sucker fishing

[BilletHead]

             For @oneshot and alter ego @oneshot 1,

  Others too interested in this kind of stuff too.

 

 

[Johnsfolly]

Thanks @BilletHead.  For a fly guy you post a lot of bait fishing videos😁. Never heard of slinky weights but will make a bunch after seeing this video. We don't  have an abundance of suckers here in MD but that setup should work for lots of different native species😉.

[BilletHead]

14 minutes ago, Johnsfolly said:

Thanks @BilletHead.  For a fly guy you post a lot of bait fishing videos😁. Never heard of slinky weights but will make a bunch after seeing this video. We don't  have an abundance of suckers here in MD but that setup should work for lots of different native species😉.

                Always on the look out for my friends like to do.  

[Flysmallie]

Cool video! Now I need to target some suckers. 

Seems that slinky weights were a thing around here in the early 90's maybe. I remember using them a bunch for a period of time. They worked good on the lakes but I hadn't quite moved over to the rivers yet. 

[Quillback]

Slinkies were popular in Washington for steelhead and salmon fishing.  I used pencil lead myself, get some hole punch pliers, you can snip off whatever length of lead you need, flatten one end, punch a hole in the flat end and hook your swivel up.  Snaggier than the slinky, but a lot easier to make.

I would use a baitcaster too, that way you can thumb the spool and let line out to let your stuff slide down with the current.  

[ivegotafever]

They are used extensively up north to catch fall muskies.  People pay good money for them

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

That was enjoyable.   Thanks.