pier rig

[MuskieBait]

(10-29-2012 04:04 PM)OldTimer Wrote:  Interesting thread. Gets you thinking of alternatives.

Thinking aloud as well: would ice be a suitable "release" if the coiled leader were frozen into it?....... it floats too........... placed below the balloon........... Leader could be made quite long in this.

Chunk of ice that size may take well over half an hour, or more, to melt in the lake water.

OT

See, this is why it's great to put heads together and think out loud sometimes.

Somewhere in my mind I think I've heard of this...but not sure where I've heard it and what it was used for. But yeah, that's a spanking great way for a "self release" mechanism for a long leader. The only thing I can see go wrong is if the coils of leader unfold in some random way...which could be the start of a bad tangle or a bad knot.