to this game in the last 25 years!

[Sean Youngblood]

I would guess planer board release or down rigger release.

[stinger]

My guess is that they are clips to hold stockings on garter belts....

disclaimer: I started 22 years ago

[Tall Tails]

I think they maybe for Cheaters. Running Rebel is probably looking all over for them

[Richard]

I am going with a stacker release.

[Big Dave]

How far we have come!!

[Has Been]

I have some also.

[LongLine]

Original yellow bird clip side planner releases.

PM

Tom B.

(LongLine)

[King Slammin]

I would say stackers as well.

[navillus]

Sure do OUTDATED !!!!!!!!!

[Has Been]

I think Mac Jack made them. Bought them at Canandaigua Fishing Tackle on Ridge at Dewey.

[plecos4sale]

Yep looks like yellow bird clips

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[Jolly II]

I have some of those that came in a box that Dad brought to me this past fall. I don't ever remember us using them when I was a little squirt, so my guess would be a stacker release.

[landingzone]

The answer...... at least my answer:

"Has Been" was the closest . They are Mac Jac releases.

As near as I can remember we used these in Michigan before we had salmon in Ontario. Some of the guys used them in the Finger Lakes also. These were used as the downrigger release. We didn't usually stack them but, they were attached by the clip to the downrigger wire.

The doughnut was trapped on your main line, sliding between the rod tip and the swivel. You held on to the doughnut and slid the line through it until you had the lure back as many "pulls" as you wanted it. You then twisted the doughnut several turns to prevent it from sliding and forced it into the "U" of the clip When a fish hit, the doughnut pulled from the "U" and you had "fish on". The other thing I remember about that Lake Michigan fishing during the "American Salmon Derby" each early fall, was that we only used two kinds of lures. We either used #4 J-Plugs (lime green or silver) or silver Miller #06's (plain or hammered).

The releases were likely used in a somewhat different configuration on Yellow Birds as some have suggested.

Things have changed a little!!!

Dick

[Has Been]

They are Stacking releases that clip onto the cable . They worked ....OK. They also had some w/ a snap on instead of the clip that you attach onto the ball or use on a yellow bird. Showing my age here. Still have them in my release box.