Innovative Ideas Mans Club

[yellow door 1]

Was bombing out long casts with a heavy drop shot lead the other day.

As I was bringing it in quick for another cast I noticed a big disco ball of flashes chasing it

Switched to a metal slug after the second fish busted me off

But after that, the 20 gram metal raider took over the duties

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innovative use of hard plastics producing the goods again

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Originally Posted by yellow door 1

Plastic drinking straw
Hot glue end caps with a swivel shoved in
Red heat shrink indicator

Soaked them over night with no noticeable leaks and just did a test

took 6.8kg of pull and the swivel still held - the straw actually snapped in half first😉

[yellow door 1]

also salted up one of the worms to see what would happen

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it went pretty much as expected

Worm got shorter and tougher

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The skinny straw float takes 2.3 gram or 1/12th of an ounce to get it sitting up right. (with a bit of wiggle room left for a heavy scrub worm)

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some insert for the floats

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very snug fit

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I couldnt find my old braid reversing spools the other day so I tried doing it freestyle - what a nightmare thatDohwas.

So it was straight down to the Hardware the next day to make a new set

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Although I use a bottle top with a drill attachment and 2 litre bottle to take old line off.( Stuff that’s going in the bin.)


a guy on face book just mentioned he cuts knife grooves into a spool and then just cuts it off over a bin



so now I have a back up plan if I can’t find my bottle top

[greggo_1]

Nice work Larry.
I've got about 500mtr to do on both my shark reels, I was wondering how I was going to do it. Thanks.

[yellow door 1]

No worries - just remember the bigger the diameter - the faster the line comes off - I go fat on the big jobs