Irvine Lake report

[silentviper]

Originally Posted by ful-rac

The weight and release is nothing fancy, just standard. I'm running a 2lb weight with a scotty release looks like this. I am thinking of going with a 3lber, next time, the 2lber worked fine but a little extra weight would keep it more strait up and down.

Thanks i've been trying to figure out how to rig this thing on the cheap, i personally think the price of the finned downrigger weights is ridiculous. I'd imagine that you could even replace the scotty release with a modified clothespin. (maybe add some electrical tape where it clamps down, and put a piece of plastic on the end you squeeze to round it off to prevent some spin. idk just random ideas )

I've always wondered how well you could use something like this to present lures / bait to hali-s. i'd imagine kelp that you can't see would be an issue