Simple Flasher

[davidbugeja]

Me Again Guys!

After reading some old post about Flasher i decided to make my own. It is very simple really.

Materials Used:

Water Bottle
Fishing Line (7 KGs Endurance)
CD (750 MBs BENQ rofl)
Two Silver Pipes (Very Silvery)

How it was done:

I is really simple it only takes you 30 Mins to do it right. Attach the fishing line to the neck of the bottle. That should give you some extra movments even in small waves due to it's balancing.

Next attached the CD to the fishing line. About 1 Meter downwards and about 40 cms below it attach the two silver pipes. Make sure the first silver pipe is left running.

The CD should make circle turns in current and flash a lot while the bottle balancing should shake the running silver pipe making it colide with the bottom silver pipe creating vibrations.

Results:

Not yet tested. Will let you know! :friday

 

[The Killer's me]

any news?????

 

[lafona00]

Any news?

The CD may be a good idea... because of the reflective part...

Now the bottle... and without any lure??
I would be interested to understand teh result.

Arno

 

[Mr. X]

Reminds me, I finally tried one of my home-made flashers a few weeks ago.

This one is made up of several old stainless-steel spoon stems (the spoon bowls were made into flounder spoons for angling), a 6oz lead weight covered with a large luminous muppet lure and a few other random shiny fishy things I had laying around (shards of a CD with holes melted through with a soldering iron, blue-silver sweet foils, old rubber eel, etc.). I used an old orange drink bottle (flotsam) as the float and a couple of heavy duty American swivel clips (bought v. cheaply off ebay in bulk several years ago). [I prefer David's design - there is much to be said for simplicity].

Remembering our late friend, forum staff member Alison's description of using bait suspended between a weight & float to attract bass, I decided to clip the flasher to a lobster pot boy, via a short line. In truth I couldn't be bothered to drag my baited lobster pot & flasher paraphernalia out very far - I consoled myself with the knowledge that I have seen decent fish & lobster in close to shore on occasion.

Rather than wait around, I went out and had a full spearing session and carefully headed towards the lobster buoy on my return. Needless to say, no sign of fish and just a few of those pesky little red eyed black & white crabs & a blenny in the pot.

I do like the idea of flashers though - esp. the RA ones which are works of art - but perhaps better suited to large pelagic fish. For bass/mullet, perhaps a string on foil mackeral feathers suspended as described would be the cheapest/quickest approach? Alison had more luck that I, so perhaps bait is an important element (e.g. one of those little laundry net bags with a couple of mackeral heads?).

BTW grey mullet are not usually considered predators (other than of maggots perhaps) but renown bass angler Dr. Mike Ladle occasionally catches them (and Wrasse) on large bass lures - not foul hooked but in the mouth. He also catches them on custom-made spinners - albeit baited with worm. I once saw several mullet traveling with bass - apparently hunting, at least the bass were, aided by a shoal of mackeral which corralled up thousands of tiny bait fish (that looked just like shiny foil mackeral feathers) in a small bay. I've seen mullet hanging round these tiny herring(?) on other occasions too. One theory I've heard is that mullet might attack smaller fish to destroy competition rather than for food. Another theory I heard about the wrasse concerned them taking lures one particularly cold winter, presumably because food was unusually scarce (although Mike Ladle & his friends appear to catch them from time to time).