rickwalley
12-23-2001, 11:55 PM
got my two finickys and have been doing some "dry runs" in the living room to get the bugs worked out ahead of time. Everyone is right that the release off the plastic tube seems to be a bad situation. Using thoise small line marker bobbers make for a bad release, especially if the jig motor stops the arm in the upper position. you can actually tug on it and it won't come free. it will actually drag the arm down to a lower position before it lets the bobber go. Ive heard of people saying to switch to a rubbe rband for some type of release. might have some merit.possibly still use a small bobber to mark your position, but place it below the plastic tube and put a small loop of line under the rubber band? does anyone have any more feedback or solutions to this problem? walleyes wouldn't seem to like the current "hard" release. one other simple comment. for the money, you would think they could add a second small black switch to turn the light on/off, instead of having to reach up under and push/pull the light wire off/onn the terminal. also seems funny that the light is only able to be used in the two jigging modes, not the mode where the jigging is turned off. is it not possible people would fish at night but not use the jigging? fish do change and sometimes the "no jig" approach works better. there will be times when the beaver dams will outfish the finickys and there jigging. anyone with further comments on these units would be appreciated. thanks.