Sliders

[trollmonkey]

Anyone using sliders in your downrigger setups? I use them all the time spoon fishing for trout and a few times for kokes. Two spoons and a thrashing fish can get interesting in the net,dodgers and wedding rings make for bigger tangles. Even so sliders pick up high running fish that you may have missed otherwise.Anybody else a glutton for tangled gear?101chromefish101

 

[SuperD]

I'm from the west coast, define "sliders" for me.

 

[jacksonlaker]

We used to use them on Lake Ontario when fishing for Kings if the bite was slow. One trick was to lower your ball with the main line down, about 10 feet or so up clip on your slider, then use a rubber band tied in a knot around the snap on the slider leader to keep it from moving around. This way you know where it is if it gets hit. And you still have a tangled mess in the net !!!

 

[SilverBullets]

I've ran small spoons down the line on a 3' section of leader with a dou-lock snap...stops at the bow of the mainline.

 

[Petty4life]

ive always called those drop lines

 

[trollmonkey]

I usually run mine like the setup in SilverBullets pic.I haven't tried rubberbands but figure the slider runs about half way between the release and the surface. When you get hit on the slider the rod bounces like crazy.Sometimes hooksets aren't real solid ,but these are fish that aren't down where your other lures are.

 

[RalphL]

I have never been able to find rubber bands thin enough to break on the bite

 

[lowe1648mt]

Looks interesting. All I have to do is make sure that the rod has no more than two hooks in Washington.

 

[SuperD]

Poorboy Shuttlehawk.

 

[Metal Manipulator]

I have done this for ocean salmon fishing. Kokanee fishing is too buisy catching to put up with tangled messes.