Posted By: Rowdy
New drift sinkers - 04/18/23 04:40 PM
Guys I have been messing around with a new way to make a more sleek and thinner profile of drift sinker that I hope would pull through cover better and not make such a disturbance on the bottom and yet be able to get the weight we need in some circumstances.
Some of the weights I have used Offshore in the Gulf while fishing for certain species of fish, during the attempt at trying to land them, we used break away sinkers that would fall off. The fish thrashing around as some do, would actually use the size of the sinker to throw the hook and loose the fish.
So a sacrificial sinker has always been something I keep in mind. With the drifting through the flooded timber and rocks, I have always rigged my stuff with like a 10lb or so sinker line that allowed the sinker to pull off easy enough to hope save the rest of my rigging.
Now I have been messing around with a new slimmer profile and one that bends easy enough to come through the cover. Slim enough I can drift through old flooded timber it has proven really good so far. I make these longer than I did in the beginning to help stop the sinker from tree limb wrapping as it pulls over and through some and then just swinging all around the next limb.
These also dry much quicker than the one's I have made with shot and braided nylon mesh. I have yet find myself in a cover they don't come right through. That ain't saying I have not lost some, but these things are really working well enough I wanted to show you guys.
The one I have shot a few pix of here is a 3oz sinker. It's 16" long and 3/16" in diameter to get this weight. With how I make these I can do these in any diameter and length, just this size right now with the depth of water I fish and the size of bait I am using has proven so far really well. With the 3oz size being more than enough for me so far, and 2oz has been the more used size here lately. I have yet to get any really good sized bait.
So I had to build a jig to make these and I bought a lot of these small brass eyes that I use to terminate them to the sinker line. Jury still out on the brass eyes at this point, I may go to a galvanized or stainless steel on the next ones, not sure yet.
Anyway, want to get any and all feed back from you guys here. My thought when I started these was like a sinking line would make a great sinker. Sinking line being like those for fly rods. With nothing but a sinking line, that thing would drift and tow or pull through pretty much anything. It's the length of those sink lines to get our bait to and keep in contact with the bottom that was the issue. So I thought why not use some lead that was smaller than most sinkers, something like really small worm weights, just a long solid bendable weight. Here is what I have so far...
Some of the weights I have used Offshore in the Gulf while fishing for certain species of fish, during the attempt at trying to land them, we used break away sinkers that would fall off. The fish thrashing around as some do, would actually use the size of the sinker to throw the hook and loose the fish.
So a sacrificial sinker has always been something I keep in mind. With the drifting through the flooded timber and rocks, I have always rigged my stuff with like a 10lb or so sinker line that allowed the sinker to pull off easy enough to hope save the rest of my rigging.
Now I have been messing around with a new slimmer profile and one that bends easy enough to come through the cover. Slim enough I can drift through old flooded timber it has proven really good so far. I make these longer than I did in the beginning to help stop the sinker from tree limb wrapping as it pulls over and through some and then just swinging all around the next limb.
These also dry much quicker than the one's I have made with shot and braided nylon mesh. I have yet find myself in a cover they don't come right through. That ain't saying I have not lost some, but these things are really working well enough I wanted to show you guys.
The one I have shot a few pix of here is a 3oz sinker. It's 16" long and 3/16" in diameter to get this weight. With how I make these I can do these in any diameter and length, just this size right now with the depth of water I fish and the size of bait I am using has proven so far really well. With the 3oz size being more than enough for me so far, and 2oz has been the more used size here lately. I have yet to get any really good sized bait.
So I had to build a jig to make these and I bought a lot of these small brass eyes that I use to terminate them to the sinker line. Jury still out on the brass eyes at this point, I may go to a galvanized or stainless steel on the next ones, not sure yet.
Anyway, want to get any and all feed back from you guys here. My thought when I started these was like a sinking line would make a great sinker. Sinking line being like those for fly rods. With nothing but a sinking line, that thing would drift and tow or pull through pretty much anything. It's the length of those sink lines to get our bait to and keep in contact with the bottom that was the issue. So I thought why not use some lead that was smaller than most sinkers, something like really small worm weights, just a long solid bendable weight. Here is what I have so far...