First, I want to give a huge THANK YOU to Joe Salvey of Fish Hawk Adventures
Joe is one of the latest guides to join the Shortbus Flashers Pro Staff, and was gracious enough to call me with an exciting idea on the flasher tangling issue. For years you’ve heard of people complain that the flasher comes back in a big tangled mess, and generally it has been attributed to letting the line out to fast or bouncing on the bottom. Well, feast your eyes on this idea!!
First, the “old way” of rigging the flasher – You can see where the typical swivel gets caught in the very tight turn of the eye causing the twising of line issue.
Now, using the same swivel, just open it completely thus allowing the swivel to pass to the other side of the swivel – as you can see, the swivel is now on an end that doesnt have the quick bends that will typically bind a swivel
Next step is to bend the duo-lock open enough to pass the “tight eye” end through the eye of the flasher
With the new rigging, here is a picture of the traditional rigging and the new suggested way of rigging, and try as you might, you cant get the swivel to bind on the duo-lock. Second benefit is the eye that is now through the eye of the flasher is small enough that it eliminates the possibility of the duo-lock getting stuck on the plastic. Third benefit is now the swivel is orientated correctly so the ball bearings are spinning as opposed to the line getting the extra twist and the open end of the swivel is “down stream”
Again, thank you so much to Joe for sharing this info and hopefully keep everyone fishing more instead of untangling lines!!
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